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... Boyle Privatize Now! Ask Questions Later: UCMeP’s Unauthorized Performance of Administrative Authority Sproul Plaza. The birthplace of the free speech movement. The plaza steps were made famous by Mario Savio’s legendary “Bodies upon the gears” speech in 1964.1...

...Lisa Adkins In a context of wage repression, indebted labor, and a pervasive gap between what labor earns and what it needs to spend, in this essay I ask: what are post-Fordist wages? I suggest that the key features of the post-Fordist wage should be understood in terms of broad transformations...

... mobilizes both a critical perspective on neoliberalism and a transformative prospective. It allows us to both acknowledge and go beyond a concern with inequities of power, which so strongly signal an expectation of negativity and lack of social justice, to ask how the notion of precarious bodies might...

... itself cannot contain. We ask if we might conceive music as a mode of criminality opposed to the violence and discipline imposed upon the body by capital. We look to understand capitalism by situating the plantation system at its center. We ask what sort of place our listening takes place in and how...

... forces. With the active involvement of corporate partners, administrations are striving to commercialize, vocationalize, and militarize both curriculum and student culture itself. Furthermore, the role of higher education in sharply intensified exploitation means that we have to ask the same question...

..., or political systems? Authors of climate fiction show that environmental futures depend on our ability to renegotiate the limit between the “realistic” and the inconceivable, the boundary that strategically constrains our imagination and that limits social and environmental progress. How, authors ask, thereby...

...Aida Hussen This essay explores the psychic dimensions of post-civil rights black representation. I ask, what kinds of desire and identification, what vision of history and futurity, and what lost objects and forms of grief, drive nationalist approaches to black literature? In turn, what affective...

...Paul Gilroy This piece contrasts two periods of rioting in Britain that were thirty years apart. It asks how the 2011 riots might be “read” as expressing aspects of the country’s neoliberal transformation. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Apple Raymond W. 1981 . “ New...

...Tommaso Fattori When the economic and financial storm broke, the Italian government asked the collectivity to come together to defend capital and the international financial powers by satisfying their thirst for privatization. The government plan was to sell off the country’s common patrimony...

... have to ask ourselves whether racism has really declined with color blindness or whether color blindness might be neoliberalism’s corollary. The article examines how color-blind ideologies naturalized racial inequality, allowing the process of predatory lending to be understood as class based and made...

... on the political technologies that drive policy protocols of “integration” and “social diversity” and arrange the parameters of differential inclusion within which the business of privatization of real estate and social housing unfolds. It also asks how cultural, political, and social contestations develop...

... the ways the corridor economy model is being projected as the future of development. In so doing, the article positions this model as a neoliberal institution that marks new frontiers of capital and asks how the struggles crisscrossing the spaces of the DMIC reveal the paradoxical and heterogeneous...

...Bettina Wagner; Anke Hassel This article analyzes the challenges of labor migration for both capital and labor within the European Union (EU). It asks how, in a country with traditionally strong unions and employers’ associations, it has been possible to create and maintain a segment in the labor...

...Marieke de Goede This article examines the trial of former Goldman Sachs employee Fabrice Tourre, who was held liable for securities fraud in 2013, and asks what it tells us about postcrisis understanding of politics and critique. What does it mean to hold Tourre individually liable amid...

... the event is categorized as a Native American experience. The issue of climate change is a human issue that all cultures face. I ask readers to immerse themselves in the landscape and consider the unique relationship my people have always had with the natural world. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

..., whose iconography has been adapted to different, and sometimes conflicting, political agendas over five decades, from a talisman of “joy-mad” race consolidation against Jim Crow in the mid-1930s to a totem for color-blind racial transcendence in the post–civil rights moment of the mid-1980s. Asking how...

...Stephanie Li In the 1997 essay “Home,” Toni Morrison explores her attempt to create “race-specific, race-free language,” asking “How to enunciate race while depriving it of its lethal cling?” I propose that Morrison's conception of language that encodes race without racism represents a new way...

...David Buckland; Olivia Gray; Lucy Wood This is not a conventional essay and climate change is not a conventional subject. The issue's editors asked David Buckland and colleagues to “discuss the intersection of art and climate change science and specifically the Cape Farewell project's approach...

..., geological proponents of the Anthropocene, the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and the indigenous members of the Karrabing Film Collective. The essay asks, even as anthropogenic climate change and toxicity have created revolutionary ethical, political, and conceptual problems and antagonisms, what...

... as a source of energy and legitimation for the deregulatory, promarket reforms of neoliberal capitalism, with its valorization of market mechanisms (such as wage labor and micro-credit) that have harnessed the dream of women's emancipation to the engine of capitalist accumulation. I conclude by asking how...