... to commemorate the Nakba and to accentuate and reaffirm Palestinian indigeneity. It concludes by arguing that this kind of cultural struggle complements, rather than demotes, the national struggle. Indeed, at times and on the face of it, this kind of struggle has a chance of prevailing given the lack of interest...

... . Teatro Valle Occupato. La rivolta Culturale dei Beni Comuni . Rome : Derive Approdi . AGAINST the DAY The Commons Movement in Italy Saki Bailey, Editor AGAINST the DAY Ugo Mattei Protecting the Commons: Water, Culture, and Nature: The Commons Movement...

...June Wang; Xinyue Yu This essay explores the three currents of user-generated content (UGC) platform development in China: one is full of improvised endeavors in the cultural production through amateur creativity; one is featured with affective laboring and networking by prosumers, who struggle...

... a public culture that accommodates innovation and renewal in transforming a society shredded by exploitative discriminatory practices, and the struggle for the reinforcement of a vision of liberation more expansive than the one presented in the nationalist discourse, which Mahgoub critiqued as forlorn...

...Nükhet Sirman; Feyza Akınerdem This article proposes an allegorical reading of a Turkish TV serial to allow an assessment of the politico-cultural atmosphere of the ephemeral present. This present is defined as a world of post-truth where competing universalisms produce a condition of antithetical...

...Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf In a sociopolitical and cultural context like that of Sudan, where forces of militarist, Islamist, and traditionalist politics persist with tenacity, chronicling the politics and intellectual legacy of Sudanese Marxism is a must for apprehending both its historiography...

... American Freedom Struggle . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . Reed T. V. 2019 . The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present . 2nd ed. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Ruddock Andy . 2001 . Understanding...

... with their destabilizing and nonbinary gender/sexual identities, political struggles against heteronormativity and homonormativity, and recalcitrant demands for creating safe public spaces of performative, intimate, and challenging visibility. State homophobia manifest itself as a response to the students’ demands...

... subjectivity, I explore why the audiovisual struggle over abortion rights may require additional empha- sis on showing. Contemporary Abortion Narratives Popular culture has largely banished unsensational stories about abortion from the fictional worlds of film and television. When Obvious Child came...

..., and practices of collective bargaining. The composition, dynamics, and internal life of this uprising provides a model for the revival of the US labor movement, which revolves around economic, political, and cultural democracy more than collective bargaining per se. As the labor movement struggles to shape...

... the limited living space and time to create and remix culturally diversified repertoires in struggles. Class analysis, as a weapon of progressive social change, has to be recast in the lived experience of the working class, in relation to party-state rhetoric. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013...

... impunity and dominance displayed by the high-profile cases of direct repression (Ward Churchill, Norman Finkelstein, and Joseph Massad, for starters), administrations are increasingly united by a sense of common culture and purpose—that purpose being a struggle with faculty culture and a desire...

... theorists, this notion captured the distinctive character of “postsocialist” struggles, which often took the form of identity politics, aimed more at valorizing cultural difference than at promoting economic equality. Whether the question was care work, sexual violence, or gender dis- parities...

... to Hirsch s concept of literacy is a view of culture removed from the dynamics of struggle and power. Culture is seen as the to­ tality of language practices of a given nation and merely presents itself for all to participate in. Not unlike Bloom s position, Hirsch s view of culture expresses a single...

... and more from what is often termed ‘‘the Chinese situation’’ or ‘‘Chinese reality The terrain of cultural struggle for Chinese intellectuals in the s has thus been structured not only by China’s burgeoning capitalist-oriented econ...

... language, ethnicity, and culture make them alien to South Africa; yet they are precisely those who historically supported the anti-apartheid struggle. In this (ongoing) modality, South Africa’s exceptionalism resembles noth- ing so much as its U.S. corollary, where the exceptional, dominant interna...

... and political struggles, which were particu­ larly central to Marxist strategy during the era of the Third International, become blurred; indeed cultural struggles also overlap substantially with both the economic and the political. To consider biopolitical struggles in this way does not mean that we can...

... for a multiplicity of political, eco- nomic, and cultural struggles. Indeed, the very struggle may be an occasion and source for solidarity. Contemporary cosmopolitanism is the latest effort to revitalize liberal- 9 ism. It has much to recommend it. Aside from world peace and more diverse ethnic...

... story of struggle, not yet won, for individual rights; and it found its strange literary form in an age of experiment that demanded he in­ vent his own. The form he invented is at once the representation of a culture he thought to be in fragments and an offering of hope for a different kind of future...

... drastically oversimplified. He lived, so writers on his society insisted, in a hunting and warring culture, struggling for his existence, hardening himself day by day, seeing the future only in terms of the present, making intuitive, instinctive judg­ ments; he was essentially an individualist, yet a believer...