...Jerry Herron Duke University Press 2007 Jerry Herron Detroit: Disaster Deferred, Disaster in Progress Just Like Home We love a parade—Americans do—and anni- versaries and special days and “festival” occa...

...Eric Cazdyn Duke University Press 2007 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Eric Cazdyn Disaster, Crisis, Revolution ​Disaster is everywhere and touches everything...

...Isobel S. Frye Duke University Press 2007 Isobel S. Frye When Disaster Is a Bureaucrat We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all...

...Imre Szeman Duke University Press 2007 Imre Szeman System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster Siri sipped at her coffee. “I would have thought that your Hegemony was far beyond a petroleum economy...

...Walter Kalaidjian Duke University Press 2007 Walter Kalaidjian Incoming: Globalization, Disaster, Poetics After 9/11, no key terms would appear more opposed yet also more intimately related to each other than...

...Fredric Jameson 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Fredric Jameson The Dialectics of Disaster Looking back at September  discloses a dis...

...Evgeny Dobrenko Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Evgeny Dobrenko The Disaster of Middlebrow Taste, or, Who Invented Socialist Realism? We have enough of that sort of book, Signed with other people s names, This will be ours, and about us. But what is ours ? What...

...William Thomas Laprade Copyright © 1919 by Duke University Press 1919 Democracy or Disaster William Thomas Laprade Trinity College I It is well to be frank with ourselves about the prospect before us. The future holds out a sort of inevitableness from which we cannot escape, and some...

.... The editing is painstaking scholarship at its best. DUKE UNIVERSITY GEORGE W. WILLIAMS The Imagination of Disaster: Evil in the Fiction of Henry James. By J. A. Ward. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961. Pp. 185. $3.00. For so long we were offered studies of Henry James s technique and form...

...: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism.” Feminist Studies 28 , no. 2 : 336 – 60 . Warner Michael . 2005 . Publics and Counterpublics . New York : Zone Books . Maria Cotera “Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster”: Feminist Archival Praxis after the Digital Turn...

...Alan K. Manchester Book Reviews Shipwreck and Empire. Being an account of Portuguese maritime disasters in a century of decline. By James Duffy. Cambridge: Har­ vard University Press, 1955. Pp. vii, 198. $4.00. Although shipwreck was an obvious hazard from the outset of Portu­ guese expansion down...

..., but emancipatory rhetoric, too, has tended to cede to sentimental gesture and gesticulation, even though it benefits from the backwind of the disasters that were wrought by the Washington consensus. Moreover, the aggressive neoliberal discourse of the 1980s and 1990s conjured up a revival of nineteenth-century...

... solutions to the debt crisis cannot stand. Finally, disaster relief is provided primarily in the form of interest-bearing loans rather than grants. A debt strike is therefore also a climate strike. References Food and Agriculture Organization . 2010 . “ Fighting Poverty and Hunger .” www.fao.org...

... justice. This devastation was not, I argue, simply a product of a natural disaster: instead, shortsighted, corrupt, and racist policies in New Orleans prepared the terrain for the suffering that followed the storm. The still-unfolding tragedy in New Orleans thus demonstrates the extent to which human...

... of human tragedy. Aid workers now grapple with the politics of mounting disaster relief over the long haul. This speculative essay explores what happens when a crisis does not end. I ask, when does rupture become structure? How do the temporal terms crisis, temporariness, the indefinite, and permanency...

... to metabolize this new relation to the world, this new sensitivity to potential disasters. Biopolitics of catastrophe has two modes: (1) an averting mode , whose goal is to avert events in advance, and (2) a regulating mode , whose function is to erase events after the fact. Grounded on this perverted...

... they do possess over the translation from catastrophic event to social disaster. Strange Disastrous Accumulation  771 as it might sound, the appeal to natural causation, insofar as it posits an autonomous, wholly external nature, defined...

... struggled to make sense of a situation that exposed the deep racial divide that exists in the United States, as well as the overt racism that underlay the federal government’s reluctant response to the disaster. This essay articulates the series of dislocations that occurred within national...

... cities such as Jaffa, Ramleh, and Lydda and geographical regions such as “the triangle” and zones of the West Bank and Gaza Strip), many of which still exist today. There, for years to come, those expelled were exposed to the accumulating consequences of a regime-made disaster. The constant...

... Street, on native land and the burial grounds of black slaves, Jarrar s enactment of the quantifica- tion of disaster capitalism literalizes the question of the worth of life, of life itself as a commodity, through the worth of human blood. This brilliant conceptualization of the value of Palestinian...