...Kenneth Surin 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Kenneth Surin Getting the Picture: Donald Davidson on Robert Morris’s Blind Time Drawings IV (Drawing with Davidson...

... non-European and non-Western components from its modern discourse. In this article, several drawings and paintings of the modern Egyptian artist Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar are discussed. The core of the discussion, however, centers on four of al-Gazzar's surrealist drawings that also include surrealist...

... You Draw the Line? Present-day Israel is not a democratic state. During the past five years, we have witnessed increasing nationalism, the silencing of political minorities, the media, and civic organizations, and the approval of antidemocratic laws. What started in 1967 as the sin...

...Christine Sun Kim; Amanda Cachia In Six Types of Waiting in Berlin , Christine Sun Kim’s drawings provide a fascinating constellation of cultural and sensorial experiences with time. Originally from the United States, the artist shares her account of how time (and waiting) is measured differently...

... of pen-and-ink drawings by Ibrahim El Salahi, the pioneer Sudanese modernist painter who was imprisoned in the mid-1970s during the regime of military dictator Gaafar Nimeiri (1969–85). The essay provides a critical reading of these drawings in light of El Salahi's own unpublished memoir detailing...

...Mashuq Kurt This article examines the intricacies involved in the process of decolonizing education. It draws on the author's first‐hand teaching experiences and observations as an activist scholar and a critical pedagogue at Bingöl University in Turkey from 2013 to 2016, during a period marked...

... was and is that of freedom, of subjects released unto their own making. Choice, I argue, operates within this frame to demarcate cultures of constraint versus those of freedom, and challenges strict notions of safety and risk. Drawing on research in Australia and Hong Kong, it appears that within very different contexts...

...Dara E. Goldman Recent events have led critics to speculate about whether “everything changed” in the wake of 9/11. Drawing on the work of Giorgio Agamben, this essay examines current rhetoric and practices in both the United States and Cuba. The U.S.-Cuban relationship, especially as manifested...

...Alex Lubin Drawing on the work of Benedict Anderson and Edward Said, this essay analyzes the ubiquity of comparisons in American Orientalist culture. As the United States gained territory through settler colonial expansion, it often rendered its acquisition meaningful through comparisons...

... to frequent institutional reviews, writing programs are often expected to defend their academic practices from the advice of reviewers whose commonsense understanding of writing eschews process and practice in favor of product. Drawing on several reviews of the program in which they teach, the authors argue...

... through which reflexivity and debate helped spawn new and essential dialogues on the cultural politics of the nation-state and national identity. Drawing inspiration from the powerful intellectual vision of the late Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, “What's Left of the Left?” elucidates the predominant debates within...

...Salah M. Hassan This essay highlights the selective ways in which the conflict in Darfur has been presented, represented, and used by a range of actors in and outside of Sudan to promote their own agendas and interests. It draws attention to the urgency of apprehending the politics...

.... Drawing on Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub's powerful articulations of Marxism, political economy, leadership, and labor theories, Adlan addresses the rich experiences of the SCP in its relentless efforts at beating the odds of conservative politics. His misgivings about the SCP at the time of his resignation embody...

... of national liberation. This text draws attention to the importance of the independent application of Marxism as an approach to development, rather than as a fixed or absolute text, and speaks poignantly to colonialism and post-independence politics and decadence and the major stumbling blocks on the path...

...Joseph U. Garang In this 1971 essay, Joseph Garang, a leading Sudanese Marxist intellectual and activist in the 1960s and early 1970s, makes a case for a united Sudan. He draws from the wealth of Marxist theory to elucidate the political economy of power and marginality that undergirds the ethnic...

...Brian Goldstone; Stanley Hauerwas Drawing inspiration from Pierre Hadot and Ludwig Wittgenstein, in whose writings have been discerned a philosophical therapeutics oriented toward the cultivation of a distinctive sensibility and manner of apprehension, this essay inquires into the kinds...

...,” and debating how we might develop a committed anthropology that is aware of its ability to disseminate powerful encounters with otherness within but also beyond the academy. The essay largely draws on published works, but reflections are also prompted by experiences at an academic conference as well...

... homeland security border checkpoint between the United States, Canada, and the Mohawk Nation, titled The Third Bank of the River , draws on the Guswentah or Two Row Wampum underscoring the problematic yet ongoing assertion of Haudenosaunee sovereignty. A link is made between the work of these artists...

... the scholarship by showing that sexual norms critically shape where and how states draw distinctions between legal and illegal status. In Ireland at the turn of the millennium, pregnant migrants were constructed as paradigmatic figures of illegal immigration, whose arrival and childbearing were to be prevented...

... that structure university life. Focusing in particular on the reclamation of Wheeler Hall on November 20, 2009, the essay draws out the relatively mundane acts of care that both enabled the occupation of Wheeler Hall and that extended, in various ways, the duration and oppositional force of this event. The essay...