...: The State of Fiction in the Modern South . By Sullivan Walter . Mercer University Lamar Lectures, No. 18 . Athens : The University of Georgia Press , 1976 . Pp. xxiv , 81 . $6.00 . ...

...Alex Roland Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States, and the Modern Historical Experience . By Kolko Gabriel . New York : Pantheon Books , 1985 . Pp. xvi , 558 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Book Reviews 205 to Laurens from the back country in August...

... and colonization led by the overseas metropolis and then later by the administration of the Criollo -elite constructed state. Therefore, this process can also be described as criollization . The transition to colonial-modernity—the current rapid expansion of the state-business-media-Christianity front—intrudes...

... starting point for any attempt to apprehend populism as the site of an intellectual and political problem. The constitutive fashioning of the People as the legitimating source of modern, bourgeois-democratic state sovereignty intrinsically involves a process of bordering, whereby state power...

...Hassan M. Musa This account of the art exhibition literature in the Sudan reflects the complexity of modern political action there. The art exhibition was introduced by the colonial state as an instrument of propaganda. Post-independence authorities continued in a similar direction. Modern...

... of state, nation, society, and people as referent objects through which concrete form is given to factical finitude, modern biopolitics of security and war exemplify the political eschatology of modern times. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S T the D A Y Michael Dillon Specters...

...Lee Spinks The concept of the “state of exception,” which is so crucial to Giorgio Agamben's claim for the continuity between the ancient founding of the polity and modern biopolitics, enables us to rethink more local and specified historical and aesthetic changes. By examining the genre...

...Elizabeth Harney This essay looks at the career of pioneering Senegalese painter Iba N'Diaye and his relation to now well-established narratives of modernism in Senegal. Typical accounts of the mid-twentieth century equate the modern with the cultural patronage, Négritude writings, and state...

... Security.” Al-Akhbar English, December 2. httpenglish.al-akhbar.com /node/2178. Brown, Wendy. 1995. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Burke, Roland. 2006. “‘The Compelling Dialogue of Freedom’: Human Rights at the Bandung...

... invulnerability is a symptom of the deeply embedded belief in security that has shaped modern discourses on subjectivity tout court. Rejecting this representation, this essay argues that the United States is not a subject that aspires to security but one that is convinced only of its radical vulnerability. Rather...

... that the claims staked by Western oil companies to the entire subterranean sphere involved a configuration of sovereignty in which the states in question were alienated from the resources of value. This hollow form of sovereignty had corollaries on the territorial level where oil companies promoted sectarianism...

... in the state of nature that continues to persist in the feral space between nation states (and that flares up in times of war). It is into the modern apparatus of security and the earliest stirrings of a sense for the experiential costs of its “checks and balances” that we should place the figure...

... within the Kurdish liberation movement in the 1990s, we interpret democratic autonomy as a new methodology that weds decolonization and national liberation with a strong critique of the state form and patriarchal capitalist modernity. We then discuss autonomy and democracy as distinct yet related moments...

...Veena Dubal As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged human bodies and economies across the world, millions of app-deployed drivers in the United States—primarily immigrants and subordinated racial minorities—faced a dangerous and perplexing paradox created by law. Simultaneously treated as independent...

... delves into Ottoman-era Turkish-style colonization, elucidating the displacement strategies employed by the Ottoman state. The study underscores the delayed integration of the colonialism concept into the Kurdish intellectual framework, shedding light on the challenges faced by the oppressed...

..., Politics as a Vocation, is entirely inscribed within this theoretical framework, which constructed the state as the insurmountable horizon of political modernity.7 Less than a decade later, against the background of the great legal and political discussions on the Weimar democratic constitution...

...? If the purpose was to look for an onto- logical basis for politics beyond (that is, before) that of the conception of the modern state, or if, to use an academic characterization, Schmitt looked for an existential comprehension beyond that of the identification of the state with the mere law, then the attempt...

... the second element in Article 9(2), known as the forum externum, is where the outward expression of this belief is subject to state regulation. (Note its consonance with the early modern distinction 4  The South Atlantic Quarterly • Winter 2014 laid out by Hunter.) Integral to this formulation...

.... The modern secular state rests on no substantive values. It lacks full legiti- macy even of the sort that Saint Paul ascribed to the ‘‘powers that be be- cause it exists mainly to uphold the market system, which is an ordering...

... among appropriation, division, and distribution—that simply begs for elaboration. The modern state has a decisive relation to accumulation, in this case 188 Kenneth Surin capitalist accumulation—indeed, modern states have to ensure some kind of accumulation as a condition of continued...