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... sharply circumscribed by their acceptance of the color line and their colonialist blindness. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Hilton Obenzinger Naturalizing Cultural Pluralism, Americanizing Zionism: The Settler Colonial Basis to Early-Twentieth- Century Progressive Thought...

... as the three-part strategy of social movements in deploying traditional political forums and mechanisms, illegal occupation, and contestation in courts of law. Access to common goods such as water, culture, and nature is fundamental to human life, and yet such access continues to be threatened by privatization...

... ontology that assumes radical immanence, as well as a mind-body and nature-culture continuum. This implies that the posthuman knowing subject has to be understood as a relational, situated, and accountable entity. This article explores these key ideas by tracing a cartography of the different generations...

... orders of time and ways of seeing nature. This alternative notion of home recognizes the ongoing force of multiple indigenous cultures that dictated that we will encounter that particular nature and that already imaged imagining amid colonizing and nationalizing practices that include the making...

... in shaping social life. Taking account of this part-culture quality of evental universalisms allows for a more complex account of the nature of radical cultural transformation than one finds in the new philosophical literature on Paul. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Joel Robbins Anthropology...

...Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf In the thought of the late secretary-general of the Sudanese Communist Party, Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, the intricacies of culture and politics are deftly interwoven in a thorough ethnographic and philosophical critique of state and society. Mahgoub's wide-ranging writings...

... of subjectivity, operating in a feedback loop as sites of cultural and economic reproduction, and being shaped by, while simultaneously shaping, the entrepreneurial cul- tures of our times. The competitive, entrepreneurial nature of the educational structures discussed above also appears in new forms...

... objects might be said to represent in their associative constructions. No matter the artifact he was “reading,” Hall's usual interpretive move was a relational one. In this essay, I explore the metaphorical nature of that relation, drawing parallels between Hall's own method of cultural analysis and those...

... talk to ourselves as if we were talking to someone else. What could be more natural? Cutting through the overlapping but divergent evolution of Homo sapiens as biological organisms and as cultural beings, our semiotic, linguistic, and symbolic capacities underwrite Santayana’s nat- uralistic...

... and uncertainty for journalists, intersecting with neoliberal enterprise culture and the spread of digital technologies to promote an ideology that masks the precarious nature of contemporary media work. The article considers the work of freelance journalists in historical context and argues that the discourse...

... 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...

... a less central role in theory than it used to, except in the form of trauma theory, whose pertinence to a host of contemporary issues continues to be d emonstrated. Questions about the nature of identity seem to have receded, as Rei Terada points out, doubtless because theoretical debates have led...

...Gregory Tomso The emergence of intentionally unsafe sex—“viral sex”—among men who have sex with men has led to the emergence of several new sexual identities, including barebackers, bug chasers, gift givers, and virus breeders, and it raises pressing questions about the nature of sexual freedom...

... organic and conventionally farmed foods, as well as the larger (possibly untenable) distinctions between nature and culture. Finally, the essay expands into a larger frame of debate to consider the way in which contamination inflects the national discourse on immigration. © 2008 Duke University Press...

... of industrial poultry farming. Both the risk of a transspecies outbreak of high pathogen avian flu and the measures promised to ensure our safety in such a crisis are culturally constructed, reflecting the racialized, scientized, and commodified nature of contemporary chicken farming. © 2008 Duke University...

..., the deterrent consequences of a sentence of death will outweigh the punishment's deleterious consequences from a utilitarian perspective; and so on. Yet, even the most cursory examination of the cultural, legal, and political roles of capital punishment as it is actually institutionalized...

..., and extinction and the catastrophic imaginary. Bruce Braun is a professor of geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture, and Power on Cana- da’s West Coast (2002) and coeditor of Social Nature: Theory, Practice and Poli- tics (2001...

.../ . Helmrich Stephen . 2011 . “ Nature/Culture/Seawater .” American Anthropologist 113 : 132 – 44 . Hu Yingyao Yao Jiaxiong . 2019 . “ Illuminating Economic Growth .” IMF Working Papers . April 9 . imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/04/09/Illuminating-Economic-Growth-46670...

... Elizabeth . 2015 . “Biomimicry: New Natures for and against Capital.” Theory, Culture, Society 32 : 61 – 81 . Graham Stephen . 2010 . Cities under Siege: The New Military Urbanism . London : Verso . Griffney Noreen Hird Myra J. , eds. 2008 . Queering the Nonhuman...

... from preclass to class society does not so much create as modify or intensify a condition of nature/culture that is already there, already in place. And this instability in his analysis means that the exact relations of class to gender cannot be specified. Volosinov s argument is more specific...