...Bruce Buchan This paper explores the figurative significance of Niccolò Machiavelli's lurid account in The Prince of the death scene of Remirro de Orco in Cesena in 1502. This death scene represents a fundamental challenge to the ancient metaphor of the body politic whose health consisted...

...Oliver Marchart This essay explores the consequences of a recent development in political thought: the differentiation between the concepts of politics and the political (in French, la politique and le politique ) as it emerged in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Claude Lefort...

...Barnor Hesse Modern political theory has traditionally exorcised the meaning of black politics from its conceptual landscape. The poststructuralist distinction between politics and the political potentially offers radical possibilities for thinking against this. Its emphasis on contingency...

...David J. Garrow Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior . By Walton Hanes Jr. Albany : State University of New York Press , 1985 . Pp. xxii , 366 . Cloth $36.50 , paper $12.95 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 3io The South Atlantic Quarterly The richest...

...Ethel Wolfskill Hedlin Black Political Parties: An Historical and Political Analysis . By Walton Hanes Jr. New York : The Free Press , 1972 . Pp. 276 . $7.95 . Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 276 The South Atlantic Quarterly Black Political Parties...

...J. Patrick Dobel Mail-Order Ethics: Reflections on Irresponsible Political Contributions and the Politics They Finance J. Patrick Dobel Taut jeremiads of imminent moral collapse or moral tyranny accompanied by lurid descriptions of intractable enemies, vicious practices, or far-flung conspiracies...

...Lewis Bowman Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Political Stability, Political Conflict, and Methodological Artifacts Lewis Bowman I Despite repeated deviations at the polls, Southern voters have been reluctant to change their attachments from the Democratic party...

...- nist ideology, of course, but it did recognize opportunities when it saw them. Having been compromised by its association with white supremacy, business needed to quell the rambunctious organs of civil society, to de- politicize the political economy, particularizing and institutionalizing...

...Peter Hitchcock Duke University Press 2007 Peter Hitchcock Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation One of the basic problems of postcolonial analy- sis is a failure to appreciate the varied time/space...

...Leszek Koczanowicz Duke University Press 2007 Leszek Koczanowicz Politicizing Weather: Two Polish Cases of the Intersection between Politics and Weather Politics and Weather: The Revenge of the Natural The banal truth is that we human...

... and the state of liberal identity politics for gay men in the United States. Avoiding subjective and psychological approaches to viral sex, this essay addresses viral sex in terms of the political economy of liberalism and biopower, featuring a discussion of Michel Foucault's late work on homosexuality and its...

... University Press 2008 Alex Lubin “We are all Israelis”: The Politics of Colonial Comparisons ​In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, Ameri- cans sought to understand how...

... governance, or tribal sovereignty, as well as on subsistence rights, a particularly urgent issue because many Alaska Natives remain dependent on subsistence practices for survival. Consequently, Alaska Native politics since ANCSA has centered on campaigns for sovereignty and subsistence rights. Despite...

... called U.S. political romanticism. This romanticism envisions a highly functional form of inclusive political deliberation that is now absent from U.S. political life and which Obama seemed to enable by telling the truth in public about complicated private states of feeling. Obama's mishandling...

... mis- carriage and the antiabortion movement. In the United States, where abor- tion is intensely politicized and the Christian Right is a readily identified and powerful political force, the iconographies of the right-­to-­life and pro-­ choice movements are more ubiquitous and recognizable than...

... aren’t respon- sible for politics. We are the general antagonism to politics looming out- side every attempt to politicize, every imposition of self-­governance, every sovereign decision and its degraded miniature, every emergent state and home sweet home. We are disruption and consent...

...Grupo Acontecimiento Through an exposition of three key reactions to the growing pull of electoral phenomena in Argentina, Grupo Acontecimiento gives itself the challenge of answering the question of how it might be possible to operate politically within a space where political action...

...Roland Denis Moving beyond the well-worn evaluations of the Venezuelan political situation (for or against Hugo Chávez), this essay sets out to describe the various currents and positions within the Bolivarian camp as well as its increasingly uncertain future in the electoral realm. Roland Denis...

... of exploitation. Mainstream macroeconomics represents the watershed changes in world capitalism in the 1970s as due to technical improvements in economic theory and policy, thereby obscuring the underlying political economy of those changes. Globalized financial capitalism eliminated upward wage pressures...

...Kaushik Sunder Rajan In this essay, I explore how the contemporary global terrain of drug development is constituted by different logics of crisis. I explore this terrain through an empirical focus on pharmaceutical logics and politics in the United States and India today, which are constituted...