...Fouad Makki There is today widespread recognition that colonialism was ultimately about the institutionalization of an imaginary of profound social inequality anchored in relations of production and asymmetries of power that were justified by ideologies of racial superiority. The assertion...

... “intellectual labor power,” the process through which thought performance, which includes teaching, is commodified on the price-setting marketplace. When viewed in this light, Pierre Bourdieu's influential definitions of cultural capital will be found wanting, as they do not account for the social differences...

...Lea Bou Khater In a world dominated by neoliberalism, there is renewed attention to labor organizing and radical forms of action outside the institutional framework. In Lebanon, the October 2019 Revolution brought to the forefront the capacity of labor to recompose its power in the face of the long...

...Rusaslina Idrus The Refugee Festival opens a space for “power and hope” for refugees in Malaysia. Moving away from narratives of refugees as victims, this article highlights refugee practices of autonomy and freedom through the marginal spaces of the Refugee Festival. Within the context...

...Katherine Nelson This article offers an account of the anarchy of power in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer corpus. From this perspective, governmental power is anarchic in the twofold sense of lacking an independent legitimating foundation and being divided between ontology (what...

...Rodrigo Karmy Bolton This article argues that martyrdom carries with it a destituent power. To this end, it examines the difference between martyrdom and sacrifice in five sections. The first four discuss sacrifice in French anthropology; Bataille's proposal of an “unemployed negativity...

... nonhumans. The intricate consensus‐based decision‐making protocols that compose the Rotinonhsión:ni Confederacy's precolonial governance system likewise attest to the respect for separation that pervades all relations, as if the potential of Rotinonhsión:ni diplomacy to render sovereign power destitute had...

...William L. Van Deburg Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 No Mere Mortals: Blaek Slaves and Black Power in American Literature, 1967-80 William L. Van Deburg During the last half of the 1960s a vital segment of Black America be­ came totally disillusioned with the integrationist...

...Kaveh Ehsani This essay presents three snapshots of the historical politics of pipelines (oil, natural gas, and water) in Iran since the turn of the twentieth century in order to juxtapose the variegated power struggles around seemingly similar pieces of materials transport technology. Pipelines...

... truths, each of which claims to be the only possible truth. It is argued that these truths are products of a situated antagonistic struggle, which, rather than indicating a firm belief, are used to serve the purposes of a game of power seeking. The search for truth in the battle of good against evil...

... as at the conjuncture of two contingent events: the failure of the over four-decade search for a “left governmentality” and the renewal of “liturgical power.” The latter arises from a displacement of public opinion in liberal democracy by the fluctuations of public mood as registered on social media, with a concomitant...

... of organization and struggle. It argues that by subverting the frustration of social and geographical declassing, the Gilets Jaunes managed to constitute an unprecedented case of democratic counter-power. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Gilets Jaunes social movements counter-power...

...V. Y. Mudimbe Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 V. Y. Mudimbe The Power of the Greek Paradigm For Jacques and Claude Garelli As the Egyptians have a climate peculiar to them­ selves, and their river is different in its nature from all other rivers, so they made all their customs...

...Xudong Zhang Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Xudong Zhang The Power of Rewriting: Postrevolutionary Discourse on Chinese Socialist Realism ^Hiis essay is a criticism of criticism. It is therefore not a report on the history of Chinese socialist realism or a close reading of one...

...Anthony DeCurtis Anthony DeCurtis Introduction: The Sanctioned Power of Rock & Roll Last year a younger colleague he s 24, I m 39 asked me what I perceived to be the big­ gest changes that had taken place in Ameri­ can culture since I was in college. I entered college in 1969 need more be said...

...Carl S. Matthews Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The Decline of the Tuskegee Machine, 1915-1925: The Abdication of Political Power Carl S. Matthews Just as Tuskegee Institute was the center for conflicting theories of black education and for the uplifting of black farmers...

...David Burnett King Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Diplomacy and Power: Germany, Europe, and the Future David Burnett King Europe has undergone remarkable changes in the last decade and may be about to experience some even more remarkable. In the East, the drift toward...

...William T. Laprade Copyright © 1928 by Duke University Press 1928 THE POWER OF THE ENGLISH PRESS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY WILLIAM T. LAPRADE Duke University IN THE past generation or two, students have begun habit­ ually to use newspapers as sources for the history of the time in which...

...David C. Roller Governor O. Max Gardner: A Power in North Carolina and New Deal Washington . By Morrison Joseph L. . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1971 . Pp. xii , 323 . $10 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Book Reviews 329 In Ashby s...

...William R. Brashear Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 The Power of Negative Thinking: An Essay on Tragedy William R. Brashear I The tragedian, though never a cynic or sceptic, can be described as a negative thinker negative in a special, even perverse sense. This is a sense...