... is developed and new paradigms, such as that of reparative reading, emerge from theory's deep engagement with the pressures and the tragedies of gay lives. Race has come to be understood as much more complicated than early theorizations realized, and the problems of theorizing power and possibilities...

... 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...

... protestor resentment stoked by Trump’s US “maximum pressure” policies. A massive blast in Beirut’s port in August 2020 ended any lingering hope for reform and prompted Macron to personally unveil a stabilization plan through IMF neoliberal reforms, a carrot to Trump’s stick. The essay concludes that, one...

... regarding the singular characteristics of crip time as it is lived by the author, herself a mentally disabled faculty member. Building on the scholarship of disability, queer, and ethnic studies scholars, it explores fraught concepts such as the pressure to pass for neurotypical, societal expectations...

... and evade taxes. Market pressure is also enforced by its inclusion, with other productive goals such as service fluidity and quality, into a digital model of management inspired by lean production. The application is configured to operate as a device of technical and hegemonic control that incorporates just...

...Shaun Myers This essay traces how a range of black cultural producers in the post–civil rights era represent and contest the transhistorical phenomenon I term imperative time , the dominant construction of time within racial capitalism as a demand or pressure exerted on black life. More...

... to characterize the entrepreneurial horizon at a given moment in history and 2) those organized around a dialectics of sovereignty, around the entrepreneur's claim to a power or stature usually reserved for the “Great,” controversial founders of states. These lines of inquiry matter for the way they put pressure...

... strategy is not necessarily to enforce a boycott but to create a vibrant public discussion about Israeli policies against the Palestinians. The legislative power of the Israeli position is compared with the much weaker force of international pressure that the Palestinian population can bring to bear. Yet...

... react to the intensifying pressure of “pipeline politics” on their daily lives? In the Chicago case, at least some of them have responded with grassroots mobilization, cultural engagement, and the timid beginnings of institutional transformation. The interplay between community activists threatened...

... experienced their first significant gains. This article identifies, describes, and analyzes the emergence of a cinema-labor cycle in São Paulo (1977–82) that constitutes a key instance of Brazil’s “deferred 1968”: a complex response to the distinct pressures of a repressive military regime, entrenched...

... pressures and structural crises the country faces. While the Right mobilizes racial melancholia to conjure up the stability of the past, significant segments of the political spectrum—including the Left—have long been demobilized by the stranglehold of a form of tragic optimism produced by a post-1991...

... to Congress, their occupations and group connections, the interests and pressures in their constituencies, the interests and pres­ sures operating through the organized lobbies and outside the organ­ ized lobbies, the interests and pressures operating through the parties and outside the parties...

... Duke University Press UNCORRECTED PROOFS Voices from the Refaat Alareer Encampment Palestine Activism at Ghent University 435 tiny, as well as sustained pressure by the students to ensure that the university be made transparent and held accountable. Nonetheless, pressuring the university...

... religious repression have syn­ chronized with periodic offensive movements on the economic front. Whenever the movement toward complete Commun­ ism is most actively pushed religious intolerance and persecu­ tion flames up. Whenever economic pressure is eased there ensues a period of relaxation of anti...

... There are, consequently, two problems on this side of the new his­ toricist agenda: the tendency to substitute for a questionable notion of history an unquestioned notion of context; and a tendency to privi­ lege the social pressures upon the text rather than the pressures the text itself exerts on cultural practice...

... that we observe in real zebras developed along different ancestral lineages, accumulated in the population under the action of different selection pressures, in a process that was com­ pletely dependent on specific (and contingent) historical details. In other words, just as these traits (camouflage...

... that exerted by any other pressure group or institution. The external forces operating on the majority party in Congress to the enactment, the modification, or to prevent the enactment of legislation, were unbelievably power­ ful, with the Administration serving as the primary source. Other sources...

... primarily by the pressure of population upon the means of subsistence. Fourth, man can improve his lot in propor­ tion as he defers marriage until he is able to support a family. Fifth, man will defer marriage and avoid the burdens of too large a family only in proportion as he is inspired with pru­ dence...

... analysis and education, and partially on the voracity of the unions themselves, meaning both the leader­ ship and the rank and file. What purposes, I have been asked, underlie such imprac­ tical suggestions as these? I hope, in the short term, primarily to reduce the pressures leading to cost-push...

... and active pressure group in America? Conversely, how could Woodrow Wilson and the American government justify participation in a war that would perpetuate British control over a nation clamoring for independence? The answer to this apparent dilemma was immediate settlement of the Irish problem. Here would...