..., as aberrant to Western liberal democracy. Subsequently appropriated by civil rights and anticolonial movements, such pragmatic appropriations often unwittingly colluded in reinscribing the concept of racism as representational rather than performative, antiliberal rather than liberal, and ideological rather...

...Talia Schaffer The feminist philosophy of “ethics of care” has been important for disability studies inasmuch as it helps us see caregiving as widespread and admirable, rather than as a failure of autonomy. Care ethicists usually imagine care as either an institutional situation or an intimate dyad...

... to faculty members who over time have demonstrated meritorious work in their specific fields of expertise. The proliferation of post-tenure reviews, however, suggests another model at work: academic freedom as grounded in free market principles rather than on long-term merit. The changes marked...

... aggressive, less thesis-driven, less angst-ridden style of critique that would seek to repair the damage of homophobia and other forms of prejudice and violence rather than simply revealing allegedly new and ever more insidious forms of abuse in rather unlikely places. One instance where she might prove...

...William Haver Throughout all of Michel Foucault’s work there is an uncompromising, albeit tacit, refusal to posit “society” as an object of knowledge and control. Rather, there emerges in various texts a thought of the common as the object of sense rather than of cognition. This essay attempts...

...Margaret Price Focusing on the theme of “slowness,” this article demonstrates that an individualized approach to access in university life worsens inequity rather than alleviating it. It introduces the concept of the “accommodations loop,” through which slow systems and processes impede access...

... in “routes” rather than “roots” and in the traffic between cultural studies and “critical” human geography. Drawing on a selection of Hall's work and a number of published interviews, the essay reflects on several moments of traffic and interchange. The discussion is partial and personal, rather than...

... integral is displaced in favor of the ways in which geographical and political binaries extend each other, albeit with marked power differentials, into incompleteness. So, instead of the South embodying specific capacities, enclosures, ontologies, and potentials, it is rather its various tracks...

...Willy Thayer In posthumous speculation, the 2019 Chilean revolt, rather than suggesting a limit to the neoliberal trace, seems to constitute a reset that is conducive to its deployment. This article develops a “second degree” reading in which it is no longer a matter of the antagonism between...

...Jennifer C. Nash; Samantha Pinto In this introduction, we reconsider how we can tell the stories of Black feminist thought and institutional feminist study through uncertainty and incommensurability rather than clear reproducibility of good and bad objects. We then consider the speculative place...

... execution in the United States in 1930), the public had to imagine, rather than witness directly, the death sentences carried out by its government. This essay argues that, in fact, the public did not imagine such concealed violence—that instead, one witnesses a narrative turn away from direct...

...Adam Thurschwell Capital punishment has been analyzed in recent Anglo-American jurisprudence as a problem of moral rather than political philosophy—as a question of when, if ever, the heinousness of a crime justifies the imposition of death as a matter of retributive justice; when, if ever...

.... The essay charts the critique of the “Declaration” by the Association of American Colleges (AAC). The AAC, an organization of administrators rather than faculty, laid the groundwork for the tenure system as it exists today. It outlined the seven-year probationary period that would precede tenure...

... of intensified deportations, border militarization, and congressional posturing on immigration reform; the undocumented migrant is no longer the anonymous dishwasher or nanny in hiding but rather appears as the highly publicized face of the “illegal alien.” On the other hand, this is a time of increased...

... “rational and maximizing” in the present cultural-capital economy of university administration, teaching, and research. In short, this essay argues that it's the practice of tenure, rather than the idea of academic freedom, that needs to be expanded, affirmed, or saved in the context of the corporate...

... of national liberation. This text draws attention to the importance of the independent application of Marxism as an approach to development, rather than as a fixed or absolute text, and speaks poignantly to colonialism and post-independence politics and decadence and the major stumbling blocks on the path...

... modernism or narrow accounts of European art history. This essay is not concerned with securing a place for him within the mainstream history of modernism but rather investigating how models of “alternative modernities” might enable us to foreground the dialogical attitudes and practices that characterized...

... mechanisms of use, appliance, and adaptation must be critically addressed. The discourse of modernism within the postcolonial context in Asia and Africa seems to be unavoidable. This essay discusses a particular moment in the history of Egypt, in which a modern supplement, or rather injection, was slipped...

... of Christianity we see when we say that we see Christianity. We contend that, hardly the return of the repressed that it is often made out to be, the so-called turn to Christianity currently underway within the humanities and social sciences rather belongs to a much longer history of rearticulating Christianity...

... it is heading. And certainly there is much that could be said about theory now: narratology, for some time in the doldrums, seems to be making a comeback, taking cognitive science rather than linguistics as a model, though it may be too early to say whether this will prove productive. Psychoanalysis plays...