...Jayne Swift This article examines how, in the public eye, the hooker became happy. Extending Sara Ahmed’s concept of the “happiness duty,” the article explicates how sex positivity has inaugurated “respectability” politics within sex worker social movements. The author argues that sex worker social...

...Elmer M. Blistein Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 THE DRIVE FOR RESPECTABILITY: AN ASPECT OF THE COMIC CHARACTER Elmer M. Blistein AT THE CONCLUSION of Plato s Symposium, that convivial, intellectual treatise on love, the convivial finally overcomes the intellectual because, we...

...Harold T. Parker Respectable Folly: Millenarians and the French Revolution in France and England . By Garrett Clarke . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1975 . Pp. x , 237 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 118 South Atlantic...

...H. Houston Peckham Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 Is American Literature Read and Respected in Europe? H. Houston Peckham Instructor in English in Purdue University What a bone of critical contention the status of American literature is! Dull indeed is the season when some one...

...William B. Hamilton Impressions Respecting New Orleans: Diary and. Sketches, 1818-1820 . By Latrobe Benjamin Henry Boneval . Edited by Wilson Samuel Jr . New York : Columbia University Press , 1951 . Illustrated. Pp. xxiv , 196 . $8.75 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke...

...Amey Victoria Adkins While Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon are icons of the French existential movement—each being the influential progenitors of feminist theory and postcolonial studies, respectively—their names, lives, and works are rarely examined in concert. This essay argues...

... to move in the same direction they must respect their mutual autonomy. Drawing on the transcripts of negotiations between Canadian officials and Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) warriors in Tyendinaga, this article examines how the Two Row Wampum's notion of alliance through separation played out in the 2020 rail...

...Ian Bruff There is widespread recognition that neoliberalism’s rhetorical valorization of freedom through markets stands in considerable tension with “actually existing” neoliberalizing processes. Nevertheless, despite how things have turned out in practice, there is still underlying respect...

... it with a brief review of some of the wider ethnographic literature, this essay argues that the contemporary Pentecostal/charismatic global resurgence bears the mark of two distinct yet intertwined modalities of subjectivity and praxis, church and revival , each of which are similar, respectively...

... these outside demands on the Kofan and their devastating effects is a profound contempt for the rule of law by those around the Kofan and an utter lack of respect. Despite this, the Kofan know exactly who they are and the justice of their claims, and they continue to struggle against all odds. © 2011 Carlos...

... work. At the same time, it can operate as a bid for respectability, and one that occludes erotic labor as a strategy for refusing the work ethic. Thinking through the politics of the survival sex/sex work binary, the (dis)connections among wives and whores, and the intersections of whorephobia...

...Sven Opitz; Ute Tellmann This article analyzes how infrastructures take part in constituting Europe as a material collectivity. To that end, it modifies Bruno Latour’s sociology of associations in two respects: In order to theorize the relation between connectivity and collectivity, we consider...

... of finance in the present conjuncture as a process of decolonization. A generative line of investigation would be to align the operations of money with those of the derivative, in which information flows can be priced and knowledge valued. In this respect, derivative money can generate a rethinking...

... of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. The article finds that the two versions of the “production of space” offered up by these ostensibly complementary thinkers are not as easily reconcilable as one might be led to think—and notwithstanding their respective championing of “the right to the city.” Indeed...

... the negative differentiation, or privation, such erasure produces with respect to differences that used to characterize a form of life that was destroyed. In order to show how this paradox opens up new possibilities of resistance, I supplement Agamben's genealogies of bare life with two different political...

..., as it turned into a space for a multiplicity of struggles and acts of meaning-making. In this space, the call for an international women’s strike effectuated a series of moves: rupture with respect to institutionalized feminism, connectivity in regard to latent movements of recent decades, and a revitalization...

...Nazan Üstündağ This article explores the concepts of state pornography and resistance erotics respectively in order to understand the visual frames that the state aims to institute in regard to Kurdish bodies and the ways in which Kurds interrupt such frames. It dwells on three modalities of state...

... traversing the daily practices of law. In this respect, we suggest the following three points as promising research strategies: (1) offering a more extensive temporal framework that focuses on the historical continuities and discontinuities as well as the uneven experience and spatiality of exceptional rule...

...Ahmed Veriava This essay sets out a reflection on the 2015/2016 FMF revolt at the University of Witwatersrand (Wits) and develops in relation to two intertwined arguments. Firstly, I focus in on the wide-ranging transformation catalyzed by the FMF movement. In this respect I show that while the FMF...

... of colonization that protect the interests of white capital. But their respective prevalence seems to depend on the regime of racial capitalism at play. This paper examines the intersection of settler colonization and racial capitalism to shed light on the status of Indigenous economic rights in Canada. I ask...