...Jane Kuenz Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Jane Kuenz It s a Small World after All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification In my family, the story goes that my sister s engagement was orchestrated by Disney. One autumn night, she and her partner placed themselves in Bistro...

...Anders Linde-Laursen Anders Linde-Laursen Small Differences Large Issues: The Making and Remaking of a National Border nation has increasingly been a subject of discussion during the last ten years. It has steadily gained more public attention with the developments toward integration in Western...

...J. J. Spengler Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Small Island Economies: Some Limitations J. J. Spengler Man and not Nature initiates, but Nature in large measure controls. H. J. MacKinder My concern is with the capacity of small-island economies, Carib­ bean ones in particular...

... that Chaucer visited Spain in 1366. Gathering the records together in a single volume would have been a worthwhile but small task, requiring only a fraction of the immense amount of research and editorial work involved in the preparation of this volume. From the time when the project was first begun forty...

...Edward L. Galligan Simenon s Mosaic of Small Novels Edward L. Galligan At the end of his life Andre Gide was at work on a study of the fiction of Georges Simenon, whom he had called perhaps the greatest of contemporary French novelists. Simenon has com­ mented on his relationship with Gide...

...H. M. Spitzer Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 THE SMALL NATION AND THE PRESERVATION OF PEACE H. M. SPITZER IS IT POSSIBLE to organize a community of nations which will prevent war in the future? Twenty-five years ago a good many people thought it an easy task, but the history...

...Duru Su Kadıoğlu; Ceren Sözeri Özdal This article focuses on the alimony contesters in Turkey, who are a part of the online antifeminist countermovement. The alimony contesters’ movement is significant because, even though they are small in numbers, they successfully leveraged support from pro...

... for black men and black women. By emphasizing male formal leadership, African American communities not only have failed to recognize the importance, necessity, and complexity of female bridge leadership, but also have bound the civil rights movement’s longevity to a small cadre of male leaders. Shifting...

...’ commercial strategy, forcing them to raise their work time to adapt to the cost decreases in the mid-2010s, which dramatically reduced their income. To ensure a flexible flow into the workforce, platforms have favored the development of small intermediaries to outsource hiring and thereby skirt labor law...

...Sarah Stefana Smith My first inclination to this prompt, what of Black temporalities in crisis, was to ask a small group of Black familiars (friends and colleagues) to talk with me about their current experience of time in quarantine, and under the present articulations of racial injustice...

... that is on the verge of rupture. Such acts of construction necessarily entail an engagement with—and a contestation over—the state; and they play out, in no small part, on the terrain of law. The article’s focus is on the ways in which recent political economic, organizing, and legal developments in New York City’s...

... tactics of resistance to rights violations, the US supermax context limited the reform conversation to small, mundane debates about the language of rules and the slight adjustments in privileges provided to prisoners. But that very conversation ultimately highlighted the extremity of the conditions...

... incarceration (without mass protest) of “dangerous populations,” almost any young black man, Latino gang members, and small-fry neighborhood drug dealers. The normalization of long-term solitary confinement in Security Housing Units (SHUs) in US prisons crosses over into the realm of torture and crimes against...

... only a small role in mobilizing the demonstrations and occupations of public space that were the emblematic expressions of the 2011 Arab uprisings. The Egyptian and other Arab popular uprisings were not the result of proliferating NGOs or “building civil society.” Rather, they were the consequence...

...Erdem Yörük This article provides the trajectory of the political and social conditions that structured the sudden and puzzling explosion of the nationwide Gezi revolt in Turkey out of a small protest for an urban park in Istanbul during the summer of 2013. It depicts the macro-level political...

..., and demand civic entitlements (even in the absence of citizenship), reveals forms of reciprocity and activism that do not fit prevailing models for Palestinian political subjectivity in this context. Energies and impulses redirected into small-scale, seemingly nonideological “minor politics” challenge...

... were first invited in small mixed groups to fully expand on their concerns before tables of participants would take responsibility for a single shared question put to the speaker. Inviting face-to-face presence and shared ownership seemed to disarm the willingness to carry through with disruptive...

... communities, since novels of this period are marked by ubiquitous spontaneous small groups forming around people who are ill or hurt, but I also make a case that care communities continue to exist today, particularly among queer communities and people of color, performing a vital function in our ordinary...

... the border territory, small humanitarian relief groups conduct stopgap efforts to mitigate the loss of life in the remote borderlands wilderness. Yet after a decade of emergency relief work with the most provisional of infrastructure, the border crisis increasingly leans toward the indefinite production...