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South Atlantic Quarterly (1961) 60 (1): 95–96.
Published: 01 January 1961
...Frederick J. Hoffman Start with the Sun: Studies in Cosmic Poetry . By Miller James E. Jr. Shapiro Karl Slote Bernice . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1960 . Pp. viii , 260 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 95...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2008) 107 (3): 531–546.
Published: 01 July 2008
... to name his condemned man or to give any specifics about his crime. Yet, the first-person perspective develops an undeniable power: getting inside the consciousness of someone about to have his head cut off by the state makes the obscenity of execution powerfully evident. Hugo's novel serves as a starting...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (1): 147–169.
Published: 01 January 2009
... whatever, even of the wildest kind.... such was my terror of the white circle on the wall, and of the moving slides.” Using Martineau's anecdote as a starting point, this essay considers the ways in which optical devices became an integral part of the “sensory structuring of experience” in the Victorian...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (4): 623–631.
Published: 01 October 2010
... rooted in secularist (and largely atheist) assumptions. Our contention is that these emerging discourses could benefit from some cross-fertilization. “Global Christianity, Global Critique” is an attempt to start a conversation toward this end, bringing together essays by social scientists who study...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (4): 695–717.
Published: 01 October 2010
... anthropology of Christianity—with Badiou's description of an original first-century Pauline Christian militancy could bring clarity to these issues. Starting with a reading of some key work and ethnography by Joel Robbins (one of the establishing figures in the anthropology of Christianity) and supplementing...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2012) 111 (1): 65–79.
Published: 01 January 2012
... of communism must start, then, from an analysis of the multitudinous actualization of community and collective forms—the constituent and creative matrix—of the revolts that have occurred in Bolivia and throughout Latin America in the last two decades. From this perspective, it becomes evident that it is within...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2013) 112 (2): 377–387.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., starting with water services and other local utilities, which would have been obliged to open to private shareholders. The Italian people, on the contrary, answered by coming together to defend the commons, voting en masse in June 2011 at the referendum called by the social movements against...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 177–188.
Published: 01 January 2021
... argues that capitalist dynamics can survive a material influx of the solar energy if more is not done to elaborate a transversal and molecular distribution of excess that solarity as a general condition invites. This discussion provides a starting point for a broad assessment of the nature and status...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (4): 892–902.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Keir Milburn Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party has allowed age to emerge as a dramatic new axis of political division. This article treats the political generation gap as, in part, a transformation in class composition. Most notably, starting with the political age divide makes...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (2): 425–434.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Betty Ruth Lozano Lerma To understand the social uprising that occurred in Colombia starting on the day of the national strike, April 28, 2021, particularly in the city of Santiago de Cali, this article examines three postulates: (1) Cali is an ethnicized/racialized and young city; (2) Colombia has...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (2): 339–357.
Published: 01 April 2022
...John Whitlow This article starts from the premise that we are living amid a conjunctural moment, in which the neoliberal political economic and ideological paradigm has been destabilized. In moments of conjuncture, competing social groups vie—contingently and unevenly—to reconfigure a social order...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2014) 113 (4): 874–883.
Published: 01 October 2014
... and the paroxysm of a revolt that started at least as early as 2010 but that in reality can be traced to much more distant periods: the dictatorship that lasted from the sixties to the eighties back through to the core of Brazil’s racism and inequality, that is, the slavery period. In this sense, struggling...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (1): 119–134.
Published: 01 January 2015
... spatial transformations. Starting with a few genealogical and theoretical vignettes, we argue that logistics plays a decisive role in contemporary processes of both the establishment of new and mobile forms of territoriality and the production of subjectivity. We hypothesize that these two productive...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (3): 611–630.
Published: 01 July 2015
... today's landscape of social abstraction, we analyze subject positions under postcrisis conditions starting with that of the entrepreneur, trying to better understand the social and political possibilities foreclosed by contemporary subjectivity. If the contemporary subject is a derelict shell housing data...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (3): 469–493.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Natalie Melas This essay starts from a consideration of the conditions of the emergence of Aimé Césaire's long poem Notebook of a Return to the Native Land in terms of the problem racial enunciation presents for lyric form. The essay proposes the working thesis that Césaire's Notebook...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (4): 665–683.
Published: 01 October 2016
... the development of British cultural studies as an anti-elitist, theoretically informed approach to the field of culture, in particular popular culture. Second, I propose that as this space also opened itself up, starting in the late 1980s, to emerging young black and Asian British artists, and as it extended...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2016) 115 (4): 699–714.
Published: 01 October 2016
... Moretti‘s distant reading, literary studies has itself started to approach cultural studies. But it is no longer the dominant kind of cultural studies; it is something much closer to Hall's initial project. Moretti's literary studies is not mimicking the cultural studies that is subsuming literary studies...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2010) 109 (2): 249–278.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Jeffrey Allen Tucker This essay starts with two questions: how does one define science fiction, and what difference does race makes to science fiction? Posing these questions together suggests that they are related and provides an opportunity to consider Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand (1984...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2009) 108 (3): 563–580.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Natalie Melas This essay aims to develop the notion of untimeliness in order to complicate the often mimetic historicism that underwrites approaches to the question of colonial and postcolonial modernities and modernism. Starting from Homi Bhabha's notion of contramodernity, particularly in its...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2019) 118 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 January 2019
...Bülent Küçük; Ceren Özselçuk This essay frames the emerging regime in Turkey as a question. Starting with a discussion of the limits of conjunctural analysis, we offer some fragmentary analysis. We highlight transgression of law and imperial fantasies as the two constitutive aspects that have...