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...James D. Graham Southern Nigeria in Transition 1885-1906: Theory and Practice in a Colonial Protectorate . By Anene J. C. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1966 . Pp. xii , 360 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Book Reviews 197 appeared a few...

...Brittany Murray; Oded Nir In this article, the authors argue that our moment of transition in the capitalist mode of production requires us to rethink the received opposition between politically committed art and autonomous art, through a reading of the recent film Anatomy of a Fall . The first...

..., capitalism enforces a kind of sameness or stasis, considerably limiting the possibility of a green transition, even as the threat of severe climate change looms. Here, then, we encounter stasis yet again. A quick turn to the political realm will make clear another point, namely, that good intentions...

... economic forms broadens our capacity to recognize political tendencies in the present and resources for building communism. communism transition Marxism What does the concept of “transition” presuppose? Does transition make sense only if you know exactly where you have been and where you will end...

...Alan K. Manchester Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 X)he SOUTH ATLANTIC Quarterly BRAZIL IN TRANSITION Alan K. Manchester AT 8:30 on the morning of August 24, 1954, Getulio Vargas com­ mitted suicide. The announcement stunned Brazil. The sui­ cide was a totally unexpected...

...James T. Wall Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 The Ashcan School: Transition in American Art James T. Wall A New York exhibition of the works of eight painters in January, 1908, was the opening volley of a revolution in American art. Known apocryphally as the Ashcan School,1...

...James Olney Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The African Novel in Transition: Chinua Achebe James Olney Chinua Achebe, who is probably the most highly regarded novelist of West Africa and perhaps of all of black Africa, presents the student of African literature...

... of California Publications in Political Science, Volume 4, No. 3 . Pp. vi , 317 - 410 . $1.50 . The Gold Coast in Transition . By Apter David E. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1955 . Pp. xiii , 355 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 253...

...Alberto Toscano Recent debates about communism, the commons, and communization have for the most part either neglected the question of transition or viewed it as an obstacle to the development of contemporary revolutionary thought and practice. This sidelining or criticism of transition frequently...

...Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze Transition and the Reasons of Memory Forgiveness is not, it should not be, normal, normative, normalizing. It should remain exceptional and extraor...

... public space but a new way of conceiving ethics and politics. Focusing on the issues of crisis and transition, this essay reconstructs Foucault’s historical reflections on Greek and Roman practices of the care of the self as mediated responses to the crisis of politics in the late 1970s...

...E. Roy Weintraub Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 E. Roy Weintraub Is Is a Precursor of a Transitive Relation? Ina number of recent papers and a book, I have explored the implications of the idea that the history of economics is neither found nor discovered.1 1 have argued...

... needs to rely on this gendered, binary, and hierarchical principle in its functioning, transitioning will pose a problem. This does not mean that we should not fight against transphobia in particular, but that we must succeed in understanding the economic bases of transphobic oppression...

...Hugh Davis Graham Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit . By Barnes Catherine A. . New York : Columbia University Press , 1983 . Pp. xi , 313 . $28.00 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 107 Journey from Jim Crow...

... to them to the realm of the intimate, the private, the particular, that is, treating theirs as minority (and consequently minor) issues. Such minoritization of women is the result of a historical transition to colonial modernity. This transition was driven at first by the process of conquest...

...Paresh Chandra This article conceptualizes the relationship between the transitional aspect of third‐world nationhood and its allegorical aspect. It argues that to say that the moment of national self‐determinations is “transitional” is not to say that it is a necessary “stage” in the path...

...Christian Haines This essay argues for an understanding of the Anthropocene as both historical impasse and historical transition. It is an impasse insofar as there is a conceptual and practical gap between human history and planetary history, or politics and ecology. It is a transition insofar...

...Mathias Nilges Novelists whose work grapples with the climate crisis and the urgent need for structural transition return time and again to two questions: Why is it so hard for people to see what's happening? Why do we not seem to be able to imagine the transition to new environmental, social...

...Raúl Sánchez Cedillo What we can reasonably call the uprising that began on May 15, 2011, was the most important political and social event in Spain since the end of the dictatorship and the beginning of the “democratic transition” codified in the 1978 constitution. No other event, movement...

...Mark Simpson; Imre Szeman Although energy transition—a shift from dirty energy to cleaner, renewable energy—has become a mantra for an effective way of addressing climate change, energy impasse—the incapacity of any transition whatsoever—is actually the defining condition of our age. This essay...