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...Tyrus Hillway The Trying-Out of Moby-Dick . By Vincent Howard P. . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1949 . Pp. xvi , 400 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 262 The South Atlantic Quarterly accurate quotation is from Theocritus, Idyll XV. 112-113, 120...

...Leticia Veloso This essay is based on extensive fieldwork with marginalized children and other working children in Rio de Janeiro, conducted in two favelas and on the streets of four different neighborhoods. Specifically, my research focused on how particular children try to earn a living...

...Noel Castree Climate science is embedded in a much grander geoscientific attempt to understand an earth system perturbed by human activities. “Global change science,” as it is sometimes called, is now trying ever harder to understand and influence the so-called human dimensions of environmental...

...Sam Okoth Opondo Heeding Frantz Fanon's thoughts on colonialism and forgiveness alongside his call for us to “turn over a new leaf . . . work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man,” this text-mediated meditation on the hatred of forgiveness contends with the question/quest of forgiveness...

... trying to account for why global Pentecostalism so often mimics globalized capitalism. I suggest that Pentecostalism will be truly critical—and hence, prophetic—only to the extent that it is catholic . © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 James K. A. Smith “The spirits of the prophets are subject...

... of resistances across the psychic system and have effects outside the immediate occasion. Working through resistance merges on both ends with the ongoing registration of perceptions in the lifelong project of trying to perceive reality together with other people. Departing somewhat from Freud's use of the term...

... 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...

...Ariella Azoulay Assuming that the BDS is the largest civil movement today claiming to change the Israeli political regime, what type of “we” does it enable? In this essay, I try to answer this question, based on the premise that the response of Jewish Israeli citizens to the crimes and abuses...

... of an epilogue, a knowledge might come out and, within the limits of interrogations, contribute to an appraisal of possibles allowed by texts. In brief, writing this epilogue comes to signify how to try to recapture one's consciousness in the fascination about manners of others' writings. © 2010 Duke...

...Olga Lafazani This essay discuss the everyday life processes in the occupied City Plaza Hotel, inhabited by almost four hundred migrants and solidarity activists. As a member of the reception group since day one, I attempt to discuss the challenges of the project, rather than try to praise and show...

.... The following extract from Romano Alquati (taken from Walking to Realize a Common Dream , Velleità Alternative, 1994, pp. 70–81) measures this gap, trying to indicate the affinities and divergences between the author’s argument and the practice of worker’s inquiry, with the aim of proposing a schema of co...

... will try to follow a different perspective not only to see the extent to which Foucault’s later work departs from his earlier positions and insights, but also to suggest that crucial notions from this phase of his work are relevant and important to any attempt to rethink a politics of social transformation...

...Anneleen Kenis Taking inspiration from Walter Benjamin's “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” this article discusses how new climate movements try to break with the empty time of conventional climate discourses in order to politicize the “now.” Pointing at the catastrophe looming on the horizon...

... limit the SP's tactical uses of these platforms, the SP's agency to use these to try to make history in digital conditions not of its own choosing is significant. This article argues that the SP's tactical use of social media platforms exists between structure and agency, at the interface of top‐down...

... than anything else. Now, to go back even farther than that, you see, I write for myself. I do not write for any­ body else. I think a writer who sets out to win money, to win acclaim, to win popularity is a falsifying situation, because the writer should present himself, not try to impress somebody...

... headlines in Mr. Book Reviews 125 Dulles s work, but his account of what we are trying to do and why we are trying to do it is more important than his specific recommendations. Like Mr. Truman and Mr. Acheson, Mr. Dulles does not like the type of peace proposed by the Russians. Their idea of peace...

... and is so pervasive that we cannot understand ourselves without at least pondering seriously what has gone before. Because we shall change our herit­ age in trying to adapt it better to ourselves and to those who come after us, we need to try to discover as much as we can of the nature of the social fabric...

... in the novels. Why would Wolfe treat that institution so abominably when he had been reasonably happy there and well treated? Why this ingratitude? Professor Cargill might as well try to answer the question, Why did Wolfe portray Eliza Gant so execrably when he loved his mother so much? Alas, the answer...

... that now, courtesy of the glo- balisation of climate, also a¡ict these areas. The reason is that women, men, and children die there while trying to get from Africa to Europe: thir- ty-Šve thousand deaths in ten years ascertained deaths, the actual number is surely higher. Even this basic fact can t...

.... I should try to get a photographer in here and photograph you again. MARIA CELIA I don’t like to have my picture taken, Lieutenant. Can you do something about my mail, or not? LIEUTENANT PORTUONDO I suppose I can do a lot...