...: crawling with amateur adventurers who can afford it and littered with the corpses of those who do not make it down. Indeed, the mountaineer summiting Everest has become the ultimate figure of human achievement, a sort of mascot of upward mobility. Today’s climbing body is more often than not presented...

... of urban life applaud the city as a space that is hospitable to encounters with difference; they fail to consider the ways in which processes of bordering and differentiation are part of economies that exploit migrants. This article focuses on Hage’s portrayal of migrant mobility in the city. By bringing...

...Jennifer Ruth © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Work Cited Robbins Bruce . Review of Amanda Anderson, The Way We Argue Now . Criticism 48 . 2 ( 2007 ). Jennifer Ruth A Downwardly-Mobile Professor Reads Bruce Robbins’ Upward Mobility and the Common Good...

... Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism . Durham : Duke UP , 2000 . Robbins Bruce . Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2007 . Schoenbach Lisi . “A Jamesian State: The American...

... Il mio viaggio della speranza (My Voyage of Hope) Literatures of postcolonial mobility and migration, or migritude litera- tures, include a significant number of life narratives and therefore are often productively read within the parameters of life writing. Migritude, understood both as a reworking...

... of books we have received from publishers (bear in mind that they might already have been sent out to people by the time the issue is printed): Antliff, Mark. Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939. Durham: Duke UP, 2007. Awkward, Michael. Soul...

... these and similar numbers is to take a few cues from Heather Mac Donald's masterful critique of CUNY in her article "Downward Mobility." First: focus on graduation rates, graduation rates, graduation rates! Everybody knows that CUNY students spend years and years getting their degrees. (Luckily, fewer...

..., but if I was thinking about writerly influence, I probably learned the most from that. Actually, de Certeau’s work is still for me quite productive because I’ve been thinking a lot the last few years about mobility. The reflections in The Practice of Everyday Life on what it means...

... consensus are often screened out or discouraged by the process of academic training and tenuring. As an additional problem, tenure also tends to discourage mobility between institutions. Most universities and colleges prefer to hire junior candidates because their risk exposure is lower (you...

... in postcolonial history. As mentioned ear- lier, Sinha re-creates a postmodern kala pani dislocation as a memorial to South Asian immigration history. Her novel demonstrates how border mappings do not facilitate border mobility when an individual is located on the othered side of these drowning countries (13...

... for another slice of plastic who too would land splayed in a pit. The mass grave that preschool boredom digs. Nana diverted me, I'll tell you now. Ice cream, new crayons, a lily-pink dress. Mobilized, roaring with rage, they can form Special Forces. Draft my brother's...

... and diaspora. Femme Migritude and Diasporic Unsettlement I coin the term femme migritude to name a mode of queer femininity within which Patel mobilizes her migrant poetics. Femme migritude builds from black feminist scholar T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting s con- cept of femme negritude, which critiques...

.... Because of the lack of geographical mobility for most Canadian undergraduates, professors with baccalaureates from outside the country were not likely Canadi- ans or permanent residents when commencing their university studies. In English doctoral programs in Canada, almost one-tenth of the faculty held...

... to in the 1970s, come and study here and go home, or stay, or go to another, third country? Why is general mobil- ity denied to those from the global South? That s the question we need to be asking. As it stands, this system fuels trafficking. When you fuel trafficking across water, then you do so on terra firma...

..., processual, and more lateral than upwardly mobile. Amateurism is also a way of de-dramatizing the risk of having ideas in public, a position that critiques self-authorizing claims of credentialed expertise and the tedium of reproducing disciplinary norms. It allows the creative type to mix...

... . Vertovec Steven Cohen Robin . 2003 . Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context, and Practice . Oxford : Oxford University Press . White Jenny B. 2002 . Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics . Seattle : University of Washington Press . Yavuz M...

...: Duke UP, 2010. Verstraete, Ginette. Tracking Europe: Mobility, Diaspora, and the Politics of Location. Durham: Duke UP, 2010. ...

... Orleans East .” Journal of American History 94 : 770 – 79 . Li Wei . 2008 . “ Surviving Katrina and Its Aftermath: Evacuation and Community Mobilization by Vietnamese Americans and African Americans .” Journal of Cultural Geography 25 : 263 – 86 . NASA (National Aeronautics...

... it ineffectual compared to traditional methods of mobilization, such as direct appeal. In a special issue of PMLA on poetry, Bruce Smith (2005: 10) in his introduction remarked that the conceptual catego- ries favored in contemporary theory material conditions, race, gen- der, class, ethnicity seem to have...

... standard. The exponential growth of machine translation applications for both desktop and mobile devices, particularly with speech and char- acter recognition capability, means that functioning in a multilingual social matrix need not necessarily be hindered by monolingualism.3 It is precisely...