... 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...

... on devastated land. This emphasis on individual recovery, in a city where large-scale urban infrastructures had failed, is key to understanding why the city has undergone only a slow and partial recuperation. The city was to be reconstructed both physically and ideologically as a city of individualization...

... in the country, and the community’s quick return and recovery after the hurricane thrust them into the local and national spotlight. The community’s vibrant urban farms have been a particular point of focus, but this article shows how the range of meanings emerging from the Vietnamese American New Orleans...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...

... and approximately six feet in diameter, this biological artifact contrasts dramatically with the urbane form of the building it sits on. Outside the Whitney and inside in the sculpture garden there is more evidence of animal activity that might seem out of place in this vast city, often assumed...

...Bruce Robbins © 2008 the minnesota review 2008 Bruce Robbins Infrastructure as Political Unconscious (on David L. Pike’s Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworld of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001 [Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2007]) “You could quite easily drive a car right across the north...

... to the US. Through the mid-1980s, Harvey focused on cities, especially Paris, resulting in The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization (Hopkins, 1985), Consciousness and the Urban Experience (Hopkins, 1985), and The Urban Experience (Hopkins...

... The Italian state responded to this worker assault by depressing the value of wages through monetary policy (artificially induced inflation) and by expanding the class struggle onto the urban terrain and into the sphere of social reproduction. It did so by unilaterally raising the costs...

..." program, as part of the recent trend of structural readjustment of a large, public, urban university. This readjustment replicates a pattern of managerial response across the history of US higher education: that is, the need for institutions to differentiate that mission and respond efficiently...

... more selective boundaries within and between institutions. Indeed, even the hardy band of (mostly) tenured radicals who once opposed us must now accept that the 1960s are over. The largest public urban system in this great nation now also accepts that a university cannot right the wrongs...

... a distinctively new spatiality and as requiring something like cognitive mapping as an aesthetic and political response was crucial for my understanding of this turn. Edward Soja s Postmodern Geographies (1989) combined detailed social-scientific work from geography and urban planning with this bringing...

... her dissertation, “Restless Houses: Domesticity and Urban Culture in Paris and Lon­ don, 1820–1888.” She began as a professor at University of California, Berkeley (1994–2003), where she was a colleague of Stephen Best, and since 2003 she has taught at Columbia University, where she...

... and advertising continually manipulate the fine line between standing out and blending in; and biologists have begun studying the phenomenon of “urban speciation,” in which insects and birds mimic and adapt to various aspects of urban environments. The work of scholars like Homi Bhabha and Judith...

... . The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Miéville China . 2006 . Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law . London : Pluto . Pervo Richard I. 2009 . Acts: A Commentary . Hermeneia Series...

.../transversal/0811/lorey/en . McDonough Thomas . 1996 . “La deriva y el París situacionista” [The dérive and situationist Paris] . In Situacionistas: Arte, Política, Urbanismo [Situationists: Art, politics, urbanism] , edited by Andreotti Libero Costa Xavier , 54 – 66 . Barcelona...

... of free-range turkeys at Good Shepherd Ranch. This innovative approach has been taken to new heights by a variety of online “Moo Tube” sites that grant urban consumers glimpses into the lives of dairy and beef cattle. Particularly notable is the UK-based mymootube.com, which highlights...

... romance in the idyllic city of light into fiery tales of migrant survival through the oral inventiveness of the storyteller (48). As an ex-centered periph- eral discourse, kala pani migritude is articulated from the urban mar- gins by clandestine South Asian migrants in Paris to underscore non- normative...

... study, False Promises to his 2003 book How Class Works. William Julius Wilson developed sharp analyses of the links between race, class, and economic structures in his 1996 study, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor. Anthropology contributes essential concepts about...

... with their sad, melted phones or the raga of a student violinist who twiddles his thinness into a blues. Someone named urban hobo has knitted an alpaca sweater for the subway pole; therefore, I am not alone in my wonder. Consider the nearness of the dark in which two...

... of gaining refuge in the promised land of France, drawing a bleak picture of the repeating conditions of trauma in migritude even as the migrants tales disrupt codes of subaltern silence. 62 the minnesota review Yumna Siddiqi s article, Mobility in the City: Rawi Hage s Nov- els of Urban Migrants...