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Public Space/Private Discourse
Authors: Skinner Lee
Published: May 2017

The chapter argues that the notions of public and private, while mapped onto exterior and interior spaces respectively—the street and public institutions vs. the home—are uncontainable within supposedly set parameters. The permeability of the barriers between exterior and interior means that private and public become enmeshed as both positive and negative, sometimes simultaneously. Using Habermas’s concept of private and public spaces, the chapter analyzes the countryside, small villages, and cities represented in, respectively, María by Jorge Isaacs, Aves sin nido by Clorinda Matto de Turner, Martín Rivas by Alberto Blest Gana, and La mestiza by Eligio Ancona and discusses how these authors explore, test, and question the ways in which social norms are mapped onto physical and psychic spaces. As these representations enforce or subvert particular behavioral codes, they also draw attention to the constructed nature of the ways in which human beings possess and use the spaces around them. These novels perpetuate the separation of public and private spaces and the fixed gender roles assigned to each space to encourage the incipient bourgeoisie and its accompanying middle-class ideals. The insistent linkage of gender identity and space results in restrictions on women’s mobility, literal and metaphorical.
Prologue
Authors: Gallivan Martin D. , Thompson Victor D.
Published: May 2017

The prologue draws a contrast between the typical starting point for Chesapeake history—John Smith’s captivity narrative—with an alternative point of departure—a Pamunkey ritual performed around a map of the Powhatan world. A shift from American master narratives and colonial-era celebrities toward local forms of knowledge and deeper histories of place raises several challenging questions: How did the landscapes of the Chesapeake—defined in the broadest terms to include natural settings as well as built environments, representations of spaces, and experiences of places—contribute to the making of Tsenacomacoh and the unmaking of the Powhatan chiefdom? What role did maize and horticultural towns, political centers, sacred locations, and valued objects play in this landscape? Do maps, settlement arrangements, and burial traditions point us toward Virginia Algonquian modes of dwelling and of making history? Might a deeper history of Tsenacomacoh’s spaces, places, and pathways bring to the fore silences in the way colonial histories are recounted today?.
Regional Changes within the Inka Frontier Zone
Authors: Alconini Sonia
Published: May 2017

Chapter 4 is devoted to the Oroncota region, within the frontier zone. This section takes a regional scope with a discussion of the changes in the broader settlement dynamics, and the effects of the Inka conquest in those processes. Trade patterns and indigenous agricultural practices are also examined, particularly in consideration of the broader demographic shifts.
New Diary Realms
Authors: Lounsberry Barbara
Published: May 2017

Woolf seeks out new realms in her 1920 diary. In January, she wonders how far she should allow herself to report indiscretion in her diary. In March, she ponders something more profound: whether she can write “a diary of the soul.” In April, she considers whether her diary can “trench upon literature”—another (but related) realm, as the soul holds her “precious art.” On her thirty-eighth birthday, January 25, 1920, she had conceived of “a new form for a new novel”—her first modernist novel, Jacob’s Room. Declaring that she could “think [herself] a novelist” if she could record “talk,” Woolf experiments across her 1920 diary with different ways to render conversations. She practices, in short, for her public prose. In April, she is sent W.N.P. Barbellion’s famous Journal of a Disappointed Man. It spurs her exploration of the soul, offers her half the plot of Mrs. Dalloway, and helps her envision To the Lighthouse to come. In October, she publishes a lengthy commemorative essay on John Evelyn’s diary, probing the diary’s power—and also how this seventeenth-century diarist differs from his contemporary descendants.
Spare, Modernist Perfection
Authors: Lounsberry Barbara
Published: May 2017

Woolf appears in consummate command in her 1924 diary. She curbs her number of diary entries and brakes her previous need for praise. London supplies the motion she craves. As she finishes Mrs. Dalloway and her Common Reader essays, she sends out shoots of other works. The diaries she reads assist her. The Letters and Journals of Anne Chalmers, which Woolf reviews in February 1924, were edited by Chalmers’ daughter. They recall and preserve a dead mother, describe summer holidays at the Scottish seaside with “a large and clever family,” and even offer the name Mrs. Ramsay. Woolf then reads The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford with an introduction by Vita Sackville-West, another case of a daughter thinking back through, and immortalizing, a dead foremother. Lady Clifford's Renaissance diary also offers women’s history and grist for Woolf’s essays “The Elizabethan Lumber Room” and “Donne after Three Centuries.” Even more important, its tale of a ferocious fight over a daughter’s inheritance inspires the plot of Orlando. In July, Woolf reviews the early journals of Stendhal, the father of the psychological novel. They direct her mind (yet again) to the soul and to the many nuances and contradictions of character.
Rush, Urgency, Wound, and Rescue
Authors: Lounsberry Barbara
Published: May 2017

Woolf’s 1925 diary repeats the alarming scenario of her 1921 diary. In January and February 1925, Woolf gives over her diary time to ready The Common Reader and Mrs. Dalloway for Hogarth Press. She substitutes work for diary refreshment, just as in 1921 she replaced her diary with Russian lessons before her summer collapse. Each time she does not fully reckon the physical toll and mental strain of her unrelieved work. In 1925, Woolf also underestimates the drain of her new London social life. Her diary, however, signals the danger. The projected glorious fall start of To the Lighthouse becomes collapse and months of headache, causing Woolf to call 1925 “this wounded and stricken year.” Yet as in 1921 and 1918, Woolf makes in her diary a remarkable rescuing move. In December, she seizes on Vita Sackville-West as rescue, just as she created “Elderly Virginia” at the end of 1918. In June, she finds that Jonathan Swift’s famed Journal to Stella addresses uncannily several of her own current trials. In Orlando, she will have Orlando meet the prickly Irishman of the Journal to Stella. Swift’s Journal offers fuel for A Room of One’s Own as well.
The Loose-Leaf Diary
Authors: Lounsberry Barbara
Published: May 2017

In 1927, Woolf embarks on a two-and-a-half-year experiment with a loose-leaf diary, meant to catch more stray or “loose” thoughts. Her 1927 loose-leaf diary seems to plunge her into her creative unconscious. An off-handed air emerges from this diary, which seems a holding pond spontaneously spouting scenes. Orlando comes to her in this diary and the play-poem The Waves. The loose-leaf diary both invites unfettered fancy and serves as a site to preserve, and even restrain, Woolf’s “gushing mind” as she enjoys the “ardour and lust of creation.” Touchingly, at this time when Woolf is awash in spontaneous invention, she reads in August 1927 the first published version of Katherine Mansfield’s Journal. She could hardly fail to note there Mansfield’s greater struggle and self-doubt. Yet Woolf finds Mansfield's Journal most suggestive. Mansfield endorses androgyny there; she describes an imaginary child who changes gender. Journal passages also resonate uncannily with Woolf’s own growing ideas for The Waves, and Mansfield offers the concept of “derision” which Woolf will take for Three Guineas. More than anything, however, Mansfield’s 1927 Journal presents Woolf with ideas and a cautionary life story for A Room of One’s Own.
Artist at a Crossroads
Authors: Lounsberry Barbara
Published: May 2017

Woolf’s 1928 diary offers the reflections of an artist at a juncture: “some uneasy sense, of change,” she writes in her first entry. Orlando’s completion and surprise success dominates this diary. However, the problem is what to write next. The artistic crossroads Woolf faces in November involves nonfiction and fiction, the external and the internal, and the will to explore. Woolf both probes and resolves the tension in two November diary entries. One answer is to refine her turn-and-turn-about tack. She will allow works of “talent” to relieve her works of “genius.” More importantly, she will try “to saturate every atom” to reach a deeper mix. Her loose-leaf diary experiment ends with the first 1929 diary, the final diary in her second, lean modernist stage. If Orlando unfurled across the 1928 diary, the first 1929 diary resounds with A Room of One’s Own. However, Woolf also readies herself for her coming battle with The Waves. She will need her courage as she begins “a time of adventure and attack, rather lonely and painful.” But her diary continues to help her; in fact, she moves at the end to give it even firmer life in a bound diary book.
The Role of the Nicaraguan Rise in the Early Peopling of the Greater Antilles
Authors: Roksandic van
Published: May 2017

Chapter 1 resurrects the hypothesis, supported by several studies conducted in different spheres of academic research (archaeology; ancient DNA study; toponomastics; physical anthropology), about the possible population movements through the mid-Caribbean island chain and the early connections between the region of Nicaragua/Honduras in Lower Central America and the Greater Antilles. It examines non-Arawak toponyms from Western Cuba and tentatively links them to the Chibchan language family spoken in Lower Central America and in the Isthmo-Columbian region. The question of explaining the developments that made possible such long distance direct maritime links, and population movements, is answered with bathymetric studies by Milne and Perros which indicate that between 8000 BP and 4000 BP the sea level was 4–5 m lower. More islands in the Nicaraguan Rise were exposed and habitable than there are today. Such situation could provide early fishing communities not only with an easy island-hopping highway towards the Greater Antilles, but also with fishing grounds. This hypothesis agrees with views on island archaeology, which analyze island colonization as two main phases: occupation and utilization. The first begins with discovery, and progresses through exploration and visitation to year-round utilization. The second comprises first seasonal settlement and establishment, or permanent settlement.
A Pre-Columbian Dental Modification Complex at the Site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba
Authors: Alarie Kaitlynn , Roksandic Mirjana
Published: May 2017

In Caribbean archaeological context, dental modifications originate from post-contact African populations as a practice brought into the region through the colonial slave trade. Six individuals recovered from Canímar Abajo exhibit dental modification of the upper central incisors similar to West African styles of dental filing. The dates from those six individuals predate the African Diaspora. This type of dental modification has not been previously documented among pre-Columbian groups in the Caribbean. Although there could be no connections between the pre-Columbian Canímar Abajo individuals and West African populations, the similarity in form may be due to a convergence in methodology and materials. The fact that this practice is present on individuals from both the Older (1380–800 BC) and Younger Cemetery (AD 360–950) establishes the long duration of the practice. While the dental modification could have been more common and unrecognized due to dental attrition and tooth loss, its presence in the two distinct temporal components of Canímar Abajo signify its importance for the understanding of identity among the group(s) that buried their dead at the site. This chapter discusses the significance of this tradition, primarily the role that it may have played in concepts of group identity, beauty, and social position.
The Role of Caves and Gullies in Escape, Mobility, and the Creation of Community Networks among Enslaved Peoples of Barbados
Authors: Smith Frederick H. , Bassett Hayden F.
Published: May 2017

While the layout of plantation slave villages demonstrate a great deal of planter control, the private landscapes of enslaved peoples offer insights into the activities and experiences where the reach of the planter was more limited. Archaeological investigations of the caves and gullies surrounding St. Nicholas Abbey sugar plantation in St. Peter, Barbados offer insights into the activities that some enslaved plantation workers pursued. The gullies winding between St. Nicholas Abbey, the tenantry of Moore Hill, Pleasant Hall plantation and other estates in St. Peter contain a series of caves, many of which possess material culture, including ceramics, clay tobacco pipes, and black bottle glass. These caves, as liminal spaces on the landscape between adjoining plantations, appear to have served as meeting areas for enslaved peoples and later free workers. The privacy these spaces afforded spurred physical mobility and social interaction between enslaved peoples from surrounding villages, and may have fostered activities that were not permitted in the public sphere, such as gaming and leisure. Gullies are thus viewed as conduits and corridors that connected communities in the plantation-dominated landscape of Barbados and offered a temporary respite from the challenges of plantation life.
“Poor Whites” on the Peripheries
Authors: Reilly Matthew C.
Published: May 2017

This chapter explores socioeconomic interactions between “Poor Whites” or “Redlegs” and Afro-Barbadians as interpreted through material culture and a particular reading of a Barbadian plantation landscape. The tenantry of Below Cliff, now shrouded in dense forest, is located on the “rab” land or marginal zone of Clifton Hall plantation deemed unsuitable for large-scale agricultural production. Despite the marginality of the space in terms of plantation production and a perceived socioeconomic isolation of island “poor whites” in general, Below Cliff was a space of heightened interracial interaction. I argue that such seemingly marginal spaces (as well as the people who inhabit them) are significant arenas through which to explore the dynamic and nuanced race relations that play out in everyday life on and around the plantation. While plantation slavery was crucial in the development of modern racial ideologies and hierarchies, including attempts to rigidly impose and police racial boundaries, archaeological evidence suggests that on the local level these boundaries were exceedingly porous.
Conclusion
Authors: Wilkie Laurie A.
Published: May 2017

The essays in this volume challenge us to question what we know about Caribbean history and everyday life by turning our gaze from the very things that we have put boundaries on to those things we have not. Summary of themes in the previous chapters and suggestion of future directions for historical archaeology in the Caribbean.
Eluding Capture
Authors: Alaimo Stacy
Published: May 2017

The second chapter explores how, although scientists and cultural theorists have denied or dismissed the sexual diversity of nonhuman animals, they are important for new materialism, animal studies, and queer, green politics. The wonder, awe, and pleasure of contemplating the countless modes of nonhuman sexual diversity, which pulse with desire and erotic ingenuity, may generate environmentalisms that are already fabulously queer.
Ally
Authors: Fordham Signithia
Published: May 2017

The seventh chapter follows Ally as it reveals how a tall, self-identified, slightly overweight “good” White girl, longs to embody and reflect the idealized, hegemonic, gender-specific image affiliated with (elite) White women: beautiful, blond, petite and very thin. Her desire to embody elite Whiteness is so strong that she developed an eating disorder and was compelled to spend time in an appropriate clinic. Her unhealthy relationship with food continued during the study and was manifested in her inability to watch others eat, including her friends in the school cafeteria.
Face
Authors: Sheldon Rebekah
Published: May 2017

The introduction of the book lays out the historical and theoretical stakes of its project. It works to chart the movement from the child-in-need-of rescue (characterized by Henry James’s 1898 novella Turn of the Screw) to the child-as-resource by the way of Kazou Ishiguro’s 2005 Never Let Me Go. As Carolyn Steedman argues in Strange Dislocations, scientific accounts of physiological growth and development were central to the construction of the child as well as to evolutionary thought, a congruence expressed in recapitulation theory. In essence, the link forged between the child and the species helped to shape eugenic historiography, focalized reproduction as a matter of concern for racial nationalism, and made the child a mode of time keeping.
Planet
Authors: Sheldon Rebekah
Published: May 2017

The third chapter works through an extended reading of Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel The Road. It explores the way that post apocalyptic narratives engender a split figuration of the salvific child against the uncannily impersonal Earth--or what is called, alongside Luce Irigaray, the revelation of the chora behind the veil of the oikos.
Cinema's Bodily Illusions
Authors: Richmond Scott C.
Published: May 2017

Before it is a technology for representation, the cinema is a technology for the modulation of its viewers’ perception. Cinema’s Bodily Illusions offers a theory of the cinema as a proprioceptive technology: the cinema makes its art by modulating viewers’ embodied sense of space. Grounded in phenomenology and media theory, the book offers a non-representational approach to the cinema that is in close conversation with theories of media and mediation, experimental film, and broader currents in cultural theory. Disputing against the deeply ingrained modernist habits of mind in film theory and aesthetics, and the attendant proclamations of cinema’s death (or at least its irrelevance), Cinema’s Bodily Illusions argues that the cinema’s proprioceptive aesthetics make it an urgent site of contemporary inquiry. In a moment when technologies seem to be disappearing from view, the cinema orchestrates an encounter with technology that is simultaneously an encounter with a world onscreen.
Introduction
Authors: Richmond Scott C.
Published: May 2017

The introduction of Cinema's Bodily Illusions offers an overview of proprioceptive aesthetics as a problem in contemporary film and film theory. It lays out the problems of the book: proprioception and the ecological approach, the critique of modernism, and the technicity of the cinema.
Proprioception, The Écart
Authors: Richmond Scott C.
Published: May 2017

Using Godfrey Reggio’s highly kinesthetic film Koyaanisqatsi as a case study, the fourth chapter analyzes how proprioceptive aesthetics not only emphasizes the formation of onscreen worlds, but also thematizes viewers’ embodiment through its modulation of proprioception. It continue the project of bringing Gibson and Merleau-Ponty together, showing how Gibson’s theories of proprioception intersect with Merleau-Ponty’s late doctrine of the Écart, or the paradoxical separation from but continuity with the world.
Introduction
Authors: LeCavalier Jesse
Published: May 2017

The introduction of The Rule of Logistics establishes logistics as the way to understand Walmart’s architecture. It outlines some of the key concerns of the book before providing a portrait of the company as much more than just a retailer.
Territory
Authors: LeCavalier Jesse
Published: May 2017

The fifth chapter returns to Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, to investigate the urban consequences of the region’s transformation because of the concentration of wealth and management expertise generated by the retailer.
Introduction
Authors: Karjanen David J.
Published: May 2017

The author begins The Servant Class City with an introduction to one of their friends, the entrepreneur Raymond, and the odd jobs he does to earn a living. To some observers, Raymond’s situation and outlook is frustrating; he is obviously a hard worker, so why doesn’t he just learn a trade or start his own business? The barriers to either, however, are multiple. It is not from the lack of trying; but rather, the structures of opportunity have shifted, making it difficult to attain any level of economic security or move up economically through greater income. The book specifically examines the unique economic structures of the city of San Diego, California.
Working in the Hospitality Industry
Authors: Karjanen David J.
Published: May 2017

The third chapter is the first of the book’s study into different industries that specifically looks at job quality, including wages, benefits, and working conditions. It looks specifically at the ‘hospitality industry’, such as restaurants and hotels, which provide thousands of entry-level positions for the labour force of San Diego. Overall, it is characterized as a low-wage industry that is labour intensive and employs large numbers of low-income workers, immigrants, and people of color.
Working Retail in the Inner City
Authors: Karjanen David J.
Published: May 2017

The fourth chapter looks more closely at employment in the retail sector, noting the poor job quality and challenges to workers in the industry. It first looks at the general trends in the industry that ultimately have an influence on employment practices and job quality. In the second section it discusses the promotion of retail in the inner city by developers and planning bodies, and in the final section it looks closely at job quality, career ladders, and case studies of issues related to working in retail.
The Low-Income Trap
Authors: Karjanen David J.
Published: May 2017

The eighth chapter looks at the challenges that the inner city and working poor have in terms of economic mobility based on a lack of economic or financial resources. This is especially true for the servant class economy, as not only are the structures of opportunity limited, but also the barriers to movement are increasingly severe, making the relative probability of escaping the bottom of the urban-class strata far less likely.
Conclusion
Authors: Shaw Ian G. R.
Published: May 2017

The conclusion of Predator Empire, while in some way recapping some of the major themes in the book, is centered on the idea of the passage from the U.S. social security state to the national security state (i.e. the Predator Empire), and how this has created an unaccountable and alienated form of government control.
Parallel Lines
Authors: Hirsh Max
Published: May 2017

The first chapter of the book focuses on the construction of a railway corridor built in the 1990s to connect Hong Kong's airport to its downtown. It contrasts the normative projections that informed its design with the heterodox uses that characterizes its now day-to-day operations. The chapter discusses on how several sites along the corridor have been appropriated by budget air travelers, such as Mainland Chinese tourists, lower middle-class Hongkongers, and Filipino domestic helpers, as an informal means of traveling cheaply to the airport. Melvin Webber's concept of “channel capacity” is used to theorize the insertion of these passengers into the everyday spaces of a suburban new town and to critique the failures of transport designers to adequately plan for their needs.
Living Cargo
Authors: Blevins Steven
Published: May 2017

Living Cargo offers a wide-ranging study of contemporary literatures, films, visual arts and performances by writers and artists who live and work in the UK but who also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean. Grounded and theoretically nuanced, the book considers how contemporary black British writers and artists engage with the long history of European colonization, in particular the colonial archive, to reframe the dominant narratives of multi-cultural Britain that emerged in the post-war era. Surveying a wide range of contemporary literary, visual, and performance-based creative work, the book looks from works of fiction by Fred D’Aguiar, David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, Caryl Phillips, and Dorothea Smartt; works of film and video by Inge Blackman and Isaac Julien; and public art and gallery installations by Yinka Shonibare, Graham Mortimer Evelyn, and Hew Locke; to the bespoke style of fashion icon Ozwald Boateng.
History Unhoused
Authors: Blevins Steven
Published: May 2017

The introduction of Living Cargo presents the book as a project of unhousing the past; about opening up archives and drawing history out; and about the opening out that occurs when history goes public. It is also about the social, political, and ethical demands such openings make on public and private lives; and about the publics and counterpublics that are produced when history is on the move. When history is unhoused, when it travels narratively, visually, performatively its movements help bind people together, as surely as its institutional enclosure helps keep them apart. In other words, this book is about the black public cultures of postcolonial Britain; the particular historical resonances that join together many disparate communities in the UK under and beyond the banner of the nation; and the transnational circuits of exchange economic, social, political, affective that takes British colonial history for a ride.
Living Rough
Authors: Blevins Steven
Published: May 2017

The second chapter offers an extended reading of A Harlot’s Progress that illustrates the novel’s spectacular orchestration of far-flung art-historical citations taken from the social satires of William Hogarth. By depicting the search of an eighteenth-century abolitionist for an authentic, first-person account of the violence of slavery, the novel underscores the condition of human life at the intersection of law and commerce, and the problematic relationship between the reading public and the instances of cruelty on which they are easily transfixed.
Compound Fractures
Authors: Blevins Steven
Published: May 2017

The third chapter considers the ambivalent role of the law in the geography of colonial biopolitics by examining three of Caryl Phillips’s novels. It addresses the relationship between Phillips’ self-reflexive historiography and the conditions of precarity they depict, underscoring the continuity between the biopolitical institution and instrument of the colonial modernity in the contemporary forms of human bio-cargo that arise in its wake.
Troubled Man
Authors: Sojoyner Damien M.
Published: May 2017

The fourth chapter presents the harsh realities that young Black men face in the gendered social hierarchy that presents a very limited set of, often problematic, solutions as models. Situated within a society that advances violent expressions of masculine behaviour, the stories of Black male youths explore the consequences of when Black males reject these notions of masculinity.
The Strait
Authors: Kinney Rebecca J.
Published: May 2017

Beautiful Wasteland concludes by wrapping together the work of the narratives of focus into a final discussion of Detroit and its contemporary relationship to water. Detroit in the second decade of the twenty-first century is constructed by many as a place of beauty and possibility, in need of discipline. This narrative can be seen prominently in the water crisis that played out in the city of Detroit in 2014 and emerged as are sounding global narrative about the divisions between “new Detroit” and “old Detroit.” As the story spins between governmental incompetence and corporation and a corporate enterprise, the message becomes clear: metropolitan Detroit cooperation is hastened and easy to accommodate when it most benefits metropolitan Detroit.
Becoming Beautiful
Authors: Springer Simon
Published: May 2017

The introduction begins the book with an argument that in order to shake off the chains of statistic, capitalistic, homophobic, racist, sexist, and imperialistic ideas, to ‘become beautiful’, a reorientation of geographical thinking must be directed toward an anarchist ideology. Singular ontological modes that favor one particular way of doing things disavows geography by failing to understand the spatial as an ongoing, mutable assemblage that is intimately bound to temporality. By infusing geography with anarchism, a spirit of rebellion can be realized that forgoes the politics of waiting for change to come at the behest of elected leaders and instead engages new possibilities of mutual aid through direct actions.
Global Interventions
Authors: Lisle Debbie
Published: May 2017

Complex military interventions throughout the 1990s sought to redress the violence of previous R&R experiences by re-orienting soldiers through humanitarian and egalitarian values. Changing post-Cold War geopolitics also led to the rise of ‘Dark Tourism’ as places like South Africa, Israel, Palestine, Cyprus and Northern Ireland tried to increase tourism revenue at the same time as commemorating and exhibiting their difficult pasts.
Thinking the Unthinkable
Authors: Ghamari-Tabrizi Behrooz
Published: May 2017

The chapter draws a detailed picture of how the revolutionary movements in Iran began and the contingencies within which it unfolded. It highlights its religious character and shows how that characteristic manifested itself in the revolution’s symbolic expressions and rhythm.
Expulsion and What Is Not
Authors: Silva Kumarini
Published: May 2017

The third chapter looks into the corollary of who belongs by questioning how the American society recognizes those who do not belong. Examining various examples of film and media, it looks to how non-belonging is produced through the framework of brown as an identification of deviance—as either humorous or terrifying. Extending this argument about belonging and connecting it to the anxieties surrounding shifts in contemporary global politics and economics, the chapter juxtaposes the construction of space and place outside the homeland. By using humor in the space and place of visual representation, narrative media confirms the antibrown sentiments by highlighting their differences from a mythic American “norm” that is largely signified through Whiteness.
Wielding Identity to Organize Warfare
Authors: Silva Kumarini
Published: May 2017

Brown Threat concludes with a revisit to its theories of brownness in order to broadly summarize its core values and apply it to recent examples of brown (mis)identification. Accelerated by the events of 9/11, identity (racial and otherwise) has shifted to identification to maintain a form of social control that benefits those in power and maintains the paradoxical fiction that America is welcoming to all but also discerning of who has the right to its exceptionalism. The practices, both popular and political, of this paradoxical fiction manifest in forms of racist governmentality that are systematically and routinely evoked.
Bios, Pathos, and Life Emergent
Authors: Arif Yasmeen
Published: May 2017

The fifth and final chapter of Life, Emergent brings together the various strands of life and the social that have woven a swath of arguments that directs an excavation of life within an emphatic imagination of the social. This essay also approaches a reflection on the possible nature of a politics of and in life that the discussions so far lead to.
The Thing about Cities
Authors: Martin Reinhold
Published: May 2017

The third essay look into the city as an enigmatic, technical “thing” (rather than a fetishized “object”) that stores the memory of possible revolutions in the everyday life.
Horizons of Thought
Authors: Martin Reinhold
Published: May 2017

The fifth essay examines utopia, ecology, and science fiction, with reference to the imagined colonization of Mars and the actual biopolitical apartheid on Earth.
Beijing in Detroit
Authors: Martin Reinhold
Published: May 2017

The ninth essay studies “Detroit” as synecdoche: deindustrialization, Chinese capitalism, “creative destruction,” and “emergency management” as investment strategy.
Inter/National Aesthetics
Authors: Salaita Steven
Published: May 2017

The fourth chapter examines a range of Native poets to see how they invoke Palestine as a theme and symbol. Here, the author treats Palestine as an aesthetic in Native poetry, not simply a site of political, as to highlight thematic connections across a relatively wide range of work rather than identify a sort of sociopolitical phenomena. In this way, the consistent device of openendedness and ambiguity and self-reflection is that, in the hands of Native poets, Palestine always becomes Indian country.
Reflections on Historical Anthropology
Authors: Siu Helen F.
Published: May 2017

This essay targets a Chinese scholarly audience, who deserves a coherent presentation of the analytical themes that my South China colleagues and I have been concerned with. One cannot ignore history when one studies the unifying and diversifying cultural processes in an entity one terms “China.” Years of field research in South China has made one appreciate the contexts when regional cultures and histories were made, and how they were represented in relation to real and imaginary political centers. Collectively, we have strived to be empirically grounded as well as informed by critical social theories. Key concepts highlighted in this essay are: analytical pursuit of moving targets, structuring, human agency, social practice, the cultural language of power, locality and translocality, and inter-Asian connectivity. We explore self-reflective field methods and apply critical reading to historical texts and cultural events. We might have started our intellectual journeys from South China, but our concerns have taken us far beyond, connecting oceans and landmasses across the globe in multi-disciplinary terms.
Images
Authors: Siu Helen F.
Published: May 2017

I was initially concerned with a central theme in China’s development strategy: rural industrialization. Since late 1958, the regime had promoted small-scale enterprises at the commune and brigade levels of administration. These were to provide the communities with income, employment, services for agriculture, and industrial skills. By mobilizing local initiative for self-reliant development, the regime hoped to avoid an exodus from the villages to cities, the social and political consequences of which have continued to plague many agrarian societies in the transition to a modern economy. My political attitudes at the time made me eager to learn how the development of these enterprises facilitated what I believed to be a gradual, benign integration of the vast countryside into a modern socialist state, and how parochial concerns of family and community might eventually be transformed to identifications with party and nation. The Chinese road to socialism, I thought, might become a model for agrarian societies undergoing the pains of modern development.
Recycling Rituals
Authors: Siu Helen F.
Published: May 2017

Scholars who observed the lack of color in rural social life in the Maoist era have also witnessed and marveled at the liberalizing energies released by the recent decade of reforms. Unprecedented movements of goods, capital, and people across the rural landscape have been accompanied by a flourishing of popular rituals. The phenomenon poses interesting questions about culture change. Has Maoist politics ironically preserved the popular culture of peasant communities to the extent that, once the party-state attempted to retreat from society, popular culture regained its former momentum to influence the process of modernization? Or, has peasant culture been so touched by the Maoist programs that what we observe today are new reconstitutions of tradition for coping with contemporary existence defined by the socialist state, rather than cultural remnants that survived the encounter with that state? On the basis of fieldwork carried out in 1986 in Nanxi zhen (a pseudonym), a market town in the heart of the Pearl River Delta known for the intensity of popular ritual activities in the past and the present, I will examine a set of rituals, especially those for funerals and weddings, and the meanings that practitioners attribute to them in order to address the issue of cultural continuity and change in rural China today.
Grounding Displacement
Authors: Siu Helen F.
Published: May 2017

This historical-ethnographic study of village enclaves in Guangzhou explores the intensified entrenchment of villagers in a Maoist past when they faced market fluidities of a post-reform present. It underscores a rural–urban spatiality and a cultural divide between villagers, migrants, and urbanites that are simultaneously transgressed and reinforced. It highlights discursive categories and institutional practices that incarcerate the residents, who juggle lingering socialist parameters with compelling market forces and state development priorities. Connectivity and exclusion, agency and victimization, groundedness and dislocation as lived experience are captured by the historically thick social ethos in the enclaves. This article rethinks issues of emplacement and displacement, dichotomy, and process.
Hong Kong as an International Tourism Space
Authors: Mark Chi-Kwan
Published: May 2017

After 1945 globalization and mass tourism were mutually reinforcing developments. A traditionally free travel space, Hong Kong was part and parcel of the globalization of tourism. Major international and regional airlines operated in and through Hong Kong; new hotels sprang up whilst the older ones expanded in size; and the city became the ’shopping paradise’ of the world. For Americans, whether businessmen, leisure travelers, or military personnel on rest and recreation, Hong Kong was one of the most desirable destinations in Asia, second only to Japan. Yet the globalization of American tourism was a highly politicized process. Due to its strategic location, Hong Kong became embroiled in the geopolitics of the Vietnam War and the political spillover of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In the mid-1960s, Beijing repeatedly protested against what it claimed was the US Navy’s use of Hong Kong as a “base of aggression” against North Vietnam. Meanwhile, in 1967 left-wing elements in Hong Kong carried out their own Cultural Revolution-style struggle against the authorities. Sandwiched between American demands for ’R & R’ facilities on the one hand, and the Chinese protests and local Maoist challenges on the other, the Hong Kong government had to deliberate on the future of American tourism.
Afterword Cold War Hong Kong
Authors: Roberts Priscilla
Published: May 2017

Hong Kong was and is, as Prasenjit Duara points out in this volume, a place that escaped from the boundaries and constraints of the nation-state, one with the potential to trigger novel and perhaps hybrid institutional arrangements, tailored to its own circumstances, that might ultimately provide models for an increasingly globalized and interdependent world, one where the ways that states functioned were being adapted to meet changing demands. Neither a state nor even perhaps a genuine colony, it had the scope to devise creative solutions to whatever problems it might encounter. Cold War developments sometimes proved significant in this respect. Peter Hamilton argues that when, during the mid-1960s, Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon developed into a rather seedy red light district full of rowdy bars and down-market businesses catering to visiting US military personnel on R & R from the Vietnam War, this prompted both Hong Kong elites and ordinary people into organizing to protest against this transformation. In so doing, Hamilton believes, they brought into being a new kind of community activism, one that set political precedents for the future of Hong Kong....
The web of relationships
Authors: Hooper Beverley
Published: May 2017

Mao’s China was a striking example of Ulf Hannerz’s research finding that foreign correspondents were likely to stick together more closely ‘in cities where there were few of them’. This was particularly the case when ‘they were living under tough conditions and perhaps in an adversarial or at least closely guarded relationship with the host society and especially its government’. With a paucity of information at their disposal, Peking’s correspondents often shared whatever was available.
Warlords, History, and the Democratic Dream
Authors: Kam Tan See
Published: May 2017

This chapter explores the film’s historical situatedness in terms of specific events in China: the Wuhan uprising (1911), the Xinhai Revolution, the development of the Chinese Republic (1912), the Revolutionary Alliance’s Kuomintang, the elections of 1913, the Republican dream of electoral democracy and warlordism. Leaders, like Yuan Shikai and in particular Sun Yat-sen, alongside fictionalized entities such as the two warlords, General Tsao (Cao) and General Tun (Duan), and the revolutionary fervor, democratic reforms and dreams, monarchist revivalism and revolutions which variously went along with them, are central to reading the film’s fiction-historical continuum (set in Peiping 1913) and for rethinking and reimagining the Chinese democratic dream of the Republican period. The result is that Peking Opera Blues generally demonstrates that any envisioned Chinese democracy was, then, and most especially now for contemporary Hong Kong, still elusive.
Reconstructing Sha Po’s Landscapes and Lifeways
Authors: Atha Mick , Yip Kennis
Published: May 2017

In Chapter 8 all the strands of evidence are drawn together within an overarching synthetic analysis of patterns of human activity through time, which are then interpreted in terms of the development, use, and past experience of Sha Po’s multi-period cultural landscape. The shifting patterns of human activity during the 6,500-year span of the study also permit the changing backbeach landform to be modelled as it expanded westward through time. Social landscape reconstructions, aided by artist’s impression drawings, focus in particular on activities evidenced during the Bronze Age, Six-Dynasties-Tang period, and Qing to early twentieth century.
Introduction
Authors: Coates Jennifer
Published: May 2017

The introduction describes the historical contexts and theoretical framework of the book, beginning with an outline of the method of research. A brief literature review of affect theory in the Japanese context is followed by an introduction to Yoshimoto Takaaki’s Communal Fantasies (Kyōdōgensō ron, 1968). Giles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition (1968) is juxtaposed with Yoshimoto’s philosophical investigation of repeated tropes in Japanese cultural production to form a theoretical framework for the analysis of selected repeated motifs in female cinematic representation that follows. Social changes during the occupation of Japan (1945-1952), particularly as regards roles and rights for women, are presented as key socio-political and historical contexts for the analyses of popular film texts which follow. The chapter concludes with a sample case study analysis of Mizoguchi Kenji’s Five Women Around Utamaro (1946).
Schoolgirls and Bourgeois Daughters
Authors: Coates Jennifer
Published: May 2017

Moving from domestic to public female character tropes, this chapter investigates trends in the representation of young women on-screen. Youthful female representation is contextualized in the ‘New Life’ discourses of the early post-war era. This chapter engages with extant scholarship on the shōjo, making a case for the young female characters of the early post-war as successors to the earlier shōjo characterizations. The case of the Hiroshima Maidens and early atomic discourse positions the shōjo as victim, while depictions of youthful female sexuality lend the trope connotations of hope and post-war rebirth. Case studies include Spring Awakens (Haru no mezame, Naruse Mikio, 1947) and Children of the Bomb (Genbaku no ko, Shindō Kaneto, 1952).
Bodies of Excess
Authors: Coates Jennifer
Published: May 2017

The final chapter deals with recurring motifs that resist categorization, motifs which can be understood as excessive or abject. From the streetwalking sex workers known as panpan, to the shape-shifting female monsters of the horror genre, this chapter considers the affective impacts of representations of the female Other. Excessive star personae such as that of Kyō Machiko are analysed alongside characterizations drawn from myth and legend to demonstrate that the female Other is a recurring trope throughout literature, film, and even journalism. The final section considers the excessive abject icon as a representation of the sublime. Case studies include Women of the Night (Yoru no onnatachi, Mizoguchi Kenji, 1948), White Beast (Shiroi yajū, Naruse Mikio, 1950) and Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon, Suzuki Seijun, 1964).
Conclusion
Authors: Coates Jennifer
Published: May 2017

The concluding chapter considers the implications of repetition on film, returning to the work of Gilles Deleuze and Yoshimoto Takaaki introduced in the first chapter to ask; Does repetitive film content shape our understanding of the world? What kinds of limits to our understanding can repetitive imagery create? And finally, what kind of media content would help us to imagine new and more equal ways of living?
The Draft
Authors: Bettez David J.
Published: May 2017

After much debate, the federal government initiated a selective service system, the “draft,” to supply men for a vastly expanded military. Kentucky was given its quota of men and established a state selective service office directed by Major Henry Rhodes, who reported to state adjutant general Tandy Ellis. Governor Stanley appointed registration boards in the counties to oversee four national registration days, as well as local draft boards to process the men after they were registered. Guided by policies and advice from the director of the US selective service system and the army provost marshal, General Enoch Crowder, Rhodes dealt with many issues and advised the county boards on issues such as nonregistrants, exemptions, and men who ignored draft calls. Because of the tireless efforts of Major Rhodes and the many local board members, the draft mechanism worked well in Kentucky, where few men failed to show up for service.
End of the War and Aftermath
Authors: Bettez David J.
Published: May 2017

This chapter covers the Spanish flu epidemic’s effects on the state; the Kentucky Council of Defense’s conference on state problems in March 1919; efforts to commemorate war participants in various ways (such as the University of Kentucky’s Memorial Hall and local memorials); and the experience of one Kentucky Gold Star Mother, Nola Miller Kinne Fogg, on her US government–sponsored pilgrimage to her son’s grave in France in the early 1930s. The chapter also draws some conclusions about Kentucky and the Great War, including how the state coalesced in support of the war despite political, economic, and social differences.