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Georges Bizet's Carmen
Authors: Furman Nelly 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
Since 1875 the heroine of the most performed opera in the world, Carmen has become a universal cultural icon. She has appeared in a multitude of ballets, on stage as well as ice rinks, and in some eighty international films. The success of Bizet’s opera owns a lot to the libretto’s singular accounting of the 1845 short story on which it is based. In her close textual analyses of Ludovic Halévy’s and Henri Meilhac’s libretto and Prosper Mérimée’s novella, the author strives to account for the multiple aspects of Carmen’s attraction that support Georges Bizet’s acclaimed musical score.
China’s Global Cultural Interactions
Authors: Breslin Shaun 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
As China continues to “rise” in world affairs, its international image is becoming more and more important. The Chinese Communist Party and government has become interested in—some would say obsessed with—its international image. In recent years it has sponsored mega events such as the Shanghai Expo and Olympic Games, G-20 Summit, and Belt and Road Forums. Beijing has also established Confucius Institutes (CIs) and classrooms worldwide, and has internationalized the Chinese media. This chapter examines China’s “soft power” and traces the historical precedents behind the contemporary promotion of Chinese culture abroad. It finds that, despite enormous investment, China’s internatonal image continues to be mixed and challenged by a number of domestic impediments.
Embodied Genealogies
Authors: Cisneros Natalie 
Published: February 2020

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This chapter shows how Friedrich Nietzsche’s work on genealogy can be read critically and strategically alongside Gloria Anzaldúa’s thought to develop a conception of “embodied genealogy” as a mode of critical, historical, and transformative philosophical practice. Anzaldúa’s thought resonates with Nietzsche’s conception of genealogy, a method of philosophical practice that sheds critical light on dominant ways of knowing by calling into question assumptions about historical necessity and rational progress. Reading Anzaldúa’s work through this lens sheds light on her contributions to philosophical conversations about knowledge, identity, and community. Anzaldúa’s work can also be read as a productive critique and necessary supplement to a Nietzschean conception of genealogical ways of knowing. Considering Anzaldúa’s thought and Nietzschean genealogy together yields a rich philosophical ground for thinking through questions about knowledge, embodiment, and identity in general, and the intellectual and political practice of Latina feminist philosophy in particular.
Between Hermeneutic Violence and Alphabets of Survival
Authors: Flores Ruíz Elena 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
This essay addresses structural violence against Latinas by looking at the existential toll different forms of cultural violence take on us. In particular, it looks at linguistic violence and the role lesser-known violences play in the intergenerational continuation of colonial violence, such as hermeneutic violence. Defined as violence done to systems of meaning and interpretation, hermeneutic violence is discussed at length in relation to the experience of harm and injury. The essay further explores some resistant epistemic practices Latina feminists have generated to address systemic violence. The work of Gloria Anzaldúa is elaborated as an example of resistant epistemic practices.
Cámara Queer
Authors: Ortega Mariana 
Published: February 2020

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This essay examines photographic representations of queer Latinidad. A longing to discover a photographic history of Latina lesbian desire prompts a discussion of queerness in the context of Latinx love, sexuality, and desire. By way of examples of photographic representations, queer Latinidad is presented as complex and capable of encompassing paradoxical but expansive, nondichotomous understandings of sexuality and of gender presentation. Such photographic representations also allow for disidentifications that introduce the possibility of desires that cut across races and racism. Following Muñoz, queer Latinidad is ultimately connected to a sense of longing and melancholia that is resistant in the face of the various erasures of queer Latinidad, both in the context of queer theory and in the context of everydayness.
Hope in Children of Men and Serenity
Authors: Cubitt Sean 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
Building on the melancholia of the films analysed thus far, a comparison between Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 Children of Men, based in a world in mourning for its future, and the space opera Serenity (Joss Whedon, 2005), which concludes the story arc of Whedon’s TV series Firefly, gives an opportunity to further the discussion of history through an analysis of two mythic formations of hope, the redeemer and the frontier respectively. The chapter rounds off the theme of personal redemption versus the redemption of the collective, and the theme of obligation to the past necessitating a politics not of a deferred future but of redeeming the present in the name of the numberless dead, by an analysis of what does and does not count as human in the two films.
Ecocritique and Anecdote
Authors: Cubitt Sean 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
Section 1 starts by considering the central notion of this book: a “ecocritique”. The ecocritique recognises that the good life for all includes the well-being of the world we are involved in at every level from the cellular to the cosmic. It is all encompassing. Section 1 then considers how the term “anecdote” relates to ecocritique. Anecdotes provide a peculiarly powerful tool for finding out the meaning of living well, as well as the answering the oft-asked question: who is this “we”? The beauty of anecdotes is that they operate in a non-contemporaneous time. They operate equally well in the past, present, and future. A primary political and ecocritical task of anecdotal method, therefore, is to recognise this hybrid temporality, and to free and maintain its capacity to generate new futures and new pasts.
Sovereignty, City, and the People
Authors: Kaicker Abhishek 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
In 1638 the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan embarked on his most ambitious architectural project: the building of a new Delhi in his own name. Beginning with a discussion of the development of a distinctly Mughal discourse of sovereignty centered on an ideal of the ruler’s heaven-granted fortune to rule (daulat), this chapter shows how the new city of Shahjahanabad was an enunciation of the discourse of sovereignty in bricks and mortar. A site of imperial power, Islamic piety, commercial prosperity, and urbane pleasure, the city was built to mediate an idealized relation between the king and the people. The second part of this chapter traces the unintended consequences of this act: the growth of a prosperous city, in which the forces of commerce caused the rise of new elites and the growth of a large and unruly underclass.
Poetry and the Public in Aurangzeb’s Delhi
Authors: Kaicker Abhishek 
Published: February 2020

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In 1658, the emperor Aurangzeb began his long reign on the Mughal throne. This chapter shows how Aurangzeb’s vision of sovereignty diverged from that of his predecessors, in lessening the emphasis on the otherworldly gift of daulat and more on adherence with the law (sharīʿa). This process, which was accompanied by an increasing emphasis on Sunni piety at court and the broader development of a bureaucratic juridical infrastructure for the empire, was designed to subordinate the realm’s many Muslim communities into a unitary ‘Community of Muslims’ obedient to the emperor. But such interventions in Mughal society would also provoke a critical response, couched in the language of satire, and is apparent in the works of the poets Niʿmat Khan-i ʿAli and Mir Jaʿfar Zatalli, which are compared here. More broadly, this chapter argues, the forces of commercialization powered the circulation of the practices of satirical poetry between courtly assemblies and the wider world of the city, shaping an urban domain of public criticism that lay outside the control of imperial authority.
Daulat’s Flight
Authors: Kaicker Abhishek 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
In 1719, a group of high noblemen from the clan of the Sayyids of Barha deposed the Mughal ruler Farrukh Siyar and replaced him with another prince. Such an act of unprecedented violence against the kingly body shook the established ideals of imperial authority. The regicide was understood, explained, debated, and justified in the admonitory histories that were written by observers of this moment of crisis, who vainly struggled to establish a new ideal of sovereignty. Yet the king and his nobility were not the only actors in this drama. For, as this chapter demonstrates, this convulsion of politics at the highest levels of the empire witnessed the forceful intervention of a new actor: the people of the city. While the popular action was dismissed by elite observers, these pages demonstrate how the city’s ordinary folk rejected the attempt by the nobility to change the structure of power.
Introduction
Authors: Callahan William A. 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
This introduction outlines the main theoretical, methodological, and empirical goals of the book, which are argued in more detail (and with more references) in later chapters. It explains how visual images need to be appreciated not just in terms of their ideological-value, but also in terms of their affect-work: not just what they mean, but also how they make us feel, both as individuals and as collectives. It outlines the book’s original analytical framework, which juxtaposes (1) the social construction of visual meaning with (2) the visual provocation of social orders, world orders, and “affective communities of sense.” It introduces the image/artifact distinction to explain why the book looks at both images (photographs, films, and art) and artifacts (maps, veils, walls, gardens, and cyberspace). Since much critical analysis is dominated by deconstructions of “Western” visual images, the introduction starts to examine how visuals from Asia and the Middle East challenge our understanding of international politics. It concludes with a summary of what the chapters cover.
Dynamic Dyads
Authors: Callahan William A. 
Published: February 2020

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Rather than see visibility and visuality as opposing strategies, Chapter 3 argues that both are valuable for an analysis of sensible politics. It figures them as complementary opposites that are joined in the productive tension of a dynamic dyad. It shows how dynamic dyads offer a critical approach to Eurocentrism and East/West figurations and introduces other dynamic dyads—inside/outside, Civilization/barbarism, civility/martiality—that are further developed in later chapters. In this way it looks to Chinese concepts, practices, and experiences to engage in a comparative analysis of visual international politics.
Methods, Ethics, and Filmmaking
Authors: Callahan William A. 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
This short introduction explains how Part II, “Visual Images,” engages with existing debates in visual international politics through chapters addressing the aesthetic turn in international relations (Chapter 4), visual securitization (Chapter 5), and ethical witnessing (Chapter 6). To make these arguments, it uses a range of visual images—photographs, documentary films, feature films, online videos, and visual art—to discuss visuality/visibility, ideology/affect, and cultural governance/resistance. Using these examples, Part II examines how visual culture studies and visual IR have used the visibility strategy to deconstruct visual images in order to reveal their hidden ideology. It argues that while exploring important issues, this research agenda is also limited by its hermeneutic mode of analysis and by its narrow focus on Euro-American images of P2.P3security, war, and atrocity. It seeks to push beyond this verbally-inflected mode of analysis to see not just what images mean, but what they can “do” in provoking affective communities of sense. Part II thus employs comparative analysis and critical aesthetics to juxtapose concepts, practices, and experiences from different times and places.
Walls as Barriers, Gateways, and the Sublime
Authors: Callahan William A. 
Published: February 2020

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Chapter 9 continues the exploration of how visual artifacts can be sensory spaces and infrastructures of feeling that provoke unexpected affective communities of sense. It is common to criticize post–Cold War walls, especially the US-Mexico barrier and Israel’s West Bank barrier, as ineffective and immoral. This chapter, however, problematizes such arguments by using the unlikely juxtaposition of the Great Wall of China and the conceptual dynamics of gaps and loosening/tightening to explore (1) how walls can be a rational security policy; (2) how they are not simply barriers, but can be complex gateways for flows; and (3) how they are not simply texts waiting to be decoded—they are also sites of nonnarrative and nonlinear affective experience that can even excite the sublime. This critical juxtaposition of walls first explores what walls can tell us about the politics of borders, identity, and foreign policy, then considers how, as infrastructures of feeling, walls are examples not simply of ideology, but also of the affective experience of horror and wonder.
Delaying Doomsday
Authors: Mehta Rupal N. 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
Why are states willing to give up their nuclear weapons programs? This book presents a new theory for how external inducements supplied by the United States can convince even the most committed of proliferators to abandon weapons pursuit. Existing theories focus either on carrots or sticks. I explore how using both positive and negative inducements, in the shadow of military force, can persuade both friends and foes not to continue their nuclear weapons pursuit. I draw on worldwide cross-national data on nuclear reversal, case studies of Iran and North Korea, among other countries, and interviews with diplomats, policy-makers, and analysts. I show that the majority of proliferators have been persuaded to reverse their nuclear weapons programs when offered incentives from the United States. Moreover, I demonstrate that these tools are especially effective during periods of leadership transition and can work on both allies and adversaries. My theory and evidence also suggest a broader conception of counterproliferation than currently exists, identifying how carrots and sticks used together can accomplish one of the international community’s most important policy objectives.
Basic Skills II
Authors: Churchill Larry R. 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
The four skills for ethics described in this chapter are imaginative skill, the ability to expand the reach of our empathy to include a wider range of people; assertive skill, the need to finally choose from among the competing values the ones we will embrace and live by; connective skill, that is, linking goodness with happiness—the kind of personal flourishing not available through fame and fortune; and narrative skill, which is our ability to tell true stories about ourselves and others. One key ingredient in narrative capacity is the ability to see that people intersect at different points at their life trajectories and with different moral concerns. The ethics of narration is the effort to tell truthful stories about these complex events.
Inside The Church of Almighty God
Authors: Introvigne Massimo 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
Branded “the new Falun Gong” by local authorities, The Church of Almighty God is today the most persecuted religious movement in China. Thousands of police officers are deployed full time to identify and arrest its members. Hundreds of thousands are in jail. Yet the movement continues to grow. Authorities (perhaps exaggerating) claim it has some four million members. They also accuse it of serious crimes. This book is based on interviews with hundreds of members of the once secretive movement, as well as Chinese police officers hunting it. It presents the movement’s origins and history and its idiosyncratic theology, centered in the belief that Jesus Christ has returned in our time in the shape of a Chinese woman, worshipped as Almighty God, to eradicate the sinful nature of humans. It explores the church’s minimalistic but rich worship practices and tells the dramatic story of its persecution in China. It discusses why the movement grew, and grew so rapidly. It also describes the struggling communities of asylum seekers in various countries and addresses legal and social issues about their status as refugees. A candid look at the criminal accusations, largely fabricated by Chinese propaganda, completes the book. The conclusion places The Church of Almighty God within the context of Xi Jinping’s reshaping of Chinese policy on religions.
The Suicide of Ms. Liu and Other Chinese Persecution Stories
Authors: Introvigne Massimo 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
The chapter tells the stories of persecution, arrest, detention, torture, and in some cases extrajudicial killing of nine members of The Church of Almighty God in China. All the stories reveal the real names of the victims and are supported by documents filed with the Human Rights Council of the United Nations during the 2018 Universal Periodic Review of China and published on the website of the United Nations. They evidence a consistent pattern of repression and abuse. The victims were arrested for no other crime than being active in a banned religious group. Members of their families were also threatened and persecuted. Extra-judicial killings were covered up, and families were told that natural causes were responsible for the victims’ deaths.
China’s Struggle against the Xie Jiao
Authors: Introvigne Massimo 
Published: February 2020

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The chapter discusses two key notions of contemporary Chinese policy about religion, “sinicization” and xie jiao. Both words have a venerable tradition in China, but are used by the regime with new meanings. “Sinicization” was once used to indicate that organizations operating in China should have Chinese rather than foreign leaders, but it now means that leaders should be selected, or at least approved, by the Chinese Communist Party. This also applies to religious organizations. Xie jiao is often translated as “evil cults,” but that translation is misleading. Xie jiao is a label used since the late Ming dynasty to indicate movements the authorities regard as antigovernment and socially dangerous. The politics of singling out and banning xie jiao was passed from Imperial to Nationalist China and then to the CCP regime. An official list of groups banned as xie jiao was reinstated in 1995. The Chinese Criminal Code now includes Article 300, making being active in a xie jiao a crime.
The Church of Almighty God
Authors: Introvigne Massimo 
Published: February 2020

Abstract
The chapter describes the origins and early history of The Church of Almighty God. It originated in 1991 around the revelations of a woman, whose name is (probably) Yang Xiangbin, who was later recognized as Almighty God. It then acquired an effective administrative leader, a man called Zhao Weishan. The community went through a formative period of trials and tribulations, at the end of which it recognized that the woman uttering the new revelations was the second coming of Jesus Christ, the incarnated Almighty God. Around this belief a complete system of dispensationalist theology grew, distinguishing three ages of the history of humanity, the Age of Law, the Age of Grace, and the present Age of Kingdom, which will eventually lead into the glorious Age of the Millennial Kingdom.
Escaping China
Authors: Introvigne Massimo 
Published: February 2020

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As of September 2019, more than five thousand members of The Church of Almighty God have escaped China and are seeking asylum in several different countries. The three largest groups are in the United States, South Korea, and Italy. With some notable exceptions (New Zealand, Canada, Finland, and Sweden), in most countries refugees experience problems in being granted asylum. The chapter discusses the sources of these difficulties and the most frequent objections leading to negative decisions. These decisions may have tragic consequences, as evidenced by case studies of refugees who had to return to China and were promptly arrested there.
The Plight of Western Religion
Authors: Gifford Paul 
Published: February 2020

‘Religion’ can be used to mean all kinds of things, but a substantive definition––based on the premise of superhuman powers––can clarify much. It allows us to attempt to differentiate religion from culture, ethnicity, morality and politics.This definition of religion necessarily implies a perception of reality. Until recent centuries in the West, and in most cultures still, the ordinary, natural and immediate way of understanding and experiencing reality was in terms of otherworldly or spiritual forces. However, a cognitive shift has taken place through the rise of science and its subsequent technological application.This new consciousness has not disproved the existence of spiritual forces, but has led to the marginalization of the other-worldly, which even Western churches seem to accept. They persist, but increasingly as pressure groups promoting humanist values.Claims of ‘American exceptionalism’ in this regard are misleading. Obama’s religion, Evangelical support for Trump, and the mega-church message of success in the capitalist system can all be cultural and political phenomena. This eclipsing of the other-worldly constitutes a watershed in human history, with profound consequences not just for religious institutions but for our entire world order.
Cognitive Imagining and Literary Fictions
Authors: Gilmore Jonathan 
Published: February 2020

AbstractThis chapter offers a sketch of the book’s general explanatory framework: a cluster of theories and commitments about mental representation identified as the cognitive theory of the imagination. This chapter shows where that general theory must be modified and supplemented to be employed in the characterization and explanation of the particular kind of imagining constitutive of engagements with works of literature. In particular, this chapter identifies a neglected explanatory significance for theories of the imagination and truth in fiction of attending to fictions from an external standpoint (one that attends to, e.g., its genre, plot, style, and functions).