Cultural paradigm shifts, unstable funding sources, newly defined internal and external pressures, and a fractured public sphere have placed unprecedented pressure on theatrical institutions. Topics covered include equity, diversity, and inclusion within a theatrical context; the encroachment of right-wing policies and constituents on cultural ......
Topics covered include the evolving meaning of the "economic miracle" in developmentalist discourse; the relationship between economic miracles and authoritarian regimes/state violence; the pursuit of development in postcolonial nations and the allure of the miracle; the impacts on everyday life in the global South following failed economic ......
Topics covered include queer worldmaking among Orthodox Jewish gays and lesbians in Israel; the religious lives of Latina and Black trans activists Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson; the importance of engaging trans and queer studies in religion during a time of antitrans and antiqueer legislation; nonsecular transfeminism in Turkey; and the ......
In the face of accelerating climate change, anticapitalist environmental justice activists and elite tech corporations increasingly see eye to eye. Both envision solar-powered futures where renewable energy redresses gentrification, systemic racism, and underemployment. However, as Myles Lennon argues in Subjects of the Sun, solar power is no less ......
In the face of accelerating climate change, anticapitalist environmental justice activists and elite tech corporations increasingly see eye to eye. Both envision solar-powered futures where renewable energy redresses gentrification, systemic racism, and underemployment. However, as Myles Lennon argues in Subjects of the Sun, solar power is no less ......
Afro-Asian Entanglements in Transcontinental Uganda
In 1972, Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled close to 80,000 South Asians of Ugandan heritage from the country by dictatorial decree. In Insecurities of Expulsion, Anneeth Kaur Hundle revisits this weighty historical event, arguing that it is neither an exceptional nor a parochial event, neither a result of primordial Afro-South Asian racial ......
In recent decades, there has been a call for decentering knowledge in the social sciences and humanities, bringing to light perspectives from previously ignored or undervalued groups or areas of the world. Feminist epistemologies and postcolonial studies have led this trend. However, there has been less interest in the specific infrastructures and ......
In recent decades, there has been a call for decentering knowledge in the social sciences and humanities, bringing to light perspectives from previously ignored or undervalued groups or areas of the world. Feminist epistemologies and postcolonial studies have led this trend. However, there has been less interest in the specific infrastructures and ......
Geographies of Belonging Between Africa and the Caribbean
In An Unformed Map, Philip Janzen traces the intellectual trajectories of Caribbean people who joined the British and French colonial administrations in Africa between 1890 and 1930. Caribbean administrators grew up in colonial societies, saw themselves as British and French, and tended to look down on Africans. Once in Africa, however, they were ......
