Topics highlight worker responses during the postwar boom era and include a comparative analysis of the social democracy of the United States and that of West Germany; inflation as the underside of liberal governance; the "Fordist" trap for Italian women; humanizing the workplace during the Sixties Revolution; and the many sides of the Catholic ......
Topics covered include a postcolonial reading of African spirituality, sexuality, and "the Erotic" through Mbari art in Igboland, Nigeria; Audre Lorde's experience with the Black-Indigenous relations in the Eurasian Borderlands; self-representation by female ex-combatants in Peru; militarization, postcoloniality, and the poetics of historical ......
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 a framework for analyzing the relationships between space and sound; British Asian dance music as a reflection on the politics of genre and multiculture; Caribbean radio and Black technologies as the sound of Britain's dying colonialism; Black music as folk music in England; and sonic third worldism in the Eastern ......
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 ......
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 ......
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 ......
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 ......
