This essay is a personally and politically implicated account of the December 2008 youth uprising in Greece, by an academic who, along with a group of her colleagues, participated actively in “street action” and followed closely the discourses articulated around … Continue reading “"(Un)hooding" a Rebellion: The December 2008 Events in Athens”
Issue: Issue 101
Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire
vicente rafaelThis essay inquires into the relationship between translation and empire in the United States. It argues that such a relationship cannot be understood apart from a critical appreciation of the Americanization, which is to say, translation of English from an … Continue reading “Translation, American English, and the National Insecurities of Empire”
Performing the Global University
eng-beng limThis essay considers the phenomenon of the global university, particularly the trend of setting up satellite campuses, or “outposts,” in Asia and the Middle East. It tracks the global university as part of the Western university’s international knowledge system and … Continue reading “Performing the Global University”
Cartographic Irresolution and the Line of Control
ananya jahanara kabirThis essay examines the “Line of Control” (LOC) dividing the region of Jammu and Kashmir into two parts controlled by India and Pakistan, respectively. It does so to establish the LOC as a symptom and marker of what I term … Continue reading “Cartographic Irresolution and the Line of Control”
Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race
robin bernsteinProceeding from Robyn Wiegman’s call for a transition from questions of “why” to “how” with regard to formations of race, this article proposes a heuristic, the “scriptive thing,” to analyze ways in which racial subjectivation emerges through everyday physical engagement … Continue reading “Dances with Things: Material Culture and the Performance of Race”