This essay examines a series of visual representations of illegalized migration in order to consider how they respond to the presence of labor within global systems of economic exchange. Through an examination of the aesthetic qualities of these images it … Continue reading “The Worker as Revenant: Imagining Embodied Labor in Contemporary Visualizations of Migration”
Issue: Issue 111 Summer 2012
The Soul of Security: Christianity, Corporatism, and Control in Postwar Guatemala
Kevin Lewis O'NeillAmid unprecedented rates of deportation as well as an ever-growing gang problem, bilingual call centers have become viable spaces of control in postwar Guatemala. They provide deported ex–gang members with not only well-paying jobs but also a work environment structured … Continue reading “The Soul of Security: Christianity, Corporatism, and Control in Postwar Guatemala”
Dogma-Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race
leerom medovoiThis article works backward from the targeting of Muslims in the war on terror to argue that religion and race have a historical relationship more intimate than typically thought. In particular, it argues that religion is not merely one more … Continue reading “Dogma-Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race”
Sharing Time: C. L. R. James and Southern Agrarian Movements
Christopher TaylorChristopher Taylor considers C. L. R. James’s sojourn in the United States from the perspective of a series of articles that James wrote while assisting Missourian sharecroppers striking in 1941. While James’s work has been foundational to postnational Americanist scholarship, … Continue reading “Sharing Time: C. L. R. James and Southern Agrarian Movements”
Real (Software) Abstractions: On the Rise of Facebook and the Fall of MySpace
Robert W. GehlThis paper argues that the failure of MySpace and the rise of Facebook in the social networking site market is due in part to the degrees in which either site associates users, technology, and marketers into a successful “real software … Continue reading “Real (Software) Abstractions: On the Rise of Facebook and the Fall of MySpace”
Birangonas (War Heroines), Rehabilitation Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh [photograph]
gayatri chakravorty spivakReproductive Heteronormativity and Sexual Violence in the Bangladesh War of 1971: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Nayanika MookherjeeIn 1971, the formation of Bangladesh coincided with the death of a large number of civilians and the rape of many women. In stark contrast to the assumption of complete silence relating to war-time rape, the independent Bangladeshi government publicly … Continue reading “Reproductive Heteronormativity and Sexual Violence in the Bangladesh War of 1971: A Discussion with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak”