This inquiry concerns the majoritarian right governing Sri Lanka instantiated through state counterinsurgency, extrajudicial violence, and symbiotic ideologies of postwar “reconciliation” and political disaffection. Majoritarian right is a predicative apparatus instating both a politics of measure and a politics … Continue reading “No Longer a “Whore,” Not Yet a “Terrorist,” Never a Citizen: Majoritarian Right and the Rabble”
Issue: Issue 117 Winter 2013
Queer Space in the Ruins of Dictatorship Architecture
Bobby BenedictoThis article examines the role played by “third world” queer place-making practices in the reproduction of postcolonial dreams of urban and global modernity. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in Manila, the Philippines, the article investigates the transformation of the … Continue reading “Queer Space in the Ruins of Dictatorship Architecture”
Television Tricksters: Parody and Contradiction in Ghanaian Melodrama
Jesse Weaver ShipleyTelevision melodramas around the world provide extended stories in which characters publicly draw out their inner emotional selves for all to experience in lurid, detailed portrayals of desire and struggle; characters’ moral choices show—and in the process produce—the landscape … Continue reading “Television Tricksters: Parody and Contradiction in Ghanaian Melodrama”
The Israel/Palestine Field School: Decoloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
Alex LubinIn May 2011, the Anthropology Department and the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico offered a class entitled “Technologies of Settler-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine.” This field school was designed as a decolonizing project for American students … Continue reading “The Israel/Palestine Field School: Decoloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge”