The New Silk Road and Logistical Geopolitics
societyandspaceadmin
No longer characterized as the armies of rival forces, the main opponents of the development of territorial domination and extraction of resources are at the same time abstract and in the [...]
DEREGULATING DESIRE BY RYAN PATRICK MURPHY, REVIEW FORUM
David K. Seitz
The recipient of the Organization of American Historians' 2017 David Montgomery Award for the best book on a topic in U.S. labor and working-class history, Deregulating Desire [...]
Waiting in Drum Village, China
Vickie Zhang
Waiting has become a characteristic condition of contemporary inequality. And yet, waiting does not mean that life stops flowing in Drum Village. As the glue of quotidian encounters, living [...]
RIGHTLESSNESS: TESTIMONY AND REDRESS IN U.S. PRISON CAMPS SINCE WORLD WAR II BY A. NAOMI PAIK
Richard Nisa
At times in Paik’s text, the contours of rightlessness manifest as the racialized production of statelessness. At others, they emerge through specific tactics of epidemiological management. [...]
ENDANGERED CITY BY AUSTIN ZEIDERMAN AND HYDRAULIC CITY BY NIKHIL ANAND, REVIEW FORUM
Asher Ghertner
This review forum stems from an author-meets-critics session on Austin Zeiderman’s Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá and Nikhil Anand’s Hydraulic City: [...]
A hostile environment
Out of the Woods
The persistence of Trumpist policies; and the authorization of widespread nationalism and violence requires not a doubling down on the liberal, multicultural nation, but instead an abolition [...]
Intro – Beyond binaries and boundaries in ‘social reproduction’
Max Andrucki, Caitlin Henry, Will McKeithen, and Sarah Stinard-Kiel
A series of multivalent forces unleashed by successive rounds of capital accumulation are reconfiguring life at its most fundamental level—migration, state restructuring, climate change, [...]
A Whale Music Playlist by Max Ritts
Max Ritts
Whale music was celebrated at a time when “the environment” had suddenly entered the collective consciousness of millions of white middle-class North Americans. It represented an unlikely [...]
Everyday Anti-Racism on Campus
Deborah Cowen
Racism not only surfaces within, but sculpts the experience of everyday life in the University. Racism works by keeping many things out: particular bodies from lecture halls, but also [...]
“We are citizens!”: Puerto Rico and the Caribbean from Hurricane Katrina to Maria
Marion Werner
As forced migrants of the economic crisis over the last decade, Puerto Ricans are treated as aliens on the mainland and thus the refugee label, while untrue in a juridical sense, describes [...]
Investigating Infrastructures, a forum
Deborah Cowen
In the sample of work below, you will find creative engagement with infrastructure in its seemingly banal and innocuous forms, like the jersey barrier, or the airport washroom. Some authors [...]