Letter from the Editor: Locating “Sites of Home”
In an era of instantaneous communication and mass movements of people, the location and claiming of “home”—as a political and spatial idea, as well as an affective one—is an increasingly[...]
“Sites of Home” (June 2014)
Throughout this issue, our authors seek to engage and place in conversation ways of seeing and claiming space across contested localities and national imaginaries, challenging along the way the means by which we make, unmake, and re-imagine a (de)colonial “home.”
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Ivy League Foundational Narratives and Academic Disciplinary Hierarchies
[H]e was considered the foremost of authorities on the Mexicans of Texas. Hank Harvey had been born in New York City some sixty years before. He had gone to grade[...]
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Mapping the Image of the Jew in Postmodern Arabic Fiction
“We aforetime grant to the children of Israel the Book (Torah) the power of command, and prophet-hood, We gave them for sustenance, things good and pure, and we favored them[...]
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Rediscovering lo cubano Through Capoeira in Cuba
When members of the Cuban capoeira group Caiman Capoeira were asked what the world should know about their group, almost unanimously they responded, “Let the world know that in Cuba[...]
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Intersectionality and Indigenous Feminism: An Aboriginal Woman’s Perspective
It is difficult to pinpoint a time when I began to associate race politics with gender politics personally, but I do know that it was quite early on in my[...]
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Las fallidas transformaciones al interior del movimiento LGBT en el Perú: una interpretación crítica desde la perspectiva interseccional
El Contexto El haber sido miembro del Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (Mhol), una de las organizaciones gay/lésbica más antigua de Sudamérica[1] debería producir orgullo y satisfacción, pero ¿qué ocurre cuando[...]
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Le voyage en tant que dessinateur d’une nouvelle cartographie de la chercheuse.
Le rêve de Bali et le rôle des artistes voyageurs Confrontés au questionnement sur leur expérience à Bali, une des îles les plus connues de l’archipel indonésien, plusieurs artistes brésiliens[...]
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Laberintos de memorias: Una conversación con Francisco Zamora Loboch
Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], o “Paco” para los que lo conocen, es uno de los escritores más conocidos de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nacido en 1948 en la isla guineana de Annobón, su[...]
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“To Hell with that Man Business!”: Gender Anxieties in The Salt Mines and The Transformation
Introduction Panning through the dismal space of out-of-service garbage trucks against a dreary city skyline, the opening scene of The Salt Mines (1990) introduces us to Sara, a self-identified Latina[...]
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Book Review: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair (Michael Deibert, 2013)
Michael Deibert’s The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair is a 260-page well-researched book compiling Congo’s struggles dating back to the 15th century (the moment when the Congolese[...]
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Peter Clarke: Meditations on Space, Place and Movement
The artist Peter Clarke was one of the first people I met on my arrival to Cape Town. As I remember it now, the impact of the quiet, careful elder[...]
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False Ideas About ‘Activism’ in Egypt and the Case of Egypt’s Copts: Outside the State and Within the Economy of Power
‘Activism’[1] and the ‘human rights agenda’ as espoused by international and local organizations have created several norms about ‘advocacy’ and the ‘universality’ of ‘religious freedom’ in Egypt. Yet these concepts[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Featured · Magazine
Vistas: A Visual Project by Raél Jero Salley & Photographs by Jared Thorne
Note: This creative submission is a sister piece to the critical article, Antinomies of Neighborliness. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. ***** “To my compatriots, I have[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Creative · Magazine
Antinomies of neighborliness, or anti-blackness as a reactionary persistence
Note: This article is a sister piece to the creative submission, Vistas. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. Writing in 1961, on the eve of both[...]
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L’actualité du patrimoine: Les formes d’extensivité historique et géographique de l’identité moderne
« Notre activité suppose toujours l’intelligence d’autres personnes ; une bonne partie du bonheur humain consiste à ressentir des états d’âme étrangers. Le sens historique permet alors à l’homme moderne[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts
Ibn Fadlan: Crossing Over and the Nature of the Boundary
“I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I[...]
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Track-Two Diplomacy between India and Pakistan: A Study in Diplomatic Overture
There has been a fundamental change in the way interstate relations are being conducted in modern times. The nature and working of diplomacy between and among states has undergone some[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Creative · Global Perspectives
The Centipedes: Liminal Narratives Traveling through Others’ Bodies
The ‘reflexive turn’ in anthropology, marked by the publication of Writing Culture (Clifford and Marcus) in 1986, raised fundamental issues of representation, epistemological authority, and Eurocentric colonialism in anthropological texts.[...]
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Review of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s “Le Président”
“When will it end? 1982-201?” The open-ended question – with the last digit intentionally left out – fills the final screen of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s most recent film, Le Président (2013). The question[...]
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Narrativas de Deslocamento na Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea
Notas introdutórias O conceito de viagem, de acordo com Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (1996), se transformou em uma referência a movimentos populacionais, bem como em[...]
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Cartography of Mass City-zenry in Global Netscapes in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Short Stories ‘Los desaarraigados’ [‘The Uprooted’] and ‘La grieta’ [‘The Crevice’].
While traditional storytelling was based on oral renderings as imagined by a narrator, now the trends are often based on the visual readings of events as imagined by the availability[...]
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Souffrance ou héroïsme ? : Le sentiment des colons chinois dans la littérature chinoise au Tibet
En analysant des œuvres littéraires coloniales, Elleke Boehmer indique qu’au début du XIXe siècle, l’impérialisme britannique s’est identifié à Robinson Crusoë sur l’île sauvage qu’il s’efforçait de civiliser. Correspondant à[...]
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Labyrinths of memories: A conversation with Francisco Zamora Loboch
Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], or simply “Paco” to those who know him, is one of Equatorial Guinea’s best-known writers. Born in 1948 on the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobon, his life[...]
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The Spectacle of Indian Elections and the West
Editor’s note: Given the timeliness of the content, this Academic Dispatch is an advance release of Issue II, Volume I, which will be released in full in the coming weeks. ****** The[...]
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