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Translating the Local and the Global: Microfinance in Hyderabad, India
Full text linkThis paper discusses the dicursive methods through which ' the poor' in Hyderabad, have been involved in and introduced to the 'global' financial markets through micro-finance projects. By analyzing the disturbing occurences of deaths surrounding Bharat Financial Inclusion LTD's microfinance loan recipients as well as their advertising tactics, Cilman examines how scales of 'global' and 'local' can be used to create the subject of 'the poor' for the consumption of transnational audiences, and how these abstract projects exert power over ordinary people towards real and dire consequences
History as a Discursive Process; the case of the middle-eastern narrative.
Full text linkPushing back against James Gelvin's linear progression towards modernity that he charts in his history of the middle east, Spencer's use of Michelle Campos' Ottoman Brothers (2015) and Daniel Monterescu's Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine (2010) shows readers alternative representations of history; one that is informed by systems of emergent processes and contingent historical actors. The writer advocates for a history that is sensitive to intracommunal complexities and the agency of historical actors
The Case of Rasmea Odeh: The parallel biopolitics of the US and Israel
Full text linkUsing Foucault and Agamben's theories of the state's project of nation building through the inclusive exclusion of bodies, the author casts the Israel-Palestine conflict in different light. The forcible removal of Palestinians is reexamined and situated in the larger narratives surrounding both the creation of the Israeli state and the nature of US biopolitics
Paris, not France and the Dialogic World of the Celebrity
Full text linkThis paper uses Mikhail Bakhtin’s interventions on performance theory to analyze the 2008 documentary “Paris, not France.” From this framework, the paper argues that the celebrity persona(e) of Paris Hilton is a dialogically constructed entity, informed by internal and external voices
PETA in Havana: Meat, Globalisms, and the Practices and Politics of Consumption
Full text linkThis paper explores PETA's campaign for veganism in Havana, Cuba through Anna Tsing's notions of 'globalisms' (2005). By examining the disjunctures between PETA's homogenizing discourse surrounding meat-eating, and socially situated understandings of what meat means to Cubans in Havana, this paper suggests that that narratives that flatten space and distance often obscure the nuanced process of meaning-making amongst communities. Li looks to alternative methods that situate meaning in practice
Fragmentary Sexuality: the Transnational Gestational Surrogacy Market in Thailand and the Nationalist “Baby Gammy” Scandal
No full textUsing Emily Martin's 1987 ethnographic analysis of female bodies in biomedical settings, this paper investigates the illegal transnational gestational surrogacy market based in Thailand by examining nationalist and gendered rhetoric found on Thai surrogacy clinic websites and in the international media coverage of the "Baby Gammy" scandal of 2014
Selfhood Between Borders: Tibetan Identity in Jangbu’s The Nine-Eyed Agate
No full textThis article explores the construction of Tibetan national identity, and its inherent complexity and nuance, through analysis of the work of poet Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang
New Bodies in the Dolphin Encounter
Full text linkThis article examines the recent media coverage and scientific work on the field of dolphin communication, specifically of the work of Dr. Denise Herzing and the Wild Dolphin Foundation, and analyzes the interaction between humans and dolphins in the biotechnical search for language translation.
Gendered Relations of Power in Ireland’s Same-Sex Marriage Referendum: Panti Bliss and the Lesbians Caught in the “Crossfire”
No full textoai:radiclejournal.org:article/8This article employs Kath Weston’s critiques of performance theory (2002) to analyze the historical Irish gendered relations apparent in the 2015 passing of Ireland’s same-sex marriage referendum
Mr. Dawson Interview
No full textThe following are the analysis and transcript of an interview with a local of Baltimore’s Sharp-Leadenhall neighborhood. The interview was part of a larger project on oral histories from this neighborhood with a focus on change over time, AIDS, and the community’s relationship to police. The interviewee, Mr. Dawson, chose to remain partially anonymous