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Victoria Herche: The Adolescent Nation. Re-Imagining Youth and Coming of Age in Contemporary Australian Film
No full textThe Idea of Justice in Climates of Change
No full textThe Idea of Justice has been percolating for some time. The essays by Amartya Sen and George Anastaplo featured in this special issue derive from addresses presented at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Third Biennial Literature and Law Conference, held in March of 2012 in New York City. The theme of that conference was The Idea of Justice, and it was dedicated to Sen’s 2008 book of that title. Sen graciously agreed to deliver the keynote. The conference organizer, Andrew Majeske, who is also an editor of this journal, asked the late George Anastaplo to be the respondent. What ensued was a lively debate over the scope and meaning of justice, with Anastaplo taking a more local and conservative approach and Sen a more global one. Their contrasting views generated numerous provocative yet amiable exchanges. The collegiality had something to do with the academic context, but it may have also reflected the timing: the conference took place prior to most of the polarizing changes that have shaken the world over the past decade
“Wrong the Day it was Decided”
No full textOn January 5, 2022, I interviewed Dr. Karen Korematsu about her educational advocacy work for The Fred T. Korematsu Institute (KI) in San Francisco which is dedicated to the memory of her father, Fred T. Korematsu. The Institute primarily focuses on raising awareness in K-12 schools about the unconstitutional incarceration of Japanese Americans by the United States during World War II, and Fred Korematsu’s own experience of incarceration and the legal battles he fought to challenge it. The Institute also highlights how this relates to issues in Asian American history and current civil rights challenges. Dr. Korematsu is the founder and executive director of the Institute
A Region in Crisis?
No full textUS plans to end the COVID-era order blocking asylum seekers at the Mexico border have refueled discussions about the causes and effects of Title 42, which when it was invoked by the Trump administration on March 20, 2020, suspended the fundamental right to seek protection and asylum for people who arrived at the US border with Mexico. The execution of Title 42 and increased border policing in the recent past led to millions of migrant expulsions and unimaginable suffering of those awaiting processing, not to mention the separation of hundreds of children from their parents, many of whom have still not been reunited. In addition, tighter border control has grave consequences for Indigenous communities whose territories predate the settler colonial political border between the United States and Mexico, which was drawn irrespective of Indigenous land claims. The border region seems to be in crisis indeed. However, looking at the violent past of the southern border, we might consider it as “just” part of an ever recurring, albeit no less disturbing, familiar pattern of racialized white supremacist border politics. This interview was conducted to explore this ongoing state of emergency and to understand its underlying cultural politics
Warfare, National Identity, and Counterinsurgency Tactics in the Public Imagination
No full textFor our special issue of the New American Studies Journal “American Crises” I had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Barbara Elias, Associate Professor at the department of Government and Legal Studies at Bowdoin College, Maine, who specializes in international relations, U.S. foreign policy, national security, and political Islam
Review of Greta Olson’s From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect Followed By a Question and Answer Exchange with Greta Olson
No full textThe first section contains a review of Greta Olson's From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect, and the second section is a question and answer exchange with the author
Beckett to Breivik
No full textMatthew Feldman, fittingly for someone who works on the unique, the difficult and the uniquely difficult, has had an unusual career. After completing a PhD on Samuel Beckett’s psychological and philosophical sources, he has held roles as a lecturer, reader and professor in modern history at Oxford Brookes, Northampton and Teesside. He remains Emeritus Professor in the History of Ideas, as well as being a Professorial Fellow at the University of York. Feldman was the founder and director of the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). He has published extensively on history, literature and fascism. His monographs include Beckett’s Books: A Cultural History of the Interwar Notes (2006), Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945 (2013), and two recent collection of essays, Falsifying Beckett (2015) and Politics, Intellectuals and Faith (2020), as well as numerous articles and edited collections. His third essay collection is due out next year, and his much-anticipated history of fascism will be published by Yale University Press in 2024
Letter of Miriam Redleaf (Nee Anastaplo) about Her Father, George Anastaplo
No full textA letter concerning George Anastaplo written by one of his daughters
Racial Capitalism and Black Affect in Walter Rodney’s “The Groundings with My Brothers”
No full textAspects of Black racialization have been sorely neglected in affect scholarship. This essay proposes a reading of Walter Rodney’s classic Black liberation text “The Groundings with My Brothers” in light of its generally unnoticed affectivity. Rodney’s practice of ‘grounding’ invites a reading in terms of affective relations between bodies. The compassionate stance and breakdown of class and racial hierarchies implicit in grounding suggest a new relational mode of being disruptive to the functioning of racial capitalism, which is contingent on the erection of empathy barriers to prevent the free flow of affective energies between its subjects. The textual body of “Groundings,” too, comes under investigation, as I locate ‘impressions’ of its author’s various bodily encounters in the rhetorical fabric. While its impressibility runs against masculinized rules of feeling, Rodney’s text still taps into exclusionary patriarchy. In the last section, I show how subsequent response essays ‘ground’ with Rodney, bringing the practice of grounding into intersectional and transnational territory and closer to its promise of bodily relations built on solidarity