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The inherent violence of queer love (as told with deconstructuralism within queer theory)
(2022-05)[From paper]: The poem “You Are Jeff” by Richard Siken is a non-linear, multi-paragraph, highly metaphorical piece that depicts a deeply unsettling ideal of love in the eyes of the narrator. There is a character, Jeff – ... -
Review Minorities and the Modern Arab World: New Perspectives by Laura Robson
(Canadian Comparative Literature Association, 2017)The Arab World continues to be too often gazed upon as though it were a monolith, despite decades of knowledge production aiming for the subversion of such reductive yet tenacious views. The very phrase “The Arab World,” ... -
Approaches to teaching the works of Naguib Mahfouz
(Indiana University Press, 2015)In this case, the editors of the volume on Mahfouz offer a collection of outlooks that may assist the addition of a Mahfouz work to a survey course, or even the development of an entire seminar on the author, a decidedly ... -
Beyond harem walls: redefining women's space in works by Assia Djebar, Malek Alloula and Fatima Mernissi
(Brill, 2009-01-01)Orientalist and colonial representations of harems have resulted in the association of North African women with domestic confinement. North African authors such as Assia Djebar (1980), Malek Alloula (1981) and Fatima ... -
Frantz Fanon: traveling psychoanalysis and colonial Algeria
(University of Manitoba, 2009-09)Although Frantz Fanon's writings were intimately tied to colonial Algeria, his reflections have found resonance among a wide variety of audiences because of their theoretical and ideological value. Possibly, Fanon's limited ... -
Location of memory: diachronic and synchronic Alibism and Hui identity
(University of Iowa, 2016)Among China's various Muslim groups, the Hui stand out on the basis of their ethnicity, history and location, and are considered unlike the Turkic groups in Western territories. The Hui are not confined to a definite region ... -
Continental drift: the disjunction of north and sub-Saharan Africa
(Indiana University Press, 2011-01)Research and popular imaginative views of Africa in the last few decades have tended to leave out the northern region, even when referring to the continent as a whole. In many academic disciplines, “Africa” and “The Arab ... -
Tintin in the Arab world and Arabic in the world of Tintin
(Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, 2012)"My purpose is not to make gratuitous assumptions about the political intentions of Dar al-Maarif, or reveal any sinister agenda behind (self-)censorship trends among Egyptian publishers. Rather, ... -
Human as double bind: Sylvia Wynter and the genre of “man”
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018)Sylvia Wynter's philosophy of sociogenesis is an implicit response to a double bind instituted by conceiving of humanity in what she calls generic terms. Either one is human and measured by a morphology that privileges an ... -
Human rights and the triumph of the individual in world culture
(Sage Publications, 2007-11-01)Despite ongoing attention to the subject, cultural accounts of the globalization of human rights are surprisingly scarce. Most accounts describe this phenomenon either as a function of evolutionary progress or the ... -
Façade diversity: the individualization of cultural difference
(Sage Publications, 2008-07-01)Diversity and multiculturalism are widely embraced principles, championed by many social movements and promoted through the programs and policies of states, businesses, schools and other organizations throughout the world. ... -
The institutional expansion of human rights, 1863–2003: A comprehensive dataset of international instruments
(Sage Publications, 2011-07-28)This article summarizes the results of a recently completed, comprehensive coding of 779 human rights instruments from 1863 to 2003. As such, it offers an extensive portrayal of how, and to what degree, this powerful ... -
World heritage: constructing a universal cultural order
(Elsevier, 2012-06)Since the late 1970s, the formal designation of world heritage sites has grown exponentially. Today, there are over 900 such designations bestowed upon national treasures from every corner of the globe, which are believed ... -
On the body and the human-ecology distinction
(State University of New York Press, 2018)Reading Fanon yields a critique of a concept that he did not himself explicitly criticize, but which his project in effect renders deeply problematic, “the body.” I therefore question this concept in the present as it ... -
The institutionalization of human rights and its discontents: A world cultural perspective
(Sage Publications, 2014-07-16)A recurring theme in the sociology of human rights is the vast decoupling that exists between the formal codification of these rights in principle and their implementation in practice, fueling much debate about the ... -
Diffusion and decoupling in the world heritage movement: exploring global/local tensions in Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-06-16)A common critique of world society theory is that it overemphasises processes of institutional expansion and isomorphism, and underemphasises instances of decoupling and local variation. We address this concern head-on ... -
Tourism and sustainability in the evaluation of World Heritage sites, 1980-2010
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2016-03-10)At present, there are myriad concerns about tourism and sustainability at cultural and natural world heritage sites. Based on an analysis of 811 evaluations written between 1980 and 2010 by two official advisory bodies to ... -
World heritage and the scientific consecration of ‘outstanding universal value’
(Sage Publications, 2017-04-25)Since World War II, the world heritage movement generated widespread support for preserving various sites of natural and cultural significance deemed to have outstanding universal value (OUV) for humanity. While the ... -
Rationalized authenticity and the transnational spread of intangible cultural heritage
(Elsevier, 2019-08)The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was adopted by UNESCO to enshrine and preserve exemplars of the intangible heritage of humanity – practices, traditions, and cultural expressions ... -
Precarity and elemental difference: on Butler’s re-writing of Irigarayan difference
(Sage, 2017-06-01)It is widely accepted that Judith Butler’s work represents a fundamental departure from that of Luce Irigaray. However, in a 2001 essay, Butler suggests that Irigaray’s work plays a formative role in her own, and that the ...
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