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Introduction: Changing the subject of Indian feminism -- Indian feminism in the new millennium : co-option, entanglement, intersection -- Queer activism as governmentality : regulating lesbians, making queer -- Queer self-fashioning : in, out, and beyond the closet -- Feminist governmentality : entangled histories and empowered women -- Subaltern self-government : precarious transformations -- Conclusion: On critique and care.

"The United States has become increasingly polarized in recent years, although the concept of a two-party system is nothing new. This book traces the major parties' utter dominance-within the highest elected positions all the way down to "nonpartisan" political offices across the US-from the founding of the Constitution through the 2020 presidential election. Even before the founding of the "modern" Republican Party in 1854 and the next 168-year era of Democratic-GOP dominance, the early decades of American nationhood were ruled in a similar manner by two major parties of the day. This text is a comprehensive, fast-paced analysis of how the two-party system has grown to be such an affront to the ideals of the Founding Fathers and to the numerous Americans of today who appear to accept it as a fact of life"--

Facing Eugenics is a social history of sexual sterilization operations in twentieth-century Canada. Looking at real-life experiences of men and women who, either coercively or voluntarily, participated in the largest legal eugenics program in Canada, it considers the impact of successive legal policies and medical practices on shaping our understanding of contemporary reproductive rights. The book also provides deep insights into the broader implications of medical experimentation, institutionalization, and health care in North America.Erika Dyck uses a range of historical evidence, including medical files, court testimony, and personal records to place mental health and intelligence at the centre of discussions regarding reproductive fitness. Examining acts of resistance alongside heavy-handed decisions to sterilize people considered "unfit," Facing Eugenics illuminates how reproductive rights fit into a broader discussion of what constitutes civil liberties, modern feminism, and contemporary psychiatric survivor and disability activism

"Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious locale. These powerful, if competing, visions seek to make sense of Afghanistan and to render it legible. In this innovate examination, Nivi Manchanda uncovers and critically explores Anglophone practices of knowledge cultivation and representational strategies and argues that Afghanistan occupies a distinctive place in the imperial imagination: over-determined and under-theorised, owing largely to the particular history of imperial intervention in the region. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda re-historicises and de-mythologises the study of Afghanistan through a sustained critique of colonial forms of knowing and demonstrates how the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled Western intervention, invasion and bombing in the region from the nineteenth century to the present."

Provides a cultural history and political critique of Scottish devolutionProvides the first critical history of Scottish devolutionOffers the first multidisciplinary study of (UK or Scottish) devolution: engaging extensively with the work of historians, sociologists, political scientists and cultural theoristsCombines close attention to political and electoral factors with cultural issues and developments Draws on political theory which illuminates devolution from outside its terms This book is about the role of writers and intellectuals in shaping constitutional change. Considering an unprecedented range of literary, political and archival materials, it explores how questions of 'voice', language and identity featured in debates leading to the new Scottish Parliament in 1999. Tracing both the 'dream' of cultural empowerment and the 'grind' of electoral strategy, it reconstructs the influence of magazines such as Scottish International, Radical Scotland, Cencrastus and Edinburgh Review, and sets the fiction of William McIlvanney, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, A. L. Kennedy and James Robertson within a radically altered picture of devolved Scotland

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: From Symptomatology to Schizoanalysis -- 1 A Case of Thought -- 2 The Paradox of the Body and the Genesis of Form and Content -- 3 Symptoms, Repetition and the Productive Death Instinct -- 4 The Identity of the Critical and the Clinical -- 5 The People to Come -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Introduction: Voicing the past -- He emergence of a new field -- The great cultural war : the social and connected critics -- Jabiri as a thinker of (internal) decolonization -- Restating turath in the postcolonial age -- The making of a social critic : Jūrj Tarabishi -- A crack in the edifice of the social critic : from Thawrah to Nahḍa

We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi's urban fray in the 1950s. As these villages transform physically; their residents, an agrarian-pastoralist community - the Jats - also transform into dabblers in real estate. A study of two villages - Munirka and Shahpur Jat - both in the heart of bustling urban economies of Delhi, reveal that it is 'rent' that could define this suburbanisation. 'Bhaichara', once a form of land ownership in colonial times, transforms into an affective claim of belonging, and managing urban property in the face of a steady onslaught from the 'city'. Properties of Rent is a study of how vernacular form of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi.

"Provides a synthesis of critical Whiteness studies to date and uses a wide-ranging collection of cultural objects-memes, oration, music, advertisement, and news coverage-to show how the scripts of White deflection sustain and reproduce structures of inequality and injustice"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Mapping Multiple Chinas on the Development Landscape -- Part I. WHO OR WHAT IS CHINA IN CENTRAL AMERICA? -- 1. Transpacific Assemblages: Tracing Development Encounters over Space and Time -- 2. Chinese Diasporic Communities: Migration and the Making of Central American Modernity -- 3. Taiwan: Diplomatic, Economic, and Cultural Associations with the "Other China" -- Part II. MATERIALIZING TRANSPACIFIC DEVELOPMENT -- 4. Infrastructure: Laying the Groundwork for Sovereignty and National Identity -- 5. Trade: Brokering Economic Exchange across Markets and Cultures -- 6. Corruption: Hunting Tigers and Chopping Chorizo across the Pacific -- Conclusion: Locating Development Futures -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

"In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to the "aboriginal rights" acknowledged in Section 35(1). Yet in the wake of the Constitution's passage, Aboriginal, in its capitalized form, became far more closely aligned with Section 35(2)'s interpretation of which specific groups held those rights, and was increasingly used to describe and categorize people. More than simple legal and political vernacular, the term Aboriginal (capitalized or not) has had real-world consequences for the people it defined. Aboriginal™ argues the term was a tool used to advance Canada's cultural and economic assimilatory agenda throughout the 1980s until the mid-2010s. Moreover, Adese illuminates how the word engenders a kind of "Aboriginalized multicultural" brand easily reduced to and exported as a nation brand, economic brand, and place brand--at odds with the diversity and complexity of Indigenous peoples and communities. In her multi-disciplinary research, Adese examines the discursive spaces and concrete sites where Aboriginality features prominently: the Constitution Act, 1982; the 2010 Vancouver Olympics; the "Aboriginal tourism industry"; and the Vancouver International Airport. Reflecting on the term's abrupt exit from public discourse and the recent turn toward Indigenous, Indigeneity, and Indigenization, Aboriginal™ offers insight into Indigenous-Canada relations, reconciliation efforts, and current discussions of Indigenous identity, authenticity, and agency."--

"In Aboriginal™, Jennifer Adese explores the origins, meaning, and usage of the term "Aboriginal" and its displacement by the word "Indigenous." In the Constitution Act, 1982, the term's express purpose was to speak to the "aboriginal rights" acknowledged in Section 35(1). Yet in the wake of the Constitution's passage, Aboriginal, in its capitalized form, became far more closely aligned with Section 35(2)'s interpretation of which specific groups held those rights, and was increasingly used to describe and categorize people. More than simple legal and political vernacular, the term Aboriginal (capitalized or not) has had real-world consequences for the people it defined. Aboriginal™ argues the term was a tool used to advance Canada's cultural and economic assimilatory agenda throughout the 1980s until the mid-2010s. Moreover, Adese illuminates how the word engenders a kind of "Aboriginalized multicultural" brand easily reduced to and exported as a nation brand, economic brand, and place brand--at odds with the diversity and complexity of Indigenous peoples and communities. In her multi-disciplinary research, Adese examines the discursive spaces and concrete sites where Aboriginality features prominently: the Constitution Act, 1982; the 2010 Vancouver Olympics; the "Aboriginal tourism industry"; and the Vancouver International Airport. Reflecting on the term's abrupt exit from public discourse and the recent turn toward Indigenous, Indigeneity, and Indigenization, Aboriginal™ offers insight into Indigenous-Canada relations, reconciliation efforts, and current discussions of Indigenous identity, authenticity, and agency."--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. Race, Censuses, and Citizenship -- 2. "The Tables present plain matters of fact": Race Categories in U.S. Censuses -- 3. With "time ... , they will be white": Brazilian Censuses and National Identity -- 4. Identities in Search of Bodies: Popular Campaigns Around Censuses -- 5. Counting by Race: More than Numbers -- Appendix: Race Categories and Instructions to Census Enumerators of U.S. Population Censuses, 1850-1960 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index