Journal ArticleDialogues in Human Geography · March 1, 2023
Infrastructure has been an object of political action in its form as public good. Kai Bosworth's article, ‘What is “affective infrastructure,”’ views political action as a result of infrastructure, that is, the kind of social infrastructure that fosters th ...
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OtherSomatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology (online) · 2019
Invited remarks on Saida Hodžić, The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs. ...
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Journal ArticleSigns · December 1, 2016
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This essay brings together two different rubrics that are animating recent strands of critical analysis: intimacy and infrastructure. Its point is as simple as calling attention to a telephone wire—or these days, to a cell phone tower: that infrastructures ...
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Journal ArticleFeminist Legal Studies · April 1, 2010
This essay investigates the political economy of sexuality through an interpretation of sex shows for foreigners in Bangkok, Thailand. Reading these performances as both symptoms of, and analytical commentaries on, Western consumer desire, the essay sugges ...
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Journal ArticleLUXEMBURG — Gesellschaftsanalyse und linke Praxis · 2010
Analysis of how the subject of sexuality was treated at the World Social Forum, across left and feminist discussions. ...
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Chapter · February 15, 2009
Written and edited by many of the world’s foremost scholars of transnational history, this Dictionary challenges readers to look at the contemporary world in a new light. ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research · September 15, 2008
Vernacular shrines pervade the markets of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and a globalized city in Southeast Asia. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, this article traces the history of cross-border flows and shifting political economic ...
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Chapter · 2008
This encyclopedia captures the experiences of women throughout world history and illuminates how they have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. ...
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Chapter · November 15, 2007
How do our everyday actions shape and transform the world economy? This volume of original essays argues that current scholarship in international political economy (IPE) is too highly focused on powerful states and large international institutions. The co ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of International Women's Studies · April 2007
Despite clear affinities, the integration of feminism into the World Social Forum remains uneven, in ways reminiscent of well-known histories of women's movements with various lefts. This essay draws on observations of the 2005 WSF at Porto Alegre, Brazil ...
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Journal ArticleConference Archives of the Sexualities, Genders & Rights in Asia 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies · 2005Link to itemCite
Book · July 19, 2004
Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures ...
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Chapter · 2002
Among the signal developments of the last third of the twentieth century has been the emergence of a new politics of human rights. The transnational circulation of norms, networks, and representations has advanced human rights claims in ways that have resh ...
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Chapter · 2000
In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to ... ...
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