... The same fantasy is promoted by concentration camp video games: "The player must man... more ... The same fantasy is promoted by concentration camp video games: "The player must manage the camp, selling gold fillings, lampshades and labor to earn enough money to buy gas and add gas chambers to kill Turks" (New York Times 1991:A 10; Freudenreich 1989:13). ...
In pursuit of a critical geography of globality, my essay examines how racial hegemonies are sust... more In pursuit of a critical geography of globality, my essay examines how racial hegemonies are sustained and perpetuated by the ways in which urban spaces inhabited by peoples on the margins of the world economy are imagined, represented, and brought to public visibility. Central to my inquiry is how iconic representations of "slum life" are produced for a white consumer public. Propelled by fantasies of racial essence, primal bodies, and exotic naturalism, the iconicities of "shantytowns" and the "black ghetto" are circulated as popular commodity forms throughout Europe's metropolitan centers. In analyzing this process, I identify "africanism" (spaces of contested black civility, premodern savagery, urban jungle) and "tropicalism" (naturalized landscapes of color and houses, childlike creativity, and happy workers) as representational codes for how "slums" as sites of urban dispossession are racially mapped and consumed.
This essay explores how iconic representations of slum life are produced for transnational consum... more This essay explores how iconic representations of slum life are produced for transnational consumption in Europe. The focus is on the manner in which the logics of spectacle and entertainment have come to organize images of urban poverty. The use of slums as global entertainment spectacle requires that core images be detached from social life to produce a repertoire of
Page 1. Murderous Fantasies: Violence, Memory, and Selfhood in Germany* Uli Linke Introduction Th... more Page 1. Murderous Fantasies: Violence, Memory, and Selfhood in Germany* Uli Linke Introduction The nature of the link between discourse and power has long been a matter of intense interest to social theorists. Despite different ...
... Theweleit (1989) believes that this desire gave rise to a fascist body politic that tried to ... more ... Theweleit (1989) believes that this desire gave rise to a fascist body politic that tried to elude and repel feminization. The hardened male body with its stiff mili-tary pose became the armor men used to protect their inner selves. ...
When attempting to understand the cultural politics of gender in Europe after 1945, some readers ... more When attempting to understand the cultural politics of gender in Europe after 1945, some readers will undoubtedly anticipate answers to the following question: To what extent have the impact of the Cold War, the rise of feminism, the supposedly sexually liberated 1960s, the emergence of ‘post-feminism’, and the putative ‘crisis of masculinity’ changed attitudes towards gender and sexuality, and impacted on gender-related legislation? This article examines the cultural politics of gender at the juncture of globalisation, securitisation, and Europeanisation, and explores how Europeans have ‘fashioned their distinction’ in attempts to reconstitute themselves as global citizens in a multi-ethnic, post-imperial Europe. By focusing on the commoditisation of white femaleness, the coercive normalisation of Muslim masculinity, the ‘liberation’ of the veiled Muslim woman, and the eroticisation of black men in white consumer fantasy, the article's analysis of exemplary cases demonstrates how gendered imaginaries in Europe are forged by a complex dialogue with race, nation, capitalism, sex, and security.
... cadavers. German exhibit reviews insist that the displays are stocked with genuine human spec... more ... cadavers. German exhibit reviews insist that the displays are stocked with genuine human specimens, actual corpses (Nissen 1998: 36), whose naked reality (Vorpahl 1997: 8) and authenticity is fascinating (Becker 1999: 15). ...
Acknowledgments 1. Fear: a conceptual framework - Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith Part One: Cu... more Acknowledgments 1. Fear: a conceptual framework - Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith Part One: Cultures of Fear 2. The New War against Terror - Noam Chomsky (MIT) 3. Engineering Ruins and Affect - Joseph Masco (University of Chicago) 4. Terrorism and the Politics of Fear - David L. Altheide (Arizona State University) 5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real - Slavoj Zizek (University of Ljubljana) Part Two: States of Terror 6. Human Rights and Complex Emergencies - Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur (Pacific School of Religion & Centers for Disease Control) 7. Speechless Emissaries - Liisa H. Malkki (Stanford University) 8. Trauma and Vulnerability During War - Doug Henry (University of North Texas) 9. The Violence of Humanitarianism - Miriam Ticktin (New School for Social Research) Part Three: Zones of Violence 10. Gender, Terrorism, and War - Susan J. Brison (Dartmouth College) 11. The Continuum of Violence - Cynthia Cockburn (City University London) 12. Child Soldiers - Julia Dickson-Gomez (Medical College of Wisconsin) 13. Girls Behind the (Front) Lines - Carolyn Nordstrom (Notre Dame) 14. On the Run - Solrun Williksen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Part Four: Intimacies of Suffering 15. War and Sexual Violence - Elisabeth Jean Wood (Yale University) 16. Militarizing Women's Lives - Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) 17. The Political Economy of Rape - Meredeth Turshen (Rutgers University) 18. On the Torture of Others - Susan Sontag Part Five: Normalizing Terror 19. Cultural Appropriations of Suffering - Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman (Harvard University) 20. The Biopolitics of Disposability - Henry A. Giroux (MacMaster University) 21. Empire of Camps - Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University) Index
In late modernity, where the making of social worlds is governed by new media technologies, flexi... more In late modernity, where the making of social worlds is governed by new media technologies, flexible systems of exchange, and an unprecedented traffic in money, markets, and people across sovereign borders, the problematic concept of the nation has been recuperated to fasten subjects to political space. In this context, the projected frontiers of the nation are increasingly mapped out through the medium of language, thereby producing new mechanisms for membership and exclusion. With a focus on German cultural politics, I examine how regimes of nationality and imaginaries of citizenship are forged by a racialization of language. Under the impact of global capitalism and European unification, ethnolinguistic racism emerges as a discursive medium for reconstituting subjectivities and sovereignties.
The rapid emergence of global memory archives presents a novel challenge for anthropological rese... more The rapid emergence of global memory archives presents a novel challenge for anthropological research. Media industries, commodity capitalism, and digital technologies have altered the practices and possibilities of collective remembering. Competing representations of the past are forged, deposited, and exchanged in virtual space. How do anthropologists investigate these modalities of social remembering and forgetting when the machinations of past experience and the formations of historical consciousness are increasingly uncoupled from local memory communities? Through a critical engagement with anthropological concepts, research agendas, and debates about the multiple linkages between remembrance, past experience, and history, this article attempts to uncover the impact of globalization on collective memory practices.
... The same fantasy is promoted by concentration camp video games: "The player must man... more ... The same fantasy is promoted by concentration camp video games: "The player must manage the camp, selling gold fillings, lampshades and labor to earn enough money to buy gas and add gas chambers to kill Turks" (New York Times 1991:A 10; Freudenreich 1989:13). ...
In pursuit of a critical geography of globality, my essay examines how racial hegemonies are sust... more In pursuit of a critical geography of globality, my essay examines how racial hegemonies are sustained and perpetuated by the ways in which urban spaces inhabited by peoples on the margins of the world economy are imagined, represented, and brought to public visibility. Central to my inquiry is how iconic representations of "slum life" are produced for a white consumer public. Propelled by fantasies of racial essence, primal bodies, and exotic naturalism, the iconicities of "shantytowns" and the "black ghetto" are circulated as popular commodity forms throughout Europe's metropolitan centers. In analyzing this process, I identify "africanism" (spaces of contested black civility, premodern savagery, urban jungle) and "tropicalism" (naturalized landscapes of color and houses, childlike creativity, and happy workers) as representational codes for how "slums" as sites of urban dispossession are racially mapped and consumed.
This essay explores how iconic representations of slum life are produced for transnational consum... more This essay explores how iconic representations of slum life are produced for transnational consumption in Europe. The focus is on the manner in which the logics of spectacle and entertainment have come to organize images of urban poverty. The use of slums as global entertainment spectacle requires that core images be detached from social life to produce a repertoire of
Page 1. Murderous Fantasies: Violence, Memory, and Selfhood in Germany* Uli Linke Introduction Th... more Page 1. Murderous Fantasies: Violence, Memory, and Selfhood in Germany* Uli Linke Introduction The nature of the link between discourse and power has long been a matter of intense interest to social theorists. Despite different ...
... Theweleit (1989) believes that this desire gave rise to a fascist body politic that tried to ... more ... Theweleit (1989) believes that this desire gave rise to a fascist body politic that tried to elude and repel feminization. The hardened male body with its stiff mili-tary pose became the armor men used to protect their inner selves. ...
When attempting to understand the cultural politics of gender in Europe after 1945, some readers ... more When attempting to understand the cultural politics of gender in Europe after 1945, some readers will undoubtedly anticipate answers to the following question: To what extent have the impact of the Cold War, the rise of feminism, the supposedly sexually liberated 1960s, the emergence of ‘post-feminism’, and the putative ‘crisis of masculinity’ changed attitudes towards gender and sexuality, and impacted on gender-related legislation? This article examines the cultural politics of gender at the juncture of globalisation, securitisation, and Europeanisation, and explores how Europeans have ‘fashioned their distinction’ in attempts to reconstitute themselves as global citizens in a multi-ethnic, post-imperial Europe. By focusing on the commoditisation of white femaleness, the coercive normalisation of Muslim masculinity, the ‘liberation’ of the veiled Muslim woman, and the eroticisation of black men in white consumer fantasy, the article's analysis of exemplary cases demonstrates how gendered imaginaries in Europe are forged by a complex dialogue with race, nation, capitalism, sex, and security.
... cadavers. German exhibit reviews insist that the displays are stocked with genuine human spec... more ... cadavers. German exhibit reviews insist that the displays are stocked with genuine human specimens, actual corpses (Nissen 1998: 36), whose naked reality (Vorpahl 1997: 8) and authenticity is fascinating (Becker 1999: 15). ...
Acknowledgments 1. Fear: a conceptual framework - Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith Part One: Cu... more Acknowledgments 1. Fear: a conceptual framework - Uli Linke and Danielle Taana Smith Part One: Cultures of Fear 2. The New War against Terror - Noam Chomsky (MIT) 3. Engineering Ruins and Affect - Joseph Masco (University of Chicago) 4. Terrorism and the Politics of Fear - David L. Altheide (Arizona State University) 5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real - Slavoj Zizek (University of Ljubljana) Part Two: States of Terror 6. Human Rights and Complex Emergencies - Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur (Pacific School of Religion & Centers for Disease Control) 7. Speechless Emissaries - Liisa H. Malkki (Stanford University) 8. Trauma and Vulnerability During War - Doug Henry (University of North Texas) 9. The Violence of Humanitarianism - Miriam Ticktin (New School for Social Research) Part Three: Zones of Violence 10. Gender, Terrorism, and War - Susan J. Brison (Dartmouth College) 11. The Continuum of Violence - Cynthia Cockburn (City University London) 12. Child Soldiers - Julia Dickson-Gomez (Medical College of Wisconsin) 13. Girls Behind the (Front) Lines - Carolyn Nordstrom (Notre Dame) 14. On the Run - Solrun Williksen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Part Four: Intimacies of Suffering 15. War and Sexual Violence - Elisabeth Jean Wood (Yale University) 16. Militarizing Women's Lives - Cynthia Enloe (Clark University) 17. The Political Economy of Rape - Meredeth Turshen (Rutgers University) 18. On the Torture of Others - Susan Sontag Part Five: Normalizing Terror 19. Cultural Appropriations of Suffering - Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman (Harvard University) 20. The Biopolitics of Disposability - Henry A. Giroux (MacMaster University) 21. Empire of Camps - Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University) Index
In late modernity, where the making of social worlds is governed by new media technologies, flexi... more In late modernity, where the making of social worlds is governed by new media technologies, flexible systems of exchange, and an unprecedented traffic in money, markets, and people across sovereign borders, the problematic concept of the nation has been recuperated to fasten subjects to political space. In this context, the projected frontiers of the nation are increasingly mapped out through the medium of language, thereby producing new mechanisms for membership and exclusion. With a focus on German cultural politics, I examine how regimes of nationality and imaginaries of citizenship are forged by a racialization of language. Under the impact of global capitalism and European unification, ethnolinguistic racism emerges as a discursive medium for reconstituting subjectivities and sovereignties.
The rapid emergence of global memory archives presents a novel challenge for anthropological rese... more The rapid emergence of global memory archives presents a novel challenge for anthropological research. Media industries, commodity capitalism, and digital technologies have altered the practices and possibilities of collective remembering. Competing representations of the past are forged, deposited, and exchanged in virtual space. How do anthropologists investigate these modalities of social remembering and forgetting when the machinations of past experience and the formations of historical consciousness are increasingly uncoupled from local memory communities? Through a critical engagement with anthropological concepts, research agendas, and debates about the multiple linkages between remembrance, past experience, and history, this article attempts to uncover the impact of globalization on collective memory practices.
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