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Post Black: How A New Generation is Redefining African American Identity

Reniqua Allen — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:58:01 +0000

Post Black is an overdue exploration that probes the question of what it means to be young and black in 21st century America.

Aaj Kaal (Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow) [video]

Nirmal Puwar — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:13:36 +0000

It has become commonplace to film elders. But it is not so usual for elders to make a film themselves. A little known film, Aaj Kaal (1990) was made over twenty years ago by South Asian elders, within a community education project based in Southall (London), directed by Avtar Brah and coordinated by Jasbir Panesar...

The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television

Jonathan Stewart — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:52:51 +0000

Review by Jonathan Stewart
The essays in The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television concentrate on the importance of place and space to the series. It has become a cliché to describe the city of Baltimore as one of the leading characters in The Wire, a pitfall that this collection neatly sidesteps.

The Politics of the Veil

Irmak Ertuna — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:06:32 +0000

“In the end it’s not because of Islam that we stay at home, but because of French society”. This testimony reproduced in Joan Wallach Scott’s book The Politics of the Veil sums up the current plight of Muslim women in France. Indeed, the book, as well as the debates circulating on the issue of the veil, reveals more about French society and its assumptions regarding equality and democracy than it does about Islam.

Aesthetic Interrogation of Refugeeism, Migration and a Post-September 11 World

Shinhyung Choi — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:07:04 +0000

Like Barthes’ photographic image containing accidental punctum, the texts and the pictures in Elsewhere, Within Here work to startle, wound and move us into thinking.

Re:Imagining Change

Jason Harle — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:58:37 +0000

Long-time activists Patrick Reinsborough and Doyle Canning have drawn from their wealth of practical contributions to successful and creative campaigns for ecological and social justice to craft the insightful and useful book, Re:Imagining Change.

Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the “War on Terror”

Enrica Picarelli — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:44:34 +0000

At the heart of Reframing 9/11 is an investigation of the processes of cultural formation unfolding within a system of power which takes as its object the coming into being of the subject, that is, the whole of the processes by which we develop an understanding of ourselves and represent it to the world through semiotic means. This is the regime of biopolitical sovereignty that informs...

Transgressing Virtual Geographies

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:08:44 +0000

Maryam Monalisa Gharavi interviews Ricardo Dominguez

As co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater, Ricardo Dominguez’ name has long been legendary among hackers, proto-internet enthusiasts, and performance artists. For more than 20 years Dominguez has pretzeled a non-traditional professional trajectory…

Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema

Emiliano Perra — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:06:53 +0000

Right from the outset, Screening Strangers lets the reader know what it is about. With a clever pun, the title refers to the act of screening (as in putting on screen, representing in cinema) migrants that are also screened (as in filtering the desired and the undesired) by a whole array of institutions within Fortress Europe.

Revisionist Multiculturalism and its Neo-Racist Proclivities

Gopal Nair — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:17:06 +0000

The central focus of this article is to demonstrate insufficient media attention to a subterranean coded message beneath the ideological demagoguery dressed as revisionist justifications against multiculturalism. The media rationalizations, currently in vogue, not only challenge and reject permeation of…