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The Cartography of National Humiliation and the Emergence of China’s Geobody
Maps are an important part of the continual self-crafting of any nation’s image. The Chinese maps examined here do much more than celebrate the extent of Chinese sovereignty; they also mourn the loss of national territories through a cartography of…Untimely Vision: Aimé Césaire, Decolonization, Utopia
It is not clear that a constitutive understanding of colonial modernity requires a tragic understanding of colonial politics. Why should the options for thinking about postcoloniality be limited to choices between romance or tragedy, revolution or…Beyond Good and Evil, Whither Liberal Sacrificial Love?
How does waging a war premised on an absolute division between “those who stand with us” and all others square with another message preached in Christian pulpits every Easter season: the message of a sacrificial love offered not merely to friends but…Freedom and Blasphemy: On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons
It is not uncommon that the press is seen to play a special role in history. In such cases, this perception may, in part, reflect the way in which it seems to embody freedom and, at times, to give concrete form to the idea that a people can be a hist…Imaging Tibet
A photo-documentary portfolio from Tibet.