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An interdisciplinary journal of transnational cultural studies

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Volume 15, Number 1:

Issue 39, Winter 2003

Editor’s Note
Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Violence and Redemption

Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal Imagination
Candace Vogler and Patchen Markell
Necropolitics
What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive?
Michael Warner
Man: An American Assay
Eva Lipman, Ken Graves, and Margaret Werry
"Comes a Time We Are All Enthusiasm": Understanding Palestinian Suicide Bombers in Times of Exighophobia
Ghassan Hage
Rotor Hearts: The Helicopter As Postmodern War's Pacemaker
Tim Blackmore
Disappointing Indigenous People: Violence and the Refusal of Help
Gilian Cowlishaw
Times of Crisis: Historicity, Sacrifice, and the Spectacle of Debacle in Mexico City
Claudio Lomnitz
Remembering/Forgetting the May Riots: Architecture, Violence, and the Making of "Chinese Cultures" in Post-1998 Jakarta
Abidin Kusno

Reconciliation and Response

From Reconciliation to Coexistence
Steve Sampson
Justice and Retribution in Postconflict Settings
Richard Ashby Wilson
Doubting the Unconditional Need for Retribution
Richard Falk
Departures from Violence: Love Is Not Enough
Laura Nader
Why Reconciliation? A Response to Critics
John Borneman

from the field

Kidney Broker, Manila, 2002
Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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