Articles

Hunger, the Social, and States of Welfare in Modern Imperial Britain

Zach Chandler — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:44:31 -0800

I’ll begin at the end of my story. In a wonderfully imaginative reading of Carolyn Steedman’s Landscape for a Good Woman, Bruce Robbins begins this volume by deftly capturing the way in which Steedman structures the portrait of her mother around two defining and contradictory experiences of Britain’s new welfare state in the 1950s.

Neo-eugenics: A Feminist Critique of Agamben

Zach Chandler — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:41:05 -0800

In contemporary American poverty policy, the welfare mother is exposed to harsh treatment that is designed to maintain her participation in the low-wage labor force and, arguably, to discipline wage labor as a whole by restricting the alternatives to wage earning.

Worlding Justice/Commoning Matter

Marissa Gemma — Sat, 19 May 2012 16:23:37 -0700

Extending the worlding project

If worlding is about the making of social worlds that crisscross global space in divergent trajectories and variable speeds and defy the abstract universalisms of globalization,[1] I want to extend its mean

An Artist’s Statement, The Sounds of Forgetting: An Aural Exploration of Memory and Perception

Marissa Gemma — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:35:19 -0700

The Sounds of Forgetting is a sonic exploration of a failing memory. My intention was to create a soundscape of a mind suffering from dementia in which the listener is immersed in a disorienting chaos of memories, thoughts, and experiences.

Historical and Cultural Fires, Tribal Management and Research Issue in Northern California: Trails, Fires and Tribulations

Marissa Gemma — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:59:28 -0800

Indigenous people’s detailed traditional knowledge about fire, although superficially referenced in various writings, has not for the most part been analyzed in detail or simulated by resource managers, wildlife biologists, and ecologists. . . .
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Economists and Glory

David Palumbo-Liu — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:28:41 -0800

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Thinking Destruction: Creativity, Rational Choice, Emergence, and Destruction Theory

Zach Chandler — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:38:10 -0700

1. Toward a Theory of Destruction
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Comments on Rational Choice and the Humanities

Zach Chandler — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:22:52 -0700

As a cultural anthropologist invited to comment on these papers, I was initially tempted to situate myself in the privileged borderland between the humanities and the social sciences.
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Countering Legitimacy: Prison Protest and the Colonial Welfare State

Zach Chandler — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:30:54 -0800

Through the work of Michel Foucault and others we have grown accustomed to thinking of the welfare state as a biopolitical formation of liberal democracies. No less a dimension of the biopolitical state is the prison system with its regimes of incarceration and reform.
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Speculations on the Stationary State

Marissa Gemma — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:52:10 -0700

A crisis occurs sometimes lasting for decades. This exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves and that despite this the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making every effort to cure them within certain limits and to overcome them.
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