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Youthscapes
Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have created for themselves through their engagements with popular cultures, national ideologies, and global markets.The term \"youthscapes\" places local youth practices within the context of ongoing shifts in national and global forces. Using this framework, the book revitalizes discussions about youth cultures and social movements, while simultaneously reflecting on the uses of youth as an academic and political category. Tracing young people's movements across physical and imagined spaces, the authors examine various cases of young people as they participate in social relations; use and invent technology; earn, spend, need, and despise money; comprise target markets while producing their own original media; and create their own understandings of citizenship. The essays examine young Thai women working in the transnational beauty industry, former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, Latino youth using graphic art in political organizing, a Sri Lankan refugee's fan relationship with Jackie Chan, and Somali high school students in the United States and Canada. Drawing on methodologies and frameworks from multiple fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and film studies, the volume is useful to those studying and teaching issues of youth culture, popular culture, globalization, social movements, education, and media.By focusing on the intersection between globalization studies and youth culture, the authors offer a vital contribution to the development of a new, interdisciplinary approach to youth culture studies.
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The Imperial University
At colleges and universities throughout the United States, political protest and intellectual dissent are increasingly being met with repressive tactics by administrators, politicians, and the police-from the use of SWAT teams to disperse student protestors and the profiling of Muslim and Arab American students to the denial of tenure and dismissal of politically engaged faculty.The Imperial Universitybrings together scholars, including some who have been targeted for their open criticism of American foreign policy and settler colonialism, to explore the policing of knowledge by explicitly linking the academy to the broader politics of militarism, racism, nationalism, and neoliberalism that define the contemporary imperial state.
The contributors to this book argue that \"academic freedom\" is not a sufficient response to the crisis of intellectual repression. Instead, they contend that battles fought over academic containment must be understood in light of the academy's relationship to U.S. expansionism and global capital. Based on multidisciplinary research, autobiographical accounts, and even performance scripts, this urgent analysis offers sobering insights into such varied manifestations of \"the imperial university\" as CIA recruitment at black and Latino colleges, the connections between universities and civilian and military prisons, and the gender and sexual politics of academic repression.
Contributors: Thomas Abowd, Tufts U; Victor Bascara, UCLA; Dana Collins, California State U, Fullerton; Nicholas De Genova; Ricardo Dominguez, UC San Diego; Sylvanna Falcón, UC Santa Cruz; Farah Godrej, UC Riverside; Roberto J. Gonzalez, San Jose State U; Alexis Pauline Gumbs; Sharmila Lodhia, Santa Clara U; Julia C. Oparah, Mills College; Vijay Prashad, Trinity College; Jasbir Puar, Rutgers U; Laura Pulido, U of Southern California; Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, California State U, Long Beach; Steven Salaita, Virginia Tech; Molly Talcott, California State U, Los Angeles.
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Boycott
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? In this short essential book, Sunaina Maira addresses these key questions. Boycott! situates the academic boycott in the broader history of boycotts in the United States as well as in Palestine and shows how it has evolved into a transnational social movement that has spurred profound intellectual and political shifts. It explores the movement’s implications for antiracist, feminist, queer, and academic labor organizing and examines the boycott in the context of debates about Palestine, Zionism, race, rights-based politics, academic freedom, decolonization, and neoliberal capitalism.
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Thinking Resistance, “Emergency,” and Kismet: A Response to Dylan Rodríguez’s Presidential Address
At the beginning of his talk, Rodríguez comments briefly that it has been an “extraordinary couple of years” due to the pandemic and global uprisings but does not mention the virtual nature of the conference or of teaching during the lockdown nor elaborate on the convergence of “pandemic with police power.” In his brilliant analysis, the work of American studies is defined in relation to the imperial state’s need for “infiltration of ideas” as well as pedagogy in order to reform, rather than radically transform, the state apparatus, thus the need for a complex and militant “anti-‘American’” dissent. The battles over masking only amplified preexisting culture and race wars in which entrenched libertarianism and neoliberal individualism evaded the economic and existential precarity caused by degraded social welfare and state health care. The Zionist lobby and anti-Palestinian organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League have increasingly deployed the language of tolerance and civility to tar critics of Israel with charges of anti-Semitism.7 These liberal strategies, illustrating Rodríguez’s argument, can be more damaging than frontal attacks on the Palestine justice movement because the language of racism is harder to challenge
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5 AAAS Forty Years On: The Boycott, Internationalism, and West Asian American Critique
The Palestinian liberation struggle was an element of the Third Worldist politics of that moment and was viewed by leftists, including Black Power activists, as an anticolonial struggle, especially after the 1967 Israeli annexation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.3 What was so remarkable, then, about the boycott resolution? Palestinian American scholar Steven Salaita famously called this lockdown on open critique of Israel the \"Palestinian exception to the First Amendment and to academic freedom. The Academy and Justice for Palestine, the boycott helped enlarge academic freedom for US scholars while challenging the un-freedom of Palestinian academics, students, and people in general and enlarging possibilities for research, and even hiring and promotion. Not coincidentally, these represented mobilization in interdisciplinary fields with a critical perspective on issues of race and nationalism, and expressions of dissent by scholars willing to challenge the powerful status quo.
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Introduction
Yet American studies scholars have pointed to the ways in which the internationalizing currents in the field have sometimes recentered a US perspective and privileged the concerns of US academics.2 In the last several years, border studies scholars have called for more cross-regional, comparative, and inter-American studies research that decenters the US.3 It was this need for a critical transnational perspective that inspired the Mellon-funded initiative in comparative border studies from 2015 to 2018, co-directed by myself and Robert Irwin, a scholar of Mexican and Mexican American history. The US has externalized its borders (as has the EU), mandating immigration checks inside Canada and Mexico, and also moved the border to the interior, far from the border with Mexico, underscoring that it is a fluid, racial, and not just territorial boundary.8 In their important intervention in critical border studies, Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson incisively critiqued the preoccupation with the border as wall,9 and thus a site only of exclusion. [...]as Maurice Stierl observes of other work in critical border studies, the emphasis on the \"contingent, ambiguous, and dynamic\" nature of borders could risk understating the real violence and force of borders that is gendered and racialized.11 New and comparative work on land, sea, and aerial borders reveals the role they play in militarization, as part of a global securitization industry that restricts human mobility based on the \"perpetual logic of war, surveillance, and security. Vigorous and creative, if deeply contested, modes of solidarity and resistance have emerged in border zones around the world, as illustrated by Christine Ahn's reflection on the women's peace delegation to Korea and transnational feminist resistance to colonial borders, the WatchTheMed Alarm Phone report on migrant women traveling to Europe,16 and Dominguez's essay on border arts/technology projects on the Mexico/US border.
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