Issues in Volume 19

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Volume 19, Number 3
Fall 2007
Didier Fassin analyzes humanitarianism as a politics of life; Asef Bayat reveals the politics of fun in Islamism; Paul Frosh interrogates advertising, consumption, and violent conflict; Hugh Raffles uncovers the connections among Jews, lice, and history; and more…
Volume 19, Number 2
Spring 2007
Lauren Berlant discusses post-Fordist affect in La Promesse and Rosetta; Jason Pine tracks the economy of speed in the new narco-capitalism; Andrew Lakoff prepares us for the next emergency; Éric Fassin analyzes the new geopolitics of Vatican theology; and more…
Volume 19, Number 1: Cultures of Democracy
Winter 2007
Dipesh Chakrabarty investigates the idea of the political in the context of postcolonial India; Carlos Forment examines the relationship between football clubs and the 2003 municipal elections in Buenos Aires; Charles Taylor considers the consequences of expressive individualism for our notions of political efficacy; Lisa Wedeen examines qāt chew gatherings as a form of public sphere practice in Yemen; and more…

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