Book review: Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou , by Nellie Chu ChuNellie, Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, Duke University Press: Durham, NC, 2026; 265 pp., US$ 29.95 (paper): ISBN: 9781478033097

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments She would like to offer thanks to Charles E. Morris III for the opportunity to participate in this forum and for his always insightful engagement with her work, and to the Maine writing retreat participants who provided feedback on early portions of this essay Notes 1. Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 10. 2. Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 167, 157. 3. David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub, "Beyond Gay Pride," in Gay Shame, ed. David M. Halperin and Valerie Traub (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 3. 4. Halperin and Traub, "Beyond Gay Pride," 3. 5. Gould, Moving Politics, 70. 6. Gould, Moving Politics, 71–2. 7. Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 2. 8. Gould, Moving Politics, 88–9. 9. Debra Levine, "Demonstration of Care: The ACT UP Oral Histories on Video," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 16, no. 3 (2010): 442. 10. Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings, 170. 11. Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings, 173. 12. Michael Hardt, "Foreword: What Affects Are Good For," in The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social, ed. Patricia Ticineto Clough with Jean Halley (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), ix; Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg, The Affect Theory Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 12–13. 13. Gould, Moving Politics, 23. 14. Sally R. Munt, Queer Attachments: The Cultural Politics of Shame (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007), 103, 203, 216. 15. Jennifer Moon, "Gay Shame and the Politics of Identity," in Gay Shame, 360. 16. "GAY SHAME Seeks Nominations for Annual Shame Awards," Gay Shame San Francisco, http://www.gayshamesf.org/awards2003.html. 17. Halperin and Traub, "Beyond Gay Pride," 9; Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 37. 18. Douglas Crimp, "Mario Montez, for Shame," in Gay Shame, 72; Kathryn Bond Stockton, Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where "Black" Meets "Queer" (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 27. 19. For a particularly pointed criticism of the kinds of privilege enacted in discussions of shame, see: Judith Halberstam, "Shame and White Gay Masculinity," Social Text 23, no. 3–4 (2005): 219–233. 20. Halperin and Traub, "Beyond Gay Pride," 25. 21. Munt, Queer Attachments, 87, 102. 22. Heather Love, Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 14. 23. Love, Feeling Backward, 19. Additional informationNotes on contributorsErin J. RandErin J. Rand is Assistant Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University

Akhil Gupta Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012 368 pp ISBN 978 0 8223 5098 9 (pb) US$ 26.95 Matthew S Hull Government of Paper:...

American Studies in Honor of William Kenneth Boyd. By Members of the Americana Club of Duke University. Edited by David Kelly Jackson. [Duke University Publications.] (Durham: Duke University Press. 1940. Pp. ix, 377. $4.00.) American Studies in Honor of William Kenneth Boyd. By Members of the Americana Club of Duke University. Edited by Jackson David Kelly. [Duke University Publications.] (Durham: Duke University Press. 1940. Pp. ix, 377. $4.00.) Ella Lonn Ella Lonn Goucher College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 46, Issue 4, July 1941, Pages 932–933, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/46.4.932 Published: 01 July 1941

United States Policy toward China: Diplomatic and Public Documents, 1839–1939. Selected and arranged by Paul Hibbert Clyde, Department of History, Duke University. [Duke University Publications.] (Durham: Duke University Press. 1940. Pp. xv, 321. $3.50.) Get access United States Policy toward China: Diplomatic and Public Documents, 1839–1939. Selected and arranged by Clyde Paul Hibbert, Department of History, Duke University. [Duke University Publications.] (Durham: Duke University Press. 1940. Pp. xv, 321. $3.50.) Earl Swisher Earl Swisher University of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 46, Issue 3, April 1941, Pages 655–656, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/46.3.655 Published: 01 April 1941

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Previous articleNext article No AccessBook Review. Edited by Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. . Edited by Srila Roy. London: Zed, 2012. South Asian Feminisms. Edited by Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities. Edited by Srila Roy. London: Zed, 2012. Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics. By Naisargi N. Dave. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012.Amy BhattAmy BhattUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 40, Number 1Autumn 2014 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/676963 Views: 262Total views on this site For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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The Tumescent Citizen

When people think of academic libraries, they don’t usually think of them as wild places, or <em>de</em>humanizing institutions. Quite the opposite, in fact. The disciplinary order of the library is generally considered to be, along with higher education itself, an expression of the highest form of humanist discourse and ideals. Not only do these books bear an intellectual kinship with one another, but they are also all published by Duke University Press, and in their writings, the authors have each acknowledged one another as friends. The lessons offered by Nathan Snaza, Jack Halberstam, and Julietta Singh are useful to academic librarians because they call into question some of the metaphors, objectives, and stated values of our profession—things we tend to take for granted like mastery, discipline, universality, and order—and describe some of the ways in which these concepts are derived from colonial projects. Together, these books provide insight into what queer desire and decolonization have to do with each other, calling some of librarianship’s foundational principles into question and expanding the range of what can be thought in our own field.

Reviewed by: Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper by Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez Thea Quiray Tagle VERNADETTE VICUÑA GONZALEZ Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 219 pages. What can minor stories uncover about the intimacies of US empire? University of Hawai'i at Manoa Professor of American Studies Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez's second monograph, Empire's Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper, breaks decisively with historiographical conventions to address this question using provocative and refreshing methods uncommon to Philippine studies and Filipino American studies. Focusing its attention on Isabel Rosario Cooper, a biracial Filipina child star-turned-bodabil (the Philippines's homegrown version of vaudeville) performer in Manila who reinvented herself multiple times over, Empire's Mistress rewrites the life story of a mysterious and contradictory woman footnoted in history as "Gen. Douglas MacArthur's mistress" and makes a critical feminist intervention into now familiar histories of US imperialism in the Philippines. To understand Gonzalez's masterful contribution to transpacific Filipino history and cultural studies, it is important to situate this book alongside other interdisciplinary scholarship that similarly attends to the intimate labor of empire building and the sexuality of race in the US. The essays in Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Duke University Press, 2006), edited by Ann Laura Stoler, come to mind immediately, along with Lisa Lowe's The Intimacy of Four Continents (Duke University Press, 2015), of which an article-length version appears in Stoler's [End Page 481] edited collection. These texts assess comparatively and relationally the ways in which policing indigenous, mestiza, and colonized women's sexualities and intimacies was central to settler colonial and imperial nation-building projects in North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Like these texts, Empire's Mistress also recognizes colonized women's intimate labor (which includes flirting, sex, and seduction) with imperial men as survival strategies that reveal the profound sexual and racial violence at the heart of empire (17). The first half of the book, in particular, illuminates the ways both Cooper and her mother, Josefina, navigated the shifting terrain (both literal and metaphorical) of the "New Filipina" in the Philippines and the US during the Philippines's modernizing and transitional period between Spanish and American colonial rule and during the archipelago's immediate postindependence period. And in its focus on early–to mid–twentieth-century Filipina women's history as national history, Empire's Mistress is a standout text among Filipino studies scholarship by US-based academics, of a kind along with Denise Cruz's Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina (Duke University Press, 2012) and Genevieve Clutario's articles and forthcoming monograph. How Gonzalez tracks this story through the Cooper archives—or, more accurately, despite the lack of archives—is what truly distinguishes this manuscript from the other aforementioned works, which hew closely to historiographical methods of uncovering lost or buried materials in order to tell different stories. What Empire's Mistress does, instead, is to write into the absences, elisions, and lies of the archive to imagine motivations for Cooper's actions far more complicated than the dominant narrative of her as simply or only the Filipina paramour of famed US General MacArthur. It utilizes a method described by scholar and writer Saidiya Hartman as a practice of "critical fabulation," articulated in her 2008 essay "Venus in Two Acts" (Small Axe, 2008:1–14) and more fully fleshed out in her latest book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (W. W. Norton, 2020: 13, xv), which speculates on the practices of "minor figures" of black women as "radical thinkers who tirelessly imagined other ways to live." Within the pages of Empire's Mistress, Cooper emerges as a "dangerously desiring subject," a woman who refuses to be captured or contained by the colonial archive, and whose "choices illuminate how people adapted and survived in conditions not of their own making, and in circumstances that were designed to wear away their dignity and humanity" (6–7). Writing across [End Page 482] genres, geographies, and temporalities, Gonzalez creates a "shadow narrative of archival detritus, fabrications, second takes and other...

Fresh Networks:Science, Literature, Feminism, and Cultural Studies Randall Knoper (bio) Herrnstein Smith, Barbara . 2006. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. $74.95 hc, $21.95 sc. viii + 198 pp. Levine, George . 2006. Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. $29.95 hc. xxvii +304 pp. Grosz, Elizabeth . 2004. The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely. Durham and London: Duke University Press. $84.95 hc, $23.95 sc. viii + 314 pp. Grosz, Elizabeth . 2005Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power. Durham and London: Duke University Press. $79.95 hc, $22.95 sc. viii + 257 pp. Wilson, Elizabeth . 2004. Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body. Durham [End Page 198] and London: Duke University Press. $69.95 hc, $19.95 sc. x + 125 pp. Livingston, Ira . 2006. Between Science and Literature: An Introduction to Autopoetics. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. $40.00 hc, $18.00 sc; xi + 192pp. In the current scene, in which science—especially evolutionary psychology and cognitive science—predicts that the laboratory will soon provide explanations for all human behavior, including the creation and consumption of art and literature, what should the response of the humanities be? Should we be "talking back" to the scientists, displaying their ignorance of the complexities of our fields, attacking the capacity of scientific reductionism to explain Shakespeare? Should new lines be drawn and fortified in the "science wars"? Should modes of understanding established in the humanities be extended to a rethinking of the sciences? Can insights and models from the sciences be imported profitably into the ways we think about literature and culture, as ways to reframe the questions we ask or to reinvigorate our theories and practices? In sum, how exactly should we be thinking about the relations between the humanities and the sciences? The six books reviewed here will not gain the notoriety attained by Consilience, E. O. Wilson's popular attempt to promote a unification of knowledge under the banner of scientific reductionism, or How the Mind Works, Steven Pinker's attempt to give a full account of the mind through evolutionary psychology. This is a shame, since they provide smart, often provocative attempts to rethink the territory between what C. P. Snow famously called the "two cultures." Together they also reveal the turbulence in this academic pursuit, since, while they have plenty of points of agreement, they sometimes differ radically in their stances toward science, their attitudes about the value of social-constructionist accounts of knowledge, their friendliness toward scientific method and reductionism, and their conclusions about the compatibility or possibilities of exchange between the sciences and the humanities. One of the essays collected in Barbara Herrnstein Smith's Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human directly takes on "The Sciences and the Humanities Today," and much of the rest of the book is a brief for a constructivist understanding of knowledge—including knowledge in both the sciences and humanities. As such, it is a good place to begin. It lucidly (and polemically) lays out many of the fundamental conflicts at play in the territory between the sciences and the humanities. While this essay firmly sides with constructivism and an associated "relativism," the book works to defuse the caricatured positions in the so-called "science wars"—between the supposedly monstrous postmodern relativists and the supposedly naïve scientific [End Page 199] realists. Smith leans toward the side of feminist and antiracist critiques of science, but she distinguishes between constructivist and social constructionist understandings of knowledge, here making the case for the former. Social constructionism she characterizes as more politically engaged, focused on a cultural critique of the naturalization of beliefs about race, class, gender, and sexuality and of the ways such naturalization is implicated in sustaining dominant social and political formations. Constructivism, on the other hand, is more descriptive and explanatory, emerging most immediately from the work of Ludwik Fleck (whom Smith particularly champions), Thomas S. Kuhn, Michel Foucault, David Bloor, and Bruno Latour. From the constructivist point of view, Smith explains, "truth" is not what a realist thinks it is (or at least hopes it could almost...