The introduction of Disney’s first proprietary tween fashion collection, called D-Signed, marks an unprecedented expansion of synergistic marketing strategies for comprehensive lifestyle branding to the tween girl market in the United States. The production and exponential growth of this particular fashion collection allow girls to literally (at T…[Read more]

The Disney Channel hit show, Hannah Montana, constructs contemporary US girlhood and notions of femininity in relation to celebrity, such that its primary girl characters, Hannah Montana, Miley Stewart, and Lilly Truscott, as well as star Miley Cyrus, are positioned as particularly postfeminist subjects. In such a context, each of these girls can…[Read more]

This paper examines Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces (2007) in the context of Holocaust literature and historiography. It begins with an introduction to the genre of Holocaust literature and the problematic nature of ‘survivor’ testimony. Michaels’ work is then contextualized within this body of literature. The essay goes on to examine the means t…[Read more]

When examining a particular creative work, one has to be aware of a number of hidden relationships embedded within that work as a whole. Who created this work? What was their goal in doing so (if there ever was an established goal)? How am I supposed to interpret this work, given the nature in which it was created? Going down these paths of…[Read more]

In this essay, the author takes up William Walters’ (2006) incitement to theorize transmigration through the Deleuzian concept of control. The importance of mechanisms, or technologies, that modulate population ows are explored by paying close attention to novel strategies of migration policing and securitization in the United States, the E…[Read more]

In this essay, we trace the relations among the early years of the U.S.–Mexico borderlands after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), the role of racialist discourse in shaping the border and U.S. immigration policy, and contemporary bordering and security environments. Our ultimate aim is to show how contemporary security knowledge and p…[Read more]

Contribution to a published review panel on Mezzadra and Neilson’s book, Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor.

“Immigration” entry for Blackwell Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies.

The most commonly employed framework for assessing the religion of the Nara period (710-784) remains the state Buddhism model (kokka Bukkyo ron 国家仏教論) advanced by Inoue Mitsusada 井上光貞 (1917-1983). While Inoue provided the most systematic and influential version of this thesis, this article traces its origins at least as far back as the Meiji peri…[Read more]

This article explores the notion of the Buddhist canon in seventh- and eighth-century Japan. It relies on scriptorium documents, temple records, and manuscripts of catalogs to argue that there was no single Buddhist canon in ancient Japan; each was created at a particular moment in a unique configuration to respond to the needs of the patron and…[Read more]

Recent discoveries and scholarship on Japanese Buddhist manuscripts have illuminated new areas of research and raised previously unexplored questions in Buddhist studies and East Asian religions. This article introduces some of the recent finds and approaches to these materials. It focuses on three sets of sources: scriptorium documents from an…[Read more]

La Venezuela de la época de Gómez ha sido poco estudiada desde la perspectiva de los profundos cambios culturales que se generaron entre los años 1925 y 1935, cruzados por signos de la tradición y de la modernización cosmopolita. En Bulla y buchiplumeo… se aborda el impacto que los nuevos sujetos, realidades y tecnologías (de la prensa al cine…[Read more]

O presente estudo centra-se em dois capítulos específicos da Crónica de Portugal de 1419, dedicados às proezas de D. FuasRoupinho. Procedi a um exame aprofundado das narrativas que ele protagoniza na dita crónica, tendo como objectivo uma melhor compreensão da funcionalidade que esses relatos incorporam, quando enquadrados nos propósitos políti…[Read more]

A brief survey of chronicle-composition activity in medieval Portugal.

A presente dissertação enquadra-se no âmbito da história da historiografia e da cultura medieval. Através do exame sistemático de fontes cronísticas medievais, procurámos estabelecer um percurso evolutivo das imagens do primeiro rei luso, D. Afonso Henriques, relacionadas com as suas actividades militares, ocupando um lugar privilegiado a guerra…[Read more]

This blog post describes Sama indigenous peoples’ culture and lifeways.

This article argues the negative impacts of relocation among Aeta communities’ survival and sustainability.