The labour of repair rooted in tutelage and kinship, and the loyalties and discontents that surround repair worlds regulate social order. They recast questions of interdependence and difference in cities. Kolkata’s cargo-cyclists and repair workers who assemble and maintain these old vehicles redeem the city from its disrepairs. Their location and lives are read against the history of capital, contemporary infrastructure building and the logistics of labour. While tutelage fulfils the promise of labour for those who were previously excluded from it, the kinship fostered in Kolkata’s repair worlds continues to keep workers at the margins of capital and profits.
Long Form Winner
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City by Kai-cheung Dung, translated from the Chinese by Anders Hansson, Bonnie S. McDougall, and the author (Columbia University Press)
Short Form Winner
Jagannath: Stories, Cheeky Frawg)
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A Roadmap To Mature Masculinity, With Joseph Losi
“Hiding oneself is the hallmark of insecure attachment”.
“There have been so many times I have seen a man waiting to weep, but instead beat his heart until it was unconscious” – Nayyirah Waheed
Masculinity is in the air we breathe. It is an invisible force used to define who a person is. Even during infancy, boys and girls are treated differently as parents’ expectations lead to reinforcement of different (and binary) gendered behaviors.
Why the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is important in Islamic history
Why the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is important in Islamic history
The conjunction was believed to mark the arrival of a divinely guided universal ruler
On December 21, 2020, the day of the winter solstice, the world will witness a planetary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. Though a conjunction of these two planets happens every twenty years or so, rarely do both of them come quite so close to each other or are so clearly visible in the sky. In fact, the last time these two planets appeared in such close proximity was on July 16, 1623; and the last time such a conjunction occurred at night (when it could actually be observed by the naked eye) was March 4, 1226.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 (2003) 62-88
The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960
San Diego State University
Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans
awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate
representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in
significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts,
the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet
totalitarianism, Christian and Jewish theological reflections, pioneering
scholarly publications, and mass-media portrayals. These early postwar
attempts to comprehend the Jewish tragedy within prevailing cultural
paradigms provided the foundation for subsequent understandings of
that event.
Between the end of the war and the 1960s, as anyone who has lived