affective worlds afforded by them. What forms of mobility, relationality, and politics are mediated by railroads, vis-à-vis roads? How are different kinds of rail service associated with (post)socialist and/or neoliberal economies? Which imaginaries and
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Precarious Connections: On the Promise and Menace of Railroad Projects
Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk
Refugia Roundtable
Imagining Refugia: Thinking Outside the Current Refugee Regime
Nicholas Van Hear, Veronique Barbelet, Christina Bennett, and Helma Lutz
neoliberalism in economics sits alongside neo-illiberalism in politics and culture. Against this grim background, this contribution takes as a starting point various recent proposals—some of them in the realms of fantasy—to depart from the usual three “durable
Introduction
Interrogating Aspirations through Migratory Mobilities
Supurna Banerjee and Eva Gerharz
regimes are tracked through the plantations’ genesis in mercantilism, its growth and expansion during colonialism, and changes brought about by neoliberalism and globalization. In a period of rapid casualization and retrenchment, the consequent changes to
(Re)Constructing the Baikal-Amur Mainline
Continuity and Change of (Post)Socialist Infrastructure
Olga Povoroznyuk
Siberian city in 2003, help to rethink the relationship between the postsocialist state and its citizens. 18 Stephen J. Collier argues that infrastructures emerge “as privileged sites where the relationship between neoliberalism and social modernity can
Place Making in Transit
Literary Interventions at the Airport and in the Underground
Emma Eldelin and Andreas Nyblom
contemporary London life, including critical commentary on the city as a hub of a neoliberal and globalized economy. Cultural Imaginaries of the Underground Looked at more generally, the space of the underground tends to be caught up in conflicting
Media Representations of Separated Child Migrants
From Dubs to Doubt
Rachel Rosen and Sarah Crafter
subjectivity that has become dominant in neoliberal, Anglo-American societies ( Pupavac 2008: 278 ). Hopes and “dreams” served a powerful and emotive motif. For example, The Mail printed a story about a separated child in Calais who was increasingly
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Legacies, Trajectories, and Comparison in the Anthropology of Buddhism
Nicolas Sihlé and Patrice Ladwig
2012 ) and the development of forms of ‘prosperity religion’ in the wake of economic transformations and the spread of neo-liberal capitalism ( Jackson 1999 ; R. Scott 2009 ). Returning to one of these key themes, Jane Caple’s contribution in the
Francis, a Criollo Pope
Valentina Napolitano
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