Lisa Lowe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3624944 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lisa Lowe |
| PRENOMES | Lisa |
| SOBRENOME | Lowe |
| ASSINATURA | LOWE L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1335 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Against Imperial Knowledges
The Dialectics of Abolition
The Dialectics of Abolition Lisa Lowe (bio) Ruth Wilson Gilmore has devoted decades to the study of the prison-industrial complex and to organizing for its abolition, and her profound contributions have become cornerstones of carceral studies and the prison abolition movement owing to their compelling explanatory power. Her famous formulations that "capitalism requires inequality and racism enshrines it"1 and that "racism is the state-sanctioned …
Time Binds
Queer and Not NowIn Nguyen Tan Hoang's video k.i.p. (2002), a young man faces a past that may or may not be his.The video opens with a series of grainy, flickering, blurry shots of body parts flashing across the screen; eventually it's clear that the scene shows two white men having sex.The men's shaggy haircuts and sideburns and the low-res quality of the video images suggest that the period is the 1970s or early 1980s.For the full fourminute du…
Comparative Global Humanities After Man
The core concept of 'the human' that anchors so many humanities disciplines - history, literature, art history, philosophy, religion, anthropology, political theory, and others - issues from a very particular modern European definition of Man 'over-represented' as the human. The history of modernity and of modern disciplinary knowledge formations are, in this sense, a history of modern European forms monopolizing the definition of the human and p…
Critical Terrains
capture the ambiguity or nuance of the original.Above all, there are two to whom I give other than intellectual acknowledgment: Joseph Nebolon, for his equanimity and unwaver ing support, and Juliet, who delights, and gives me reason.
Critical Terrains
Situating OrientalismPar la diversite de son humeur, tour a tour mystique OU joyeuse, babillarde, taciturne, emportee, nonchalante, elle allait rappel ant en lui mille desirs, evoquant des instincts OU des reminis cences.Elle etait l' amoureuse de tous les romans, !'heroine de tous les drames, le vague elle de tous les volumes de vers.11 retrouvait sur ses epaules la couleur ambree de l' odalisque au bain; elle avait le corsage long de chatelaine…
Transpacific Entanglements
Other Humanities and the Limits of the Human
New Worlds “Discover” Asia
New Worlds “Discover” Asia Lisa Lowe (bio) Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia, curated by Dennis Carr, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 08 18, 2015– 02 15, 2016. Among the extraordinary pieces collected in the exhibit Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia, at the Museum Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, is a mid-eighteenth-century desk and bookcase made in Puebla, Mexico (fig. 1). The piece, possibly commissioned by Pedro José O…
The Intimacies of Four Continents
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism -- Back cover
History Hesitant
This article explores under what conditions, with what methods, and in relation to what materials the question of recovery with respect to slavery and freedom can be posed. Accounts of Black Atlantic and African American slavery are central to understanding enslavement and the terrains of struggles for freedom, yet the questioning of recovery also requires a critical examination of the genealogy of freedom itself. The author argues that liberalis…
Strange Affinities
T his book emerged from a desire to identify and invent analytics through which to compare racial formations, in distinction to comparative race scholarship that simply parallels instances of historical similarity across racial groups in the United States.Such a project entails not only articulating commonalities between communities of color but imagining alternative modes of coalition beyond prior models of racial or ethnic solidarity based on a…
Reckoning Nation and Empire
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So Much Wasted
In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists including Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramović, and a hunger…
Monstrous Intimacies
In *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects*, Christina Sharpe theorizes the afterlife of slavery as a condition she terms "wake": the ongoing state of Black subjection to anti-Black violence and the haunting presence of the past. Sharpe argues that this "wake" shapes contemporary Black life in profound ways, influencing everything from social structures and political discourse to cultural production and personal experience. Drawing on…
Autobiography Out of Empire
In Reconstructing Womanhood, Hazel Carby showed us that reading lost histories required the deconstruction of liberal institutions and ideologies that had worked to render them illegible. My contribution takes up this dimension of Carby's work as I discuss the place of the autobiographical genre in reckoning with histories of slavery and empire, beginning with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the Africa…
The Witch’s Flight
Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”—not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such as film and television but as a set of processes involved in the production and reproduction of social reality itself —Keeling describes how the cinematic st…
Desiring China
Through window displays, newspapers, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, individuals with needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such 'desiring subjects' is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world. In a study at once ethnogra…
The Intimacies of Four Continents
The Intimacies of Four Continents
Positively No Filipinos Allowed
From the perspectives of ethnic studies, history, literary criticism, and legal studies, the original essays in this volume examine the ways in which the colonial history of the Philippines has shaped Filipino American identity, culture, and community formation. The contributors address the dearth of scholarship in the field as well as show how an understanding of this complex history provides a foundation for new theoretical frameworks for Filip…
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity
Impossible Desires
Section I
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Insufficient difference
Pedagogies of Crossing
On Living the Privileges of Empire I did not awake this morning to the deafening noise of sirens or the rocketing sound of nonstop bombs.I did not awake to the missiles that fall like rain from the sky, exploding on contact with land, staking out huge craters within the earth, collapsing people into buildings, trees into rubble, men into women, hands into feet, children into dust.∞ Two thousand tons of ammunition in three hours.Forty-two air raid…
Desiring China
Through window displays, newspapers, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, individuals with needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues that the creation of such 'desiring subjects' is at the core of China's contingent, piece-by-piece reconfiguration of its relationship to a post-socialist, neo-liberal-dominated world. In a study at once ethnogra…
Global Divas
Points of DepartureThe effect of mass migrations has been the creation of a radically new type of human being, people who root themselves in ideas rather than place, in memories as much as material things; people who have been obliged to define themselves-because they are so defined by others-by their otherness; people in whose deepest selves strange fusions occur, unprecedented unions between what they were and where they find themselves.The mig…
Racial Castration
Racial CastrationI am an Oriental.And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices-including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labor organizing, and various movements-challenge contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of production. Reworking Marxist critique, these essays on Asia, Latin America, the C…
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences Lisa Lowe University of California, San Diego In a recent poem by Janice Mirikitani, a Japanese-American nisei woman describes her sansei daughter's rebellion.1 The daughter's denial of Japanese -American culture and its particular notions of femininity reminds the nisei speaker that she, too, has denied her antecedents, rebelling against her own more traditional issei mot…
Monstrous Intimacies
In *Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects*, Christina Sharpe theorizes the afterlife of slavery as a condition she terms "wake": the ongoing state of Black subjection to anti-Black violence and the haunting presence of the past. Sharpe argues that this "wake" shapes contemporary Black life in profound ways, influencing everything from social structures and political discourse to cultural production and personal experience. Drawing on…
The Intimacies of Four Continents
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism -- Back cover
History Hesitant
This article explores under what conditions, with what methods, and in relation to what materials the question of recovery with respect to slavery and freedom can be posed. Accounts of Black Atlantic and African American slavery are central to understanding enslavement and the terrains of struggles for freedom, yet the questioning of recovery also requires a critical examination of the genealogy of freedom itself. The author argues that liberalis…
So Much Wasted
In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Homing in on those who starve themselves for various reasons and the cultural and political contexts in which they do so, he examines the diagnostic history of anorexia nervosa, fasts staged by artists including Ana Mendieta and Marina Abramović, and a hunger…
Comparative Global Humanities After Man
The core concept of 'the human' that anchors so many humanities disciplines - history, literature, art history, philosophy, religion, anthropology, political theory, and others - issues from a very particular modern European definition of Man 'over-represented' as the human. The history of modernity and of modern disciplinary knowledge formations are, in this sense, a history of modern European forms monopolizing the definition of the human and p…
The International within the National
Critical Terrains
Situating OrientalismPar la diversite de son humeur, tour a tour mystique OU joyeuse, babillarde, taciturne, emportee, nonchalante, elle allait rappel ant en lui mille desirs, evoquant des instincts OU des reminis cences.Elle etait l' amoureuse de tous les romans, !'heroine de tous les drames, le vague elle de tous les volumes de vers.11 retrouvait sur ses epaules la couleur ambree de l' odalisque au bain; elle avait le corsage long de chatelaine…
Insufficient difference
Section I
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Utopia and Modernity
(2001). Utopia and Modernity: Some Observations from the Border. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 10-18
Literary Nomadics in Francophone Allegories of Postcolonialism
Lisa Lowe, Literary Nomadics in Francophone Allegories of Postcolonialism: Pham Van Ky and Tahar Ben Jelloun, Yale French Studies, No. 82, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms, Volume 1 (1993), pp. 43-61
Rereadings in Orientalism
T he Western European power to name, represent, and narrate stories about non-Europeans is a privilege that derives from the histories and circumstances of Western European colonial involvements with non-European worlds. The diversity of narratives about European notions of national identity and their figurations of cultural, sexual, and class otherness express not only changing proximities and shifts in power between Western and non-Western worl…
Time Binds
Queer and Not NowIn Nguyen Tan Hoang's video k.i.p. (2002), a young man faces a past that may or may not be his.The video opens with a series of grainy, flickering, blurry shots of body parts flashing across the screen; eventually it's clear that the scene shows two white men having sex.The men's shaggy haircuts and sideburns and the low-res quality of the video images suggest that the period is the 1970s or early 1980s.For the full fourminute du…
Autobiography Out of Empire
In Reconstructing Womanhood, Hazel Carby showed us that reading lost histories required the deconstruction of liberal institutions and ideologies that had worked to render them illegible. My contribution takes up this dimension of Carby's work as I discuss the place of the autobiographical genre in reckoning with histories of slavery and empire, beginning with The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the Africa…
The Power of Culture
The Power of Culture Lisa Lowe (bio) In the wake of the meeting of the 1996 Association for Asian American Studies in the nation’s capital, it seems appropriate to meditate on the concept of the “nation,” the universalism that underlies that concept, and the critique of that universalism necessitated by a materialist account of Asian immigration to the United States. In this essay, I frame a critique of universalism in terms of the historically c…
The Dialectics of Abolition
The Dialectics of Abolition Lisa Lowe (bio) Ruth Wilson Gilmore has devoted decades to the study of the prison-industrial complex and to organizing for its abolition, and her profound contributions have become cornerstones of carceral studies and the prison abolition movement owing to their compelling explanatory power. Her famous formulations that "capitalism requires inequality and racism enshrines it"1 and that "racism is the state-sanctioned …
Other Humanities and the Limits of the Human
New Worlds “Discover” Asia
New Worlds “Discover” Asia Lisa Lowe (bio) Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia, curated by Dennis Carr, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 08 18, 2015– 02 15, 2016. Among the extraordinary pieces collected in the exhibit Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia, at the Museum Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, is a mid-eighteenth-century desk and bookcase made in Puebla, Mexico (fig. 1). The piece, possibly commissioned by Pedro José O…
Guest Editor's Introduction
Since its emergence in the late 1960s, Asian American studies has been simultaneously a site for the critique of knowledge formations and a site for the generation of practices aimed at social change. T h e contemporary shift in the demographics of the Asian population within the United States, and the international, political, social, and economic forces of which those demographics are an index, are currently initiating reformulations of the obj…
Rereadings in Orientalism
T he Western European power to name, represent, and narrate stories about non-Europeans is a privilege that derives from the histories and circumstances of Western European colonial involvements with non-European worlds. The diversity of narratives about European notions of national identity and their figurations of cultural, sexual, and class otherness express not only changing proximities and shifts in power between Western and non-Western worl…
Woman, Native, Other
The Story Began Long Ago... I. Commitment from the Mirror-Writing Box The triple bind Silence in time Rites of passage The Guilt Freedom and the masses For the people, by the people, and from the people Vertically imposed language: on clarity, craftsmanship, and She who steals language A sketched window on the world The infinite play of empty mirrors Writing woman II. The Language of Nativism: Anthropology as a Scientific Conversation of Man with…
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity: Marking Asian American Differences Lisa Lowe University of California, San Diego In a recent poem by Janice Mirikitani, a Japanese-American nisei woman describes her sansei daughter's rebellion.1 The daughter's denial of Japanese -American culture and its particular notions of femininity reminds the nisei speaker that she, too, has denied her antecedents, rebelling against her own more traditional issei mot…
Critical Terrains
Literary Nomadics in Francophone Allegories of Postcolonialism
Lisa Lowe, Literary Nomadics in Francophone Allegories of Postcolonialism: Pham Van Ky and Tahar Ben Jelloun, Yale French Studies, No. 82, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms, Volume 1 (1993), pp. 43-61
On Contemporary Asian American Projects
Decolonization, Displacement, Disidentification
Immigrant Acts
Guest Editor's Introduction
Since its emergence in the late 1960s, Asian American studies has been simultaneously a site for the critique of knowledge formations and a site for the generation of practices aimed at social change. T h e contemporary shift in the demographics of the Asian population within the United States, and the international, political, social, and economic forces of which those demographics are an index, are currently initiating reformulations of the obj…
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices-including anticolonial and feminist struggles, peasant revolts, labor organizing, and various movements-challenge contemporary capitalism as a highly differentiated mode of production. Reworking Marxist critique, these essays on Asia, Latin America, the C…
The Power of Culture
The Power of Culture Lisa Lowe (bio) In the wake of the meeting of the 1996 Association for Asian American Studies in the nation’s capital, it seems appropriate to meditate on the concept of the “nation,” the universalism that underlies that concept, and the critique of that universalism necessitated by a materialist account of Asian immigration to the United States. In this essay, I frame a critique of universalism in terms of the historically c…
The International within the National
Immigrant Acts
Memories of Colonial Modernity
(1998). Memories of Colonial Modernity: Dogeaters. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 161-164
Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures . M. Jacqui Alexander , Chandra Talpade Mohanty Between Marriage and the Market
Epistemological Shifts
Utopia and Modernity
(2001). Utopia and Modernity: Some Observations from the Border. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 10-18
Racial Castration
Racial CastrationI am an Oriental.And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man
The International within the National
ly; there is never a moment in which race exists simply as race. Up until 1870, American citizenship was granted exclusively to persons; in 1870, men of African descent could become naturalized, but bar to citizenship remained for Asian men until repeal acts of 1943-52. Whereas of citizen was first inseparable from his whiteness, as state extended citizenship to nonwhite persons, it formally designated these subjects male as well. The 1943 enfran…
Global Divas
Points of DepartureThe effect of mass migrations has been the creation of a radically new type of human being, people who root themselves in ideas rather than place, in memories as much as material things; people who have been obliged to define themselves-because they are so defined by others-by their otherness; people in whose deepest selves strange fusions occur, unprecedented unions between what they were and where they find themselves.The mig…
Heterogeneity, Hybridity, Multiplicity
Impossible Desires
Section I
Could Edward Said have known at the time he wrote Orientalism that he would not only be revolutionizing the field of Middle East Studies and the disciplines at its core, but also a number of allied and aligned fields, one of which, Women's Studies, had not fully come into being? This presentation is about genealogies of knowledge, in this case Middle East gender studies. It is about counter-hegemonic thought, in this case, the rupture of the gene…
Insufficient difference
Pedagogies of Crossing
On Living the Privileges of Empire I did not awake this morning to the deafening noise of sirens or the rocketing sound of nonstop bombs.I did not awake to the missiles that fall like rain from the sky, exploding on contact with land, staking out huge craters within the earth, collapsing people into buildings, trees into rubble, men into women, hands into feet, children into dust.∞ Two thousand tons of ammunition in three hours.Forty-two air raid…
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