Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1951796
T. Boland
ABSTRACT Jobseeking is increasingly frequent within contemporary labour markets characterised by temporary contracts, flexible projects and precarious ‘gig-work’ – with economic shocks such as the Financial Crash and COVID-19 pandemic creating waves of redundancy and mass unemployment. How individual job-changers and jobseekers make sense of their experiences and shape their own conduct is explored here, drawing inspiration from the emergent turn to ‘economic theology’ to consider the continued influence of Christian legacies of pilgrimage. To supplement Turner’s understanding of pilgrimage as liminal ritual, the article adapts Weber’s Protestant Ethic thesis and Foucault’s later works on ‘modes of veridiction’, forms of tests and trials which ‘tell the truth’ about the subject. Thus, jobseeking pilgrimages are less seasonal collective religious ritual than a continuous individualised ethic; contemporary jobseeking involves pilgrimages of constantly deciphering signs, putting oneself to the test via the market and self-purification and transformation.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1919908
Benjamin P. Davis
ABSTRACT This review essay examines prominent definitions of Critical Theory today. Many of these definitions frame Critical Theory as a broad project that distinguishes itself from other theories by working across disciplines in order to contribute to emancipatory movements. Defined thus, Critical Theory serves as an umbrella term under which would sit, for instance, feminist, decolonial and intersectional theories. But when elaborating on their definitions of Critical Theory in public statements, several prominent institutional sites and recent books chart a lineage from Immanuel Kant to the Frankfurt School and beyond, highlighting recent debates with French poststructuralism. When the story of Critical Theory is told in this way, Critical Theory runs into the problems Bernard Harcourt effectively outlines in Critique & Praxis, such as retreating from political practice into epistemological questions, withdrawing from activism into academic enclaves and being co-opted by liberal politics. My argument is that certain figures advancing Black radical thought and cultural critiques—I focus on Joy James and Stuart Hall—give Critical Theory the theoretical and practical resources to side-step the problems of retreating into epistemology, the academy or liberalism. Re-oriented in this way, Critical Theory could more effectively diagnose and respond to the struggles of our time.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1929363
Robert A. Kopack
ABSTRACT The global space industry brings to mind the horizons of science and technology, large rockets, and heroic astronauts. The land and infrastructure used to launch things into the cosmos, however, is far less seen. Since the mid-1950s, large territories or ‘fall zones’ in the Kazakh steppe have been used for jettisoning stages of inter-continental ballistic missiles and other kinds of carrier rockets from the Soviet launch complex, in the south west of the country, known as the Baikonur Cosmodrome. In this article, I explore how land leases and use agreements between the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan after the fall of the Soviet Union have upcycled this Soviet era site into a private enclave for the accumulation of capital and waste of a now global space industry. As during the Cold War, launches from Baikonur depend upon thousands of miles of downrange land in Kazakhstan to be catchment areas for toxic fuel and rocket debris that falls from the sky during each and every launch. Here, I introduce the concept of an ‘inland-offshore’, to explain how post-Soviet land and infrastructure lease agreements have created offshore-like political and economic privileges and extraterritorial landscapes of proprietary governance.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1925135
Hilary Cooperman
ABSTRACT This paper argues the built structure of Israeli military occupation in the West Bank is only part of the mechanism that serves to define territorial boundaries and restrict Palestinian movement. A more pervasive and debilitating process of boundary formation occurs through affect-laden performances that typically take place in border areas or sites of surveillance, where state actors and technologies police Palestinians. These performances serve to produce fear and shame: two affects that circulate and act as structuring agents preventing Palestinian movement and resistance. Thus, Israel extends its borders through socio-spatial-technical practices, deep into Palestinian spaces. The underlying evidence for this study originated out of critical performance ethnography and a drama workshop conducted with Palestinians, theorised in part through Sara Ahmed's notion of an ‘affective economy’ of emotions. Overall, this study re-orients the predominant view of occupied space in the West Bank as an oppressive architectural blockade, to that of an affective regime constituted by a set of relations that require repeatable performances to produce the effect of territory. This re-framing opens possibilities for re-thinking resistance to the occupation by suggesting Palestinians may disrupt or alter the circulation of affect in order to reclaim their space and curtail Israeli extraterritorial ambitions.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1966313
N. Lombardo
ABSTRACT Between 1857 and 1921, the Port of New York’s waterfront infrastructure was the target of jurisdictional extraterritorialisation that would remove its control from local hands within the nation state. I present a case study of this process to understand how infrastructural extraterritoriality functions as a state response to the central tension of infrastructure: fixity and flow. This tension is characterised by the need to ensure the material embeddedness in the everyday life of cities of the Port of New York’s piers, wharves and slips, and the scale-jumping connectivity required to ensure the global networks of trade and transportation function appropriately. In this paper, I examine a case study of the Port of New York’s efforts to re-territorialise jurisdiction over waterfront infrastructure as attempts to resolve this tension. I demonstrate how not only is this tension on-going, but that it requires the sort of extraterritorial governance that has become commonplace over infrastructure today.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1914123
Ann E. Kingsolver
ABSTRACT This article explores the potential for exploitation of jurisdictional ambiguity presented by Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZs) in the United States as extraterritorial spaces within national territory. Nearly half a million people work in hundreds of U.S. FTZs. Transnational corporations are increasingly, with states’ assistance, operating in rural FTZs and asserting extrajudicial authority to create totalising environments of power and labour relations within the zones. Ethnographic examples are provided from research on how variously situated interviewees make sense of the web of local, state, national and international jurisdictions they navigate daily in FTZs in Kentucky and South Carolina. Fear, silencing and contingency are among the technologies of control workers experience in FTZs along with the daily physical disciplining of bodies leaving U.S. territory while still on U.S. soil. FTZs illustrate the extent to which U.S. economic activity is global, contradicting the economic nationalist and isolationist rhetoric of the recent Trump administration. That contradiction is foregrounded for workers in rural factories utilising Foreign-Trade Zones, who may be uncertain of the applicability of U.S. legal protections in the workplace.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1949365
Yi Wu
ABSTRACT This article is a historical ethnography of how village communities in southwest China had maintained a certain amount of autonomy amid the expanding state spatiality in the second half of the twentieth century. Shortly after the Chinese Communist Party took power in 1949, the party-state built up three successive subcounty administrative systems – the district-township system, the people’s commune system, and the current township system – to expand its institutional terrains in the rural areas. Meanwhile, village communities under the jurisdiction of these penetrating administrative structures strove to maintain their social and physical boundaries through a series of traditional mechanisms. The interaction between the state’s attempts to establish a socialist order and villages’ tenacity to maintain their special territorial status resulted in a three-layered land rural land ownership, under which villages were able to maintain a certain degree of extraterritoriality. Such a situation has made the state territorial control in rural areas incomplete and porous.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1928524
Pavan Mano
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 global pandemic necessitated nationwide lockdowns in many countries and Singapore was no different, announcing an eight-week ‘circuit-breaker’ in the beginning of April 2020. When it ended, the Singaporean government announced that restrictions on physical interactions would be eased in three phases. In Phase 1, all physical interactions between households continued to be disallowed with exceptions made for visits to parents and grandparents so that families could provide mutual support to one another. This article argues the permissibility of certain interactions hierarchised social ties according to a heteronormative logic where heteronormative kinship structures were elevated above others – thus excluding multiple constituencies that either did not have access to these kinship structures or for whom they did not provide support. Reading this instantiation as part of a larger reification of the heterosexual nuclear family unit in Singapore, this article posits that the demonstrable inability of heteronormative kinship to fulfil everyone’s support needs signals the urgency of rethinking extant heteronormative foundations of kinship in Singapore. Queering kinship in this way extends the existing body of queer studies scholarship in Singapore which has largely focussed on the effects of heteronormativity on LGBT lives by demonstrating how heteronormativity shapes non-LGBT lives as well.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1908904
Joshua Falcon
ABSTRACT Traditional understandings of extraterritoriality have overlooked human consciousness as an intimate province of territorial governance. Whereas traditional approaches to extraterritoriality often adopt a modernist understanding of territory, this article expands on the concept by referring to extraterritoriality as the process and practice of discovering, reifying and intervening in new domains of territorial governance. Insofar as territorial practices adapt in accordance with emergent knowledges and technologies, the realm of human consciousness appeared as an object of governmental interest during the mid-twentieth century alongside advances in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Through the subsequent illegalisation of psychedelic plants and fungi, in combination with the hegemonic norms established through disciplinary institutions, the full spectrum of human consciousness has since become territorialised as a new domain of governmental intervention and management. As such, this article argues that the regulation of cognition enforced through drug prohibitions and sanctions enfold human consciousness as an extended domain of extraterritoriality.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2021.1918012
D. Flaherty
ABSTRACT This article approaches the theorisation of extraterritoriality through an ethnographic examination of the shaping of end-of-life experiences and trajectories through federal healthcare governance in St. Croix, an island in the unincorporated territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands. Drawing on critical phenomenological approaches to the organisation of attention, I advance disregard as a central dynamic shaping how the end of life unfolds on St. Croix through the constitution of the U.S. Virgin Islands as exceptional. I demonstrate the workings of disregard and the reproduction of exceptionality through analyses of the everyday workings of Medicare, the universal health coverage programme for American citizens 65 years old and over. Specifically, the case study examines how the bureaucratic disregard within Medicare worked to create and then maintain a situation in which the medical equipment that can support and extend the capacities of older adults’ bodies in the territory was unavailable. I suggest that this points to the broader import of disregard and the reproduction of exceptionality in constituting the extraterritoriality of the U.S.’s insular areas, and to the importance of the body as a locus of extraterritoriality.
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