Search Results - "William Mazzarella"

On the Im/Propriety of Brand Names by Mazzarella, William

“…This paper asks what kind of modifications we might have to make to our conventional understandings of proper names to accommodate the im/propriety of brand…”
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The Anthropology of Populism: Beyond the Liberal Settlement by Mazzarella, William

“…This article suggests that although there is not much of an explicitly defined anthropology of populism, anthropologists have nevertheless been working for…”
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Tactics of oversight: A speculation by Mazzarella, William

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SENSE OUT OF SENSE: Notes on the Affect/Ethics Impasse by MAZZARELLA, WILLIAM

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The neurologist by Mazzarella, William

“…Summary This one‐hundred‐word vignette on insomnia, humor, inadvertence, and affect is written for a special section of “hundreds” for Kathleen Stewart…”
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The Myth of the Multitude, or, Who's Afraid of the Crowd? by Mazzarella, William

“…Crowds belong to the past of the (neo)liberal democracies of the global North. By the same token, they also mark the present of non- or insufficiently liberal…”
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Beautiful balloon: The digital divide and the charisma of new media in India by MAZZARELLA, WILLIAM

“…Against the view that the millennium brought only unrealistic hype around the socially transformative potentials of the Internet, I argue for skepticism…”
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TOTALITARIAN TEARS: Does the Crowd Really Mean It? by MAZZARELLA, WILLIAM

“…In this essay I explore the reaction, in Western media commentary, to the announcement of North Korean premier Kim Jong-il’s death in December 2011. I focus in…”
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Culture, Globalization, Mediation by Mazzarella, William

“…This chapter reviews the literature on media and globalization. It develops the argument that this literature foregrounds a problem that, ironically, it also…”
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BRANDING THE MAHATMA: The Untimely Provocation of Gandhian Publicity by MAZZARELLA, WILLIAM

“…This essay is an exploration of the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi as a contested figure in present-day Indian public culture and Gandhi as himself an…”
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Worlding Miss World, Bangalore, 1996 by Mazzarella, William

“…This essay revisits the much-discussed swarm of protests surrounding the 1996 Miss World pageant in Bangalore, India. It suggests that behind the clamour of…”
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"A ground of more than necessary love": Magic and loss in the poetry of K.D. Katrak by Mazzarella, William

“…Known primarily for his flamboyant and turbulent career in advertising, Kersy Katrak was also a remarkable poet. This article makes a case not only for…”
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A Different Kind of Flesh: Public Obscenity, Globalisation and the Mumbai Dance Bar Ban by Mazzarella, William

“…Why did Mumbai's famous dance bars have to close in 2005? This paper analyses the ban and its aftermath in terms of (1) a colonial and post-colonial genealogy…”
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‘Reality must improve’: The perversity of expertise and the belatedness of Indian development television by Mazzarella, William

“…This essay argues against reducing the recent history of global television to an oversimplified transition between ‘statist’ and ‘consumerist’ dispensations…”
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Reflections on Hope as a Category of Social and Psychological Analysis by Crapanzano, Vincent

“…Abstract only…”
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The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social . Edited by Patricia Ticineto  Clough with, Jean  Halley. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. Pp. 313. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper) by Mazzarella, William

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‘Reality must improve’:1 The perversity of expertise and the belatedness of Indian development television by Mazzarella, William

“…This essay argues against reducing the recent history of global television to an oversimplified transition between ‘statist’ and ‘consumerist’ dispensations…”
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"Very Bombay": Contending with the Global in an Indian Advertising Agency by Mazzarella, William

“…Abstract only…”
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Stigmas of the Tamil Stage: Ethnography of Special Drama Artists in South India . Susan Seizer by Mazzarella, William

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O Mito da Multitude, ou, Quem tem medo da Multidão by William Mazzarella

“…Hoje falamos de multitudes no lugar de multidões. Ou, para ser mais preciso, se queremos sugerir que os potenciais imanentes de um coletivo são politicamente…”
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