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The events of September 11, 2001, had reverberations which were felt across the world, not just in the United States. In their aftermath the United States refocused its foreign policies, a process that had a major impact upon the Asia Pacific region, especially China. In this cross-disciplinary collection of essays, almost two dozen scholars, the majority of them from China, range across a wide spectrum of issues to address just how Nine-Eleven affected the United States globally and at home. Different authors discuss non-Americans' images of the United States, the nation's international position and policies, the mindset and influence of neo-conservatives, American internal politics, debates over immigration, the cultural repercussions of Nine-Eleven for television, literature, drama, art, and music, and the implications of efforts to commemorate the events of September 11, 2001.Uniting all these essays is the effort to view the events of September 11, 2001, not in isolation but in a much broader context, a framework encompassing the entire sweep of US involvement in the world since the seventeenth century, and the country's political, intellectual, cultural, and literary history and traditions. The dialogue among them produces a complicated and fruitful dialectical network of cross-fertilization across different areas, a stimulating and intricate cat's cradle from which the enterprising reader may draw new and profitable intellectual discoveries.

THIS ESSAY ARGUES FOR THE INCLUSION OF "PEASANT STUDIES" WITHIN A BROADER FIELD OF HISTORICAL INQUIRY WHICH IS CALLED PROLETARIANIZATION STUDIES," BUT ALSO ARGUES THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO USE A PEASANT CONCEPT. IN PURSUING THIS ARGUMENT, IT EXAMINES SOME RECENT TRENDS IN THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL LITERATURE ON PESANTS. THE AUTHOR DOES THIS NOT AS A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE BUT AS AN ATEMPT TO EXPLORE THE BASIS FOR PROLETARIANIZATION STUDIES.

In digitalisierten, kapitalistischen Ökonomien nimmt Überwachung gegenwärtig eine ubiquitäre Stellung ein, deren Formen und Funktionen im Bereich der Surveillance Studies erörtert werden. Geprägt von einer Tradition gouvernementalitätskritischer Theorie stehen dabei vor allem das Verhältnis von Privatheit und Öffentlichkeit sowie von Un/Sichtbarkeit und Un/Sicherheit im Fokus, die in einer Reihe fundierter Zeitdiagnosen diskutiert werden. Während damit ergiebige Symptomanalysen vorliegen, erscheinen sie zugleich häufig als merkwürdig ursachenblind, was nicht zuletzt darin begründet sein mag, dass queerfeministische Positionen bislang nur wenig Beachtung finden. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird auf der Basis einer selektiven Literaturstudie der Versuch unternommen, die beiden Theoriestränge zusammenzuführen, um so ihre produktiven Potenziale auszuloten, aber auch mögliche Probleme herauszufiltern.