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Hurricane Katrina was a "disaster" both "natural" and "social." The storm destroyed a major American city that, like most American cities, was already the site of great inequality and vulnerability. It also dramatically put to the test both the logistical capabilities and the political responsibilities of national, state, and local governmental institutions. The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans is an important collection of essays on the dynamics of "remaking New Orleans" and the limits of that effort. We have thus asked a diverse group of political scientists to review the book, and at the same time to treat it as an opportunity to reflect on two related questions: 1) What are the most important economic, cultural, and political dimensions of the crisis precipitated by Katrina, both for New Orleans and for US cities more generally? 2) What resources does political science as a discipline possess to help us understand these issues, and can political science as a discipline do a better job on this score?—Jeffrey C. Issac, Editor

This essay examines the historical and theoretical development of sexuality in migration research. Noting gaps and omissions in the literature, the essay proposes a dual notion of sexuality including one that is produced by the intersection of other social identities such as class and race, and a queer studies-derived idea of the sexual that goes against the normalizing of heterosexual institutions and practices. Utilizing a case study of Filipina migrant workers, the essay demonstrates the pivotal role of sexuality in the future of gender and migration research through a critique of the implicit normative assumptions around family, heterosexual reproduction, and marriage that abound in this body of literature, and how a critical notion of sexuality enables a more inclusive and accurate portrait of global gendered migration.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Points of Departure -- 1. The Borders between Bakla and Gay -- 2. Speaking in Transit: Queer Language and Translated Lives -- 3. ''Out There'': The Topography of Race and Desire in the Global City -- 4. The Biyuti and Drama of Everyday Life -- 5. ''To Play with the World'': The Pageantry of Identities -- 6. Tita Aida: Intimate Geographies of Suffering -- Conclusion: Locating the Diasporic Deviant/Diva -- Notes -- An Elusive Glossary -- Works Cited -- Index

When imagined in relation to other regions in the United States, the Midwest is often positioned as the "norm," the uncontested site of middle-class white American heteronormativity. This characterization of the Midwest has often prevailed in scholarship on sexual identity, practice, and culture, but a growing body of recent queer work on rural sexualities, transnational migration, regional identities, and working-class culture suggests the need to understand the Midwest otherwise. This special issue offers an opportunity to think with, through, and against the idea of region. Rather than reinforce the idea of the Midwest as a core that essentializes and naturalizes American cultural and ideological formations, these essays instead open up possibilities for dispelling and unraveling the idea of the heartland. Our introduction discusses the theoretical and critical motivations for understanding the middle as a queer vantage, along with an overview of the six articles that make up this special issue, which collectively reimagine routes and paths, contours and shapes, directions and teloses of queer lives, practices, and institutions.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Introduction David -- 1 Displacing Homophobia -- 1 Can There Be an Anthropology of Homophobia? -- 2 Homophobia at New York's Gay Central -- 3 ''It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve'' -- 4 The Homosexualization of Pedophilia -- 5 Stolen Kisses -- 2 Transnational Homophobias -- 6 Not Quite Redemption Song -- 7 The Emergence of Political Homophobia in Indonesia -- 8 Homo Hauntings -- 9 Lucknow Noir -- Epilogue: What Is to Be (Un)Done? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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Abstract
In the middle of the global pandemic of 2020, as states of emergency were declared in both the Philippines and the United States, Filipinx scholars offer memories and reflections of life under martial law in the Philippines and its aftermath and resonances in the present.