Thus far, these ideas have not found their way to our shores. Instead we employed one of your less celebrated ex-Prime Ministers as an international trade advisor: the one that ridiculed climate change and talked of turning the boats back. Ideas germinate though, so across the creative arts sector we are hyper-vigilant, ready for anything. Demand for our courses is still high, though slowly fraying at the edges. However, dark clouds loom over horizons near and far.
Yet, are we downhearted? No, not quite: our arts, media and design students are proving resourceful and robust; our staff endlessly ingenious in keeping the practice-based learning alive via computer screens and through carefully choreographed face-to-face sessions. I learned a lot from my six years at RMIT in Melbourne, and a lot from the spirit of colleagues across Australian HE and VE arts education— resilience, adaptability, and sheer bloody-mindedness to make do and make good.
In addition to leading roles in national and international higher education and global research assessment, his research into the imagery of war and peace has been presented to audiences throughout the world.
In addition to an exhibiting record, he has published nine books, including monographs on the British painter Stanley Spencer, Paul and John Nash and several comprehensive studies of art from both world wars. New York: Verso, By Paul Amar. Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. By Laleh Khalili. Yet American global supremacy is contested and transforming because of economic crises within the United States and emerging centers of economic and political gravity on the peripheries of the American Empire, such as from the constellation of global South states known as BRICS Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Yet the events of September 11, , marked a turning point in the post—Cold War era. The war on terror knit together the domestic logics of policing and prisons with the foreign policy of fighting terrorism.
Despite the important critical lens that has focused attention on the global and domestic battlegrounds of the war on terror and neoliberal economics, American studies remains mostly a field rooted to knowledge produced about the United States by scholars drawing on archives within the United States. Yet it is critical for understanding the global economic and military battlefields of the United States to shift the focus to the global sites confronting the impacts of US economic and military power.
If American studies practitioners agree that the United States is an empire, then perhaps we should proceed to map the United States not only from within but—importantly and critically—from the perspective of its imperial peripheries where we can view empire in all its global movements and presences. What do the imperial laboratories of Latin America teach us about the rise of austerity and prisons in the United States?
Can the formation of South—South economic cooperation counterbalance the dominance of US-led globalization? The important and engaging books reviewed in this essay provide precisely the sort of reorientation required of a new transnational American studies that is not merely concerned with the projection of America abroad but also
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