INTRODUCTION

Jane Mummery
Fractured Legitimations

ESSAYS

James C. Ross
The Promise of Promise: A Respite from Contingency

Sara Ahmed
The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism

Holly Randell-Moon
Creating Pope John Paul II: Religion, the 'War on Terror'
and the Politics of Discourses of Howardage

CONFERENCE REPORT

Kay Schaffer
Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness: Reflecting on Ten Years of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

ESSAYS

Nirmal Trivedi
Biopolitical Convergences: Narmada Bachao Andolan and Homo Sacer

Jeremy Fernando
The Spectre of the National that Haunts Singapore (Cinema), Or,
You Can Only See Ghosts if You are Blind

REVIEWS & ESSAYS

Susanne Buckley-Zistel
Grief As A Resource For Politics
(Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, London/New York: Verso, 2004.)

Fiona Jenkins
Belonging, Otherness, Contestation
(Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giugni, Florence Passy, Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe, Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.)

Ayse Deniz Temiz
Dialogues with A Forgetful Nation: Genealogy of Immigration Discourses
(Ali Behdad, A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005.)

Vijay Devadas
Postcolonial Contradictions, Ambiguities and Interventions
(Simon Featherstone, Postcolonial Cultures, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.)