This acclaimed international journal explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. Papers featured in this issue include: Spatialities of 'community', power and change: The imagined geographies of community projects "Gillian Rose, " One cleans, the other doesn't "Kathleen McHugh, " Naming the problem: Feminism and the figuration of conspiracy "P. G. Knight, " Of Desire, the Farang, and textual excursions: Assembling 'Asian AIDS "John Nguyet Erni, " Contrasting perspectives: cultural studies in Latin America and the United States: a conversation with N'estor Garcia Canclini "Patrick D. Murphy, " Experience, empathy and strategic essentialism "Katya Gibel Azoulay, " R Collecting loss "Carol Mavor, " Reviews.