Packet 5: Bonus 9
A book by Mahmood Mamdani is titled for “Subject” and people named for this concept, whose sovereignty-extending “flexible” form was theorized by a Malaysian anthropologist. For 10 points each:
[10m] Lisa Lowe argues that Asian-Americans were coded as the opposite of what concept in the book Immigrant Acts? Lowe illustrates her argument with the cases of Takeo Ozawa and Bhagat Singh Tind.
ANSWER: citizenship [or word forms; accept descriptions of being a citizen; accept Citizen and Subject; accept Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality; prompt on nationality; prompt on naturalization or word forms; prompt on whiteness or Caucasian status or word forms by asking “what other status would Tind and Ozawa have been eligible for if they were legally white?”]
[10h] “Flexible citizenship” was coined in a namesake book by this Malaysian anthropologist, who wrote Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline.
ANSWER: Aihwa Ong
[10e] Ong analyzed this ideology “as Exception.” The IMF pushed market-based reforms and free trade in the 1990s as part of the “Washington Consensus” of this economic ideology, which contrasts with an earlier “classical” form.
ANSWER: neoliberalism [or word forms; accept Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty; prompt on liberalism or word forms; reject “classical liberalism”]
<Editors, Social Science> | E. Prelims 5 - Indiana + Vanderbilt + MIT
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 11.43 | 86% | 14% | 14% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| British Columbia | Rutgers | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Brown | Stanford B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bruin | Northwestern A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Cambridge | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Chicago A | Georgetown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia A | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Columbia B | Pittsburgh | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cornell | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech A | Ohio State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Harvard | Texas | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Illinois B | Michigan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Maryland A | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Maryland B | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Minnesota | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Purdue | Penn State | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Stanford A | Chicago B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Toronto B | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | UCF | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | MHE |
| UC Berkeley B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Virginia Tech | UCLA | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 11.43 | 86% | 14% | 14% |