Reinstallment

Since the reinstallment of democracy with the constitution of 1988 we have lived through three different phases of democracy," he says.

And as that month sat poised uneasily between the widely dreaded reelection of Vladimir Putin in March and his reinstallment as Supreme Leader--sorry, Prime Minister--in May, I was inclined to see everything on the stages of this urbane, muscular capital city through the lens of a divisive and complicated post-post-Soviet moment in Russian culture and politics.

Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan have a great deal of territory to cover--travel writing since the Second World War--in Tourists with Typewriters: (33) The authors, lamenting the fact that "to some extent" travel writing "remains a refuge for complacent, even nostalgically retrograde, middle-class values," propose a decidedly political thesis: "that travel writing frequently provides an effective alibi for the perpetuation or reinstallment of ethnographically superior attitudes to 'other' cultures, peoples, and places" (viii).

The USA is the most blatant example, with the reinstallment of the Global Gag Rule.

Talking with the Special Forces at FADH headquarters, we learn that in Port-au-Prince Cedras confederates chucked two grenades into the midst of a demonstration celebrating the reinstallment of the city's mayor, Evans Paul, a charismatic hero who had gone underground, rather than into exile, after the 1991 coup.