... Rural dispossession provoked by neoliberalism leads to increasing urban migration from the Bolivian highlands. The Cancha grows as the informal economy absorbs surplus labor from the countryside. urbanization labor neoliberalism ...

... Taking up the vexed and fraught relation between the local and the national, Cai examines in this chapter the ways in which the socialist national had to cope with and absorb local inflections and local strategies of narrative social existence. Rejecting any simple binary conflict between...

... This chapter reassesses the feminist and critical claims that, after Prozac, pills have come to play too prominent a part in the treatment of depression. The chapter looks in detail at the pharmacokinetic characteristics of antidepressants: how they are physiologically absorbed, distributed...

... of skin bleaching for video light, which affects how flesh absorbs and reflects light, the body becomes a new type of photographic surface. These expressions, which produce a blinding bright white light, invest in and eschew investments in being socially visible that dominate in their respective...

... work, farming, pop music, sports, beauty, and household management. These formats absorbed the older influence of Kantian art education that fuels European cultural nationalism as well as early communist competitive factory production within the overarching context of Cold War competition between...

... theorists suggest, it focuses on dance as a play of intransigent forms producing affective responses felt by bodies. For instance, E. O. Wilson’s biophilia hypothesis proposes that most animals have evolutionarily derived predispositions to absorb affective responses from elements of the natural world...

... federations in Qollasuyu. To local authorities, they offered gifts of gold and finely woven tunics. They gave Inka brides to Aymara lords, thereby sealing through kinship new political alliances. Local religious worship was respected while also absorbing it within the overarching Inka cult of the sun. Local...

... a contradictory, but intense political period—social movements have taken up the banner of some of the demands in newly contestatory ways, while political conservatism has also been in the streets for the first time in a generation. As well, the political process has been unable to absorb this energy...

... This chapter examines the contributions of postcolonial ecologists such as Rob Nixon, Anna Tsing, and Dipesh Chakrabarty. Those ecologists are invited to absorb the findings of earth scientists such as Michael Benton and Clive Finlayson, who examine the sources of two extinction events: the near...

... between the cultural figures of the hungry, lower-caste rural person and the overfed middle-class urbanite. This subject became known in biomedical discourses and epigenetic science as “the thin-fat Indian”: the body that absorbs prosperity into its very constitution, even as that constitution...

... companies to fortify foods with “extra” nutritional additives that could help prevent chronic disease. Packaged foods opened up new possibilities to keep families healthy, while tightening relations between the home and the corporation. This raises questions about what it means to absorb food provided...

... Helene complains about newly having to lock her door. Hettie sees this as a significant change between them. She reports conversation with Bruce Wright, an NYC judge. Helene recalls years of early rising in dark cold, now is absorbed in computer, her “new labyrinth.” Hettie’s Bedford students...

... absorbed, distributed, metabolized, and excreted. The chapter begins by tracking the way in which antidepressant medications are metabolized in human bodies—taking the gut as an important biological and political reference point. The chapter argues that the pharmacokinetics of ssris are more conceptually...

... that included contests in literature, arts, sciences, trades, factory work, farming, pop music, sports, beauty, and household management. These formats absorbed the older influence of Kantian art education that fuels European cultural nationalism as well as early communist competitive factory production within...

... time in a generation. As well, the political process has been unable to absorb this energy, with disaffection being the main result of the subsequent elections. Brazil democratization participation social movements June 2013 protests January 11, 2007, a day of violent confrontation...

... enticements to win over the regional Aymara federations in Qollasuyu. To local authorities, they offered gifts of gold and finely woven tunics. They gave Inka brides to Aymara lords, thereby sealing through kinship new political alliances. Local religious worship was respected while also absorbing it within...