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... Chapter 5 focuses on activist practices of domiciliation and home-making that provided spaces of rest, return, and belonging. It describes how temporary activist structures called basekemp (organizational headquarters), posko (command posts), and kost (rented rooms) function as collective spaces...

... Activists and artists identified the machine in its literal and metaphorical terms as a critical (art)ifact. Computers, drones, and databases institute an art of the state, an infrastructural assemblage that structures the bounds of the sensible and governs the production of knowledge...

... This chapter examines the work of artists and activists–Gil Cuadros, Jaime Cortez, Adela Vázquez, and Rafael Campo–whose work addresses the ongoing prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Latinx communities. Their work furthermore represents three decades of Latinx HIV/AIDS art: Cuadros's 1994 mixed-genre...

... the structural racism of the media and justice system. De-killing involves activist mothers generating discourse in the media and acting bravely during police raids to denaturalize narratives that criminalize Black youth and justify police killings. The Black mothers’ management of suffering is a tool to refuse...

... The Black liberation struggle was not the only identity-based movement transforming the toy industry in the 1970s, as a revitalized women’s movement began challenging manufacturers’ traditional representations of gender, race, work, and family structure. Chapters of the National Organization...

... of structural inequality foregrounded by women’s groups in Asia, and it considers how and why activists in Asia challenged and participated in these efforts. violence against women governance feminism grassroots activism in Asia global movements sex trafficking ...

... This chapter returns to Spivak’s question: Can the subaltern speak? It brings together the three concepts of subalternity, intellectuals and common sense, arguing that together they provide a flexible yet structured approach to the problem of the relationship between the experience of inequality...

... The introduction theorizes Junot Díaz’s decolonial imagination, arguing that Díaz employs the creative faculty of the imagination to envision a radically different world, a world not structured through dominance but through solidarity. The introduction gives a biographical account of Díaz’s...

... This chapter focuses on refugee agency to explore how refugees find and create spaces for action, collaborate with activists to elude and challenge structures of control, and articulate an alternative politics of identity and self-determination beyond their identity as exemplars of “bare life...

... The epilogue considers what the political, corporate, and activist responses to the coronavirus pandemic reveal about the innovation/reproduction binary. Corporations are looking to capitalize on this moment. For example, the company CareRev is positioning its digital platform—which uses an Uber...

... Black men and to challenge the structural racism of the media and justice system. De-killing involves activist mothers generating discourse in the media and acting bravely during police raids to denaturalize narratives that criminalize Black youth and justify police killings. The Black mothers...

... not by a particular quality of mind, but by their location within a society’s institutions and practices of knowledge production. As such, they are always embedded within the power structures of their society. To help the reader grasp how radically Gramsci departs from conventional definitions, Gramsci’s...

...” and violently disavowed as such. These activists’ mode of protest is about exposing the embodied losses—of bodies, communities, and possibilities—that haunt the common intelligibility of memorable life. To think vulnerability together with affirmation would prompt us to trouble the calculative reasoning...

... structures that impose a binary division between localized change and global revolution and between forms of identity based on racial or sexual difference and class-based identities. There is a danger in contemporary left theory of abandoning a close understanding of the conditions that lead people to demand...

... reinforce rather than free us from murderous structures, processes, and grammars. This is not least because closure is closely tied to (social) scientific assumptions about historical transformation that fail to reckon with the implications of narrating change over time in ways that, as Michel-Rolph...

...Activist Aesthetics This chapter examines two elements that are central to Díaz’s interventions into contemporary Latino/a cultural politics. The first is Diaz’s critical and assertive engagement with Latinidad and how this position impacts his work as well as his political involvements...

... In “Break the Structure: BTS ARMY Digital Activism and State Surveillance in Indonesia’s Omnibus Law Protest,” Karlina Octaviany grapples with how Indonesian ARMY’s social media practices created a space to protest a controversial Omnibus Law in 2020 that proposed the removal of labor...

... be situated in the dominant structures of global governance that have rendered their driving logics the thinkable default option, and their legitimacy the dominant common sense for diverse groups, from feminist lawyers to military strategists. This analysis comes together in reading the Al Hassan case...

... misunderstandings; distortions introduced by some kinds of outside “help”; false trails towards empowerment; cynical manipulations of new discourses towards neo-liberal ends. The goal was to put up warnings signs, not to discourage the urgent impetus to create structures in which international feminism can struggle...