... Ambulantes are not allowed to pay taxes to the municipality and have to compete for space with the puestos fijos. urban space conflict taxation policing ...

... not just operate on knowledge frequently marked by power struggles but comprehension. Comprehension allows a novel appreciation in and with bodies of what knowledge might imply and accordingly may allow the reader porously to devise better ways to inhabit the world. Jane Bennett conversation...

... Writing culture suggests allowing writing to take up the burden of theory, practicing Walter Benjamin’s idea of Denkbilden, or thought-images, and creating as well as describing and analyzing culture. field notes anthopology ethnography ...

... the doctrine of cy près allows the trust to work within the meantime, the temporality of the subjunctive, rather than allow its objects to fail. subjunctive historicity cy près ...

... In chapter two, Shankar positions the brown savior within the historical caste-colonial rise of the savarnas. Shankar shows the way that racialized assumptions regarding dominant castes as inherently nonviolent, spiritual, and tecnologically savvy allow for this class of peoples to take...

... Chapter 5 analyzes the rationale behind and the results of the colony’s policy to allow married convicts to petition for their spouses and dependents to join them in exile. They also permitted some convicts to marry in exile and still others live in heterosexual consensual unions. Commanders...

... Semester-long assignments allow students to go deeper into Indian Ocean history, and this chapter focuses on four pedagogical elements—backward design, student-driven inquiry, reflective writing, and audiences beyond the instructor—and four assignments that draw on them. Writing biographies help...

... of the relationship between work and leisure in neoliberal economies. By and large, Indian programmers do not allow work demands to intrude on leisure time; in fact, they actively resist this. The chapter posits that leisure time is so preserved because it allows programmers to develop a politics of pleasure...

... Chapter 7 examines the roots of furlough programs in the Jim Crow South. In the first half of the twentieth century, southern governors and wardens allowed the temporary release of large numbers of prisoners, and these efforts were supported by the public and the press. In a context where...

... that came from living through the COVID-19 pandemic as stay-at-home moms, remote workers, being unemployed, and as women who feel as though they are no longer allowed to do things for themselves, she describes a collective reckoning among Gen X women with how the media of their youth produced often...

... Upheavals of war can create disruption that allows a breakthrough for women's leadership. Rwanda's women have been visionary pioneers, creating stability and reconciliation as genocidal chaos cracked open the culture, allowing an unexpected elevation of their leadership. The epilogue draws out...

... Foucault’s recurrent engagement with Oedipus Rex not only allows us to reconceive his interpretation of the relationship between truth and power. It also opens up new approaches to the history of truth-telling not only in history but about history. This chapter examines his analysis of truth...

... This chapter studies the connections that allowed Cunas and Wayuu to develop a lifestyle or worldview that can be called a cosmopolitan, Greater Caribbean way of being in the world. It also emphasizes how the interactions associated with cosmopolitanism put these indigenous groups on an equal...

... This chapter introduces the handbook both as a design guide and as a way to integrate research’s personal and collective possibilities. It defines “project design” as the process of assembling project concepts and intentions within a congruent framework of inquiry. This approach allows...

... The first half of the book draws on examples from The Addams Family , The Brady Bunch , Family Matters , and other TV shows and films to explore the ways the structure of the sitcom has allowed for a capacious and yet constricted understanding of the family, one that can use queer figures...

... The structure and function of CIA funding fronts are examined, and several dozen CIA funding fronts from the 1950s and 1960s are identified. These fronts allowed the CIA to outsource research to unwitting scholars, including anthropologists, who gathered information and produced analysis...