... This chapter focuses on the Yaqui resistance to unregulated pesticide spraying and the transportation of toxic pesticides in Mexico, resulting in devastating health effects for Yaqui women and children. Though the North American Free Trade Agreement bans some toxic pesticides in the United...

... In all the attention given to Trump's Muslim ban, the invocation of “honor killings” in two of the executive orders creating the ban was largely overlooked. This chapter examines how both rhetoric and false and misleading data were used to produce the idea that honor killings are a problem...

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... the status of being “banned in China” is often viewed as a selling point in foreign markets, there is no necessary correlation between whether a work is banned and its underlying literary quality. He discusses the relationship between state censorship and processes of self-censorship, noting that he himself...

... In 2012, at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the author was asked to leave India after he read from a banned book, Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. This chapter covers that history but uses it as an occasion to report on his fraught relationship with the celebrated writer—establishing...

... The two-state heuristic missed much ambling and vernacular motion. Kitawala moved into chiefdoms; after its banning, chiefs used medical censusing to entrap Kitawala. A range in security tastes is suggested: the agitated visions of a Kimbanguist in Ekafera; a Befale nurse, disturbed by Ekafera...

... forestry (including producers cooperatives) were undermined by new policies such as forest concessions granted to timber companies, logging bans ( vedas ), and joint venture agreements ( contratos de asociación en participación ) between villagers and timber interests. In Chihuahua, Mexican corporations...

... to which there has been a shift of emphasis from directly banning problematic works to instead creating an elaborate set of institutional incentives that encourage contemporary authors to produce works that are consonant with state objectives. censorship self-censorship institutional constraints ...