... This essays grapples with the Caribbean basin as a multicultural and cosmopolitan geo-political entity. Locating the Caribbean within and against discourses of European Enlightenment modernity, the essay looks to put forth a cosmo-political ethics of reading that troubles contemporary...

... slavery palenques kinship rain forest river basins ...

... river basins (settlement patterns, landownership, kinship ties, and transport). These contexts for social interaction are further channeled through the “logic of the river.” This notion frames the flow of life in the Pacific lowlands and the specific forms of spatial mobility organized around river...

... examples of Vologda’s once rich ensemble of wooden houses. The Savior-Prilutsky Monastery on the Vologda River is an example of contemporary restoration and church revival. To the northeast along the Sukhona River Basin are numerous towns and villages that comprise one of the densest concentrations...

... inhabitants, and considers local processes of mobilization that led from the building of palenques along river basins to the constitution of community councils. In particular it explores the role that leadership and previous organizational experience play in these processes as important resources...

... of modern mining that branded their practices as more socially and environmentally responsible than those of earlier operations. Meanwhile, critics of the Yanacocha Mining Company argued that mining operations (typically located at the headwaters of the river basin) reduce the quantity and quality of water...

... The final chapter focuses on the basin of the Northern Dvina River, which originates from a confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers at Veliky Ustiug. One of the most important sites is the small town of Solvychegodsk, once the center of commercial operations for the Stroganov dynasty. After...

... This chapter examines the ways in which the aquatic space is reflected in a new political context. In particular it shows how this space has been mobilized in the formation of community councils along river basins. The river remains a key resource, both materially and symbolically, as it forms...

... the genocidal structures of settler colonialism directed at Gabrielino/Tongva, the traditional caretakers of the Los Angeles basin and the Southern Channel Islands. The chapter places Khmer and Tongva struggles side by side to examine the workings of settler carceral power. Khmer refugees youth...

... The chapter recounts fieldwork at the Hinsdale Wave Laboratory at Oregon State University, home of the world's largest tsunami simulation basin. It is concerned with what wave science looks like in the lab as scientists make scaled-down replicas of real-world waves. Wave tanks, using water...

... plantations worked by enslaved laborers onto lands taken from native peoples and, in Texas, from Mexico. Amid wars after 1808, new industries rose in the Northeast, depending on southern cotton while competing with British industries. Meanwhile, farmers pushed across the Mississippi basin, raising staples...

.... The alternative proposal was a connection with the Atlantic, through the River Plate and Amazon River basins, which would unite the eastern and western parts of the country. This foundational text later resurfaced as a reference for lowland groups seeking regional autonomy, especially the Camba Nation movement...

... of the Yanacocha Mining Company argued that mining operations (typically located at the headwaters of the river basin) reduce the quantity and quality of water available to communities downstream. The chapter focuses on a participatory water monitoring program to show how various actors used the language and tools...

... and, in Texas, from Mexico. Amid wars after 1808, new industries rose in the Northeast, depending on southern cotton while competing with British industries. Meanwhile, farmers pushed across the Mississippi basin, raising staples to feed northeastern cities, southern plantations, and European peoples. New...

... the Mississippi basin, raising staples to feed northeastern cities, southern plantations, and European peoples. New dynamism came with rising contradictions; expansions of slavery challenged republican ideals and disrupted sectional political balances. War with Mexico in the 1840s deepened conflicts, culminating...

... the River Plate and Amazon River basins, which would unite the eastern and western parts of the country. This foundational text later resurfaced as a reference for lowland groups seeking regional autonomy, especially the Camba Nation movement from Santa Cruz in 2001 (see part 11). In the late...