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... agents. The young women profiled in the chapter provide an alternative view of the benefits and unintended perils of sex positivism for Black girls. The author also exposes the networks grounded in love and communality that shelter residents develop to care for and protect one another that are distinctly...

... of reproductive injustice, one that affects migrants’ relationships with children, partners, families, and life-affirming care networks. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people in migrant detention has heightened these disruptions. The unnecessary exposure of people in migrant detention to a highly...

... agents. The young women profiled in the chapter provide an alternative view of the benefits and unintended perils of sex positivism for Black girls. The author also exposes the networks grounded in love and communality that shelter residents develop to care for and protect one another that are distinctly...

.... It then discusses how migrant communities engage in mutual aid; the ways migrant networks, as horizontal sources of care and solidarity, provide community safety and emotional support; and how workers resist state surveillance and deportation. The chapter concludes by highlighting how contrasting temporal...

...Affective Wholes Commercial sex work is regulated in Dakar, and those women who are registered with the state must attend regular health checks at the state clinic. This chapter examines the history of policing, data gathering, and care practiced at the clinic and the integration...

... in turn affected the role of pensioners within familial networks. Under communism, dependable pensions positioned aging Romanians as valuable contributors of time and money to the family. Following economic reforms, the diminished value of government pensions recast retirees as economic burdens...

... The arrival in India of an internationally mobile discourse extolled “the market” as the best and most efficient allocator of resources and provider of urban services. The career of this idea in Mumbai reveals a surprising history of how the water department’s century-old system of careful...

... While they strive for independence from dominant systems, indie pornographies are in fact deeply relational. They are imbricated in networks of production and distribution, they dialogue with media and culture, and they are rooted in interpersonal relationships. A political agenda for indie porn...

... The epilogue highlights infrastructure—understood as a network of political, social, and material conditions that enable interconnectedness, coordination, and a degree of coherence and mutual trust among different social actors—as central for understanding individual and collective agency...

... If there is one system that epitomizes Haraway’s description of the informatics of domination as “scary new networks,” it is the US private health care system—and in particular the precarious position that disability occupies within a system that is defined by the mandate of calculating “costs...

... into relations and currencies of intimacy. Trans people deploy the family as a form of intimacy but strategically rework it through queer alignments and ties. Through an intertwined network of care, labor, love, joy, and affect, they consistently invest in their friendships, contest the primacy given to blood...

... Africa, Europe, and other parts of the Middle East, these couples have reached Conceive through global networks of referral, and are attracted to this IVF clinic because of its medical cosmopolitanism, or clinical care delivered across national, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural boundaries...

..., an approach that joins together and expands studies of women’s emotional, caring, and reproductive labor. An analysis of altar work highlights the pivotal work of bringing new followers into the church, carried out by networks of women who pass along intimate practices through an apprenticeship model...

... never stick to just one world, but always face a decision about what kind of ontology to inhabit. Tracing actions oriented to the care of beings and things, often across species lines, this chapter considers how Ectatomma ants enlist others in the production of common worlds, and how they escape...

... through living succulents, it conceptualizes an emergent mode of prosthetic memory: it blurs the body-technology boundary in what Rachel Lee calls chimeracological milieus, entails inhuman otherness beyond the usual human perception and subjectivity, and has potential to regenerate networks of care...

... in Asia. The construction of “an Asian genetic architecture”—differentiated by Chinese, Indian, and Malay biomedical categories—makes Singapore a center of prognosis for genomic science in Asia. The infrastructure deploys the ethnic heuristic in different registers. First, the network of ethnicity becomes...

... a backdrop of networked technologies, this chapter explores how producers balance these aims against the impetus to build brands, market content, and hustle for visibility. independent media DIY culture precarious labor reinscribing value collective ownership Live sex provides unique...

... Snyderman took over as Chancellor of Health Affairs in 1989 was a well-recognized academic medical center, a sprawling, complex, and large academic, clinical, and educational institution. But, like similar institutions with the development of managed care, it faced a challenge to its longstanding...

...Families at War Chapter 1 uses the case of the Carrera family of Chile, based principally upon their voluminous correspondence, to demonstrate how both men and women worked through extended family networks to carry out political plans. From 1810 to 1814, they were among the principal leaders...