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By Charles T. Lee
Published: 05 February 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7483-1
... neoliberal abjection antirafficking assemblages commodity activism entrepreneur consumer ...
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By Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Published: 23 August 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5980-6
... Zumba Fitness corporate social responsibility commodity activism postracial Zumbathons ...
Published: 05 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374831-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7483-1
... into a fluid constellation of commodity activism that repositions sex workers as simultaneously commodities, entrepreneurs, and consumers. neoliberal abjection antirafficking assemblages commodity activism entrepreneur consumer ...
Book Chapter

By Petra R. Rivera-Rideau
Published: 23 August 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059806-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5980-6
... recognizes racial difference on a superficial level but posits that systemic racism is over. Zumba Fitness’s trope of love centers the brand’s focus on multicultural tolerance and commodity activism. The chapter describes postracialism and how it operates in Zumba Fitness through songs like “Spread Love...
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By Charles T. Lee
Published: 05 February 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7483-1
... to appropriate economic inclusion. It argues that these practices of calculated abjection signal lessons to transform sex worker rights movements into a fluid constellation of commodity activism that repositions sex workers as simultaneously commodities, entrepreneurs, and consumers. neoliberal abjection...
Published: 01 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060185-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6018-5
... Dreaming in Cuban (1992) and Colson Whitehead’s Zone One (2011) to show how the commodity activates apocalyptic destruction in the text and to reveal intersecting histories of hemispheric violence. A comparative analysis reveals an otherwise unexplored thematic relationship between García’s post–Cold...
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374541-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7454-1
... mechanisms through which popular pressure could contain the activities of the political elite. At the same time, it deepened Nigeria’s vulnerability to fluctuations in commodity prices. The decline in the price of oil in 1981 touched off a recurrent fiscal crisis. For a time, oil money had allowed...
Published: 11 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060239-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6023-9
... This interlude engages technologies that constitute the smart home by returning to the idea of home itself as a technology. Hometech, which increasingly sells privacy as a commodity, produces a distinction between the inside and the outside even as it automates, manages, and makes more efficient...
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By Margaret J. Wiener, Isabelle Stengers
Published: 04 April 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060710-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6071-0
... considers the value of the category magic in ethnographic description and analysis. While arguing for caution in characterizing unfamiliar practices this way, it is another matter when it comes to analyzing how various parties choose to use that term: to sell commodities; to critique their own society...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373353-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7335-3
... antineoliberal feminist organizations was rooted in the “shadow commodity chain.” This series of segmented transnational relationships—which linked Northern states, nongovernmental donors, Latin American NGOs, and grassroots social movements—conveyed calculative discourses along with much-needed funds. Unlike...
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375883-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7588-3
... This introduction sets out the key concerns of the book as a whole. It argues that the cross-cultural engagements that were produced by imperial activity initiated significant social and cultural change for indigenous and tribal societies such as Māori. It suggests that the cross-cultural...
Published: 05 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7335-3
... among antineoliberal feminist organizations was rooted in the “shadow commodity chain.” This series of segmented transnational relationships—which linked Northern states, nongovernmental donors, Latin American NGOs, and grassroots social movements—conveyed calculative discourses along with much-needed...
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By Ronald Radano, Tejumola Olaniyan
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 08 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7494-7
...—that took place between the development of electrical recording in the mid-1920s and the Great Depression of the early 1930s coincided with the first stirrings of anticolonial activism and thought; it also coincided with a wave of primitivism and exoticism among the modernist countercultures of the imperial...
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By Amitava Kumar
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7539-5
...Reading This personal essay tells the story of the discovery of reading. It uses A. K. Ramanujan’s short story “Annayya’s Anthropology” and other Indian fiction to discuss books from India and Pakistan as commodities exchanged for wheat from the U.S. under the PL 480 library program...
Published: 26 February 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7454-1
... spending cut off from domestic economic activity removed one of the last mechanisms through which popular pressure could contain the activities of the political elite. At the same time, it deepened Nigeria’s vulnerability to fluctuations in commodity prices. The decline in the price of oil in 1981 touched...
Published: 26 October 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9781478002437-018
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0243-7
... both the virtue of settler colonialism and anti-Abolitionist representations of the enslaved African. This Afro-Atlantic backdrop of Marx's ideas and activism have been overlooked for too long. Marx's labor theory of value is no more empirically demonstrable than the theories that it critiques...
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By David McDermott Hughes
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373360-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7336-0
..., Stollmeyer made oil boring. emancipation racism asphalt utopianism Trinidad Oil comes packaged in a powerful, increasingly deadly jargon. Petroleum professionals speak of “upstream” and “downstream” as segments of an uninterruptable commodity chain. In so doing, they perpetuate a myth...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-037
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... produced in the country, leading to unemployment and the breakdown of domestic trade. This resulted in a decrease in the money supply as well, since foreign commodities had to be paid for with silver. In the face of these “dire consequences” of economic liberalism, The Villager proposed protectionist...