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... the mundane and fragmentary nature of the practices through which contemporary forms of critique must be built—and, increasingly, deferred. ground truthing pipelines contract work Indigeneity ...

... and children, and the pursuit of livelihoods beyond the plantations. Freedpeople’s growing mobility and refashioned work routines prompted planters and lawmakers to respond with severe legal and customary strategies of containment, including the 1834 Contract Act, which tied employment to estate residence...

... roots of the Bezos Center’s presentation of innovation as a central, uncontested social value and to explain the problematic nature of the exhibit. Relying on critical work of the social contract—in particular, work by Charles Mills, Carole Pateman, and Stacy Clifford Simplican—the chapter analyzes...

... The introduction argues for the advancement of anthropological theory through engagement with the work of Michel Serres. Particularly striking is the potentiality of porosity as a conceptual pivot to explore both Serres and ethnographic subjects. Touring Serres’s key works on time, religion...

... This chapter discusses the strategies Indian programmers use to be successful in short-term work contracts, including framing the work as a necessary, temporary step on the way to elite status and thinking of programming skills as a kind of wealth they control. They develop two sets...

... The focus in this chapter is on working-class neighborhoods, anti-Black moral panic, and identifying contractions of modernity through ultramodernity. This chapter traces the process by which subjectivities and cultural practices incorporate the contradictions of modernity—what is here referred...

... residents should do more to improve their own health. This chapter examines how childhood asthma gets cast as a citizenship issue, inspiring national debate over whether the state is the ultimate guarantor of citizens’ rights. I argue that by drawing on prevalent tropes about working-class labor...

... understood as central to tech work. Many of these women came to VR from television or film, observing that working in VR associated them with the prestige of “tech.” Unlike earlier moments in the history of both technology and entertainment, where a contraction of expertise limited the involvement of women...

... between 1888 and 1889. This chapter analyzes this tension and shows how the ex-slaves rejected the continuation of work rhythms and forms of authority inherited from the slave order and sought to create conditions in which they could live without being “subjugated.” In this sense, the end of slavery had...

... person for adult stories. In 1976 Hettie is writing a YA novel about an interracial teen when Helene has her eighth show at opening of art gallery while working at a social service agency. They meet in New York, January 1979. Helene secures commission from Norway bank, and Hettie gets contract for two YA...

... development. The chapter tracks how the Indian middle classes became scientists in service to the nation in the Nehruvian period and then how they draw on that legacy in the current moment to advance their privatized scientific projects. Viewed within this framing, short-term work contracts are stepping...

...Of Parasites and Contracts This chapter lays out a path for imagining an anthropology of the natural contract. It does so by staging a conversation between Michel Serres’s writings on parasites and symbiotic ontologies and anthropological theories of exchange and by exploring the complex...

... at the vanguard of national development. The chapter tracks how the Indian middle classes became scientists in service to the nation in the Nehruvian period and then how they draw on that legacy in the current moment to advance their privatized scientific projects. Viewed within this framing, short-term work...

... challenges such as the effectively forced migration of families to La Paz or Cochabamba and the diffculties in finding new work in times of economic contraction. The mineworkers faced more subtle challenges as well, such as discrimination on the part of their new neighbors, the psychological pressure...

... during his American career—and as a catalyst to acquire a Hollywood contract. The sketched outline of his frame is still a globally recognized logotype. This performance mode, Hitchcock playing “Hitchcock,” generated an emphasis on corporeal matters and food culture as signatures for the work in many...

... This entry examines communications technologies that function across space, time, and cultures and seeks to expand rather than contract what it means to be human through and alongside our technologies. Using the project Not the Only One as a case in point, it examines the role of augmented...

... the multiple ways that race is made meaningful in such an environment. postrace cognitive work software labor programming This chapter discusses the strategies Indian programmers use to be successful in short-term work contracts, including framing the work as a necessary, temporary step...