... focuses on the communities of Masafer Yatta and their strategy of building active solidarities with “bodies that count” (Israeli and Euro-American solidarity activists) in an attempt to produce connection and countervisibility in the face of the violent logics of isolation and colonial erasure. Through...

... This chapter explores the relationships between political practices and evidence making in maternal health in Nigeria’s efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Many actors become invested in the exercises of counting maternal outcomes and making decisions about care that will impact...

... by the fact that only knowledge produced within a scientific discourse is counted as valid. Global health metrics, implemented through humanitarian means, produce valuable information and solutions. But when they are assumed to be more valuable than the knowledge that people have about their own lives...

...When You Count You Begin with 1, 2, 3 This chapter engages the ground zero of genocide as well as zero as a source of enormous pride for postgenocide Mayan revitalization because their ancestors “discovered” it long before the Europeans. This matters because we all live in a world where...