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... of “Trotskyism.” As James writes, “deprived of Trade Unions and Press, their Soviets being merely a screen for the manipulation of Stalin’s monolithic party, the workers were helpless.” Soviet Union Bureaucracy Joseph Stalin Great Terror Trotskyism ...

... the implications of these overlapping processes, the chapter discusses the process of subjectivation mediated through relative material deprivation. ultramodernity peripheral modernity resistance dissent subjectivity ...

... and confiscation of consumer items, the development of “airport-friendly” products, and the use of the airport security checkpoint as a trope of discipline and deprivation in advertising. airport security lateral surveillance advertising consumerism Transportation Security Administration ...

... in the global economy. While breadlines once forced Romanians to spend long hours waiting for basic goods, displacement from the global economy breeds ever-intensifying forms of deprivation. Once-affordable goods and services quickly become unaffordable, slowing down displaced persons’ movement about the city...

... of the corporate co-optation of green “solutions.” The analysis focuses on the case of Grangemouth in Scotland, where the industry faces government pressure to decarbonize, and residents have started to question their town’s dependence on fossil fuels amid wide gaps between local deprivation and industry profits...

..., and sports and cultural facilities. It then shows the striking parallels between the town and water-deprived ejidos, many of whose members worked on the dam. Técnicos Ejidatarios Palmito Dam site National Irrigation Commission ...

... labor, cooking, and eating. Her life on the hacienda, which began with her “arranged” marriage to a tenant peasant farmer, was one of sustained suffering and deprivation, from which she was only partially liberated by the death of her husband and her return to her community of origin. This testimony...

.... Whatever the transgressive or subversive capacities that one might identify in these photographs, given their highly aestheticized presentation and museological placement, the presentation is deprived of any critical potential, congealing it in its own fetishistic universe in which the black male body...

... This chapter examines how the bodies of business process outsourcing (BPO) agents are coproduced with regimes of affective labor. Because agents in Bengaluru had to work at night, they suffered from acute sleep deprivation and the disruption of their circadian rhythms. The disjunctive...

... The introduction explains the various critiques of the category of the human that have been forwarded by posthumanist scholars. It observes that these trenchant critiques have also deprived theorists of a category of the human to invoke in the effort to mobilize people to respond to global...

... This chapter is a study of Nuruddin Farah’s Gifts . It examines the novel’s articulation of an alternative model of giving to that of Western humanitarian aid, which has deprived the Somali people of their autonomy and humanity because it dehumanizes them by reducing them to the passive victims...

... it entails overcoming conditions of deprivation and violence—the result of asymmetrical warfare—in order to produce photographs, exhibiting images where least expected, and disarming opposing views by unsettling entrenched assumptions about what revolutionary photography is and the ideologies...

... that Kindling and Tonguebreaker offer disability justice blueprints for health and care in an era of deprivation, in which care suggests not restoration and movement back toward the status quo but rather the cultivation of a lifeworld that centers disabled queers of color, makes room for sickness and grief...

... of neoliberalism, the intensification of the AIDS epidemic, and the onset of the crack epidemic played a major part in developments, creating an atmosphere of increased friction, deprivation, and hostility. The period when dance sounds and partygoers could interact in an open and relaxed environment had passed...

... deprived the Somali people of their autonomy and humanity because it dehumanizes them by reducing them to the passive victims of famine, civil war, and recipients of aid. The novel transforms Marcel Mauss’s theory of the gift by exploring the phenomenological dimension of giving—the opening of a world...

...-deprived ejidos, many of whose members worked on the dam. Técnicos Ejidatarios Palmito Dam site National Irrigation Commission The chapter examines the postwar and post-dam transformation of the Laguna’s water regime, characterized by a sharp, rightward sociopolitical turn in Mexico; severe...

... from a context of urban poverty. To trace the implications of these overlapping processes, the chapter discusses the process of subjectivation mediated through relative material deprivation. ultramodernity peripheral modernity resistance dissent subjectivity Despite popular perception...

... of the “socialism in one country” being built by the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union. It examines the rising levels of state terror and state repression deployed by Stalin against workers and peasants under the guise of fighting the official enemy of “Trotskyism.” As James writes, “deprived of Trade...

... recalled the community of her birth, Punku Uyu (near the town of Huarina on Lake Titicaca), as a fertile, green place of communal labor, cooking, and eating. Her life on the hacienda, which began with her “arranged” marriage to a tenant peasant farmer, was one of sustained suffering and deprivation, from...