... land dispossession racialization of agricultural castes economic mobility ...

... NGO is imagined as a site for economic mobility. However, racialized assumptions regarding those who come from traditional agricultural occupations follow and constrain fieldworkers as they seek to negotiate their positions within the NGO. land dispossession racialization of agricultural castes...

... In chapter ten, Shankar explores questions of primitive accumulation, economic mobility, and the contradictions of aspiration in the aftermath of the death of fieldworker Manoj's father. Manoj's father was a farmer whose death reflects the tragic phenomenon of farmers' suicide in India...

... remittances economic development urban growth internal migration ethnic mobility ...

... mobile phones money non-economic uses of money monetary ecologies and repertoires ...

... city more specifically. Shankar shows tha,t in the wake of loss of agricultural land, the education NGO is imagined as a site for economic mobility. However, racialized assumptions regarding those who come from traditional agricultural occupations follow and constrain fieldworkers as they seek...

..., and several Han Chinese people newly arrived in Yanbian. Their experiences illustrate how ethnically differentiated mobility leads ethnic groups to develop different ranges, routes, and life choices under changing economic conditions in China and South Korea. remittances economic development urban...

... be acquired. Electoral politics and affirmative action help caste to remain a force. While promising its beneficiaries economic mobility, affirmative action mandates that they brandish their social inferiority to qualify for benefits. Though only a minority of Dalits practice polluting occupations, all Dalits...

... phone to inquire into the diverse uses of money, besides its role in exchange: the rich monetary ecologies and repertoires that people engage in every day. mobile phones money non-economic uses of money monetary ecologies and repertoires ...

..., economic mobility, or political renewal, this book is a historiography of a concept of beauty as an imperative discourse, one that determines what conditions are necessary to live, what forms of life are worth living, and what actions must follow to preserve, secure, or replicate such life...

... is a mobile money service that allows everyday Kenyans to send small amounts of money to one another via their mobile phones. Mobile money services like M-Pesa inspire dreams of digital payments as well as positive social and economic benefits of going cashless. This chapter situates the book in light...

... to acquire political control, economic mobility, and moral credibility. This chapter asserts that studies of infrastructure need to account not only for the lifespan of technological artifacts—construction, breakdown, and repair—but also for the complex forms of technopolitical violence that slowly emerge...

... Chapter 4 traces the attempt of Puerto Rico governor Rafael Hernández Colón to mobilize salsa’s Nuyorican meanings and global popularity as part of a national branding campaign curated for the Puerto Rico exhibit at the 1992 Universal Expo in Seville. Mobilized as a repository of Puerto Rico’s...

.... Indigenous rights, like transborder mobilization, have increased across most of the Arctic. However, in Russia, Putin's model of intense resource extraction for economic growth has positioned the Arctic as a central resource base, restricting the ability of Indigenous Peoples in the Russian Arctic...

..., and several Han Chinese people newly arrived in Yanbian. Their experiences illustrate how ethnically differentiated mobility leads ethnic groups to develop different ranges, routes, and life choices under changing economic conditions in China and South Korea. remittances economic development urban...

... was rewritten in an economic idiom, the essay explores the relation between the 1930s and 1990s versions of this history, at the same time analyzing problems in comparative conceptual historical method. Mobilizing a comparative method that is at one and the same time intranational and international...

... a change. Academic discourse assumes that caste is birth-based and hence to be eradicated, while class is desirable as it can be acquired. Electoral politics and affirmative action help caste to remain a force. While promising its beneficiaries economic mobility, affirmative action mandates...

... analog—water—as a lens to chart the political contours and affective dimensions of the city's infrastructure over the twentieth century. It documents how the material design and architectural inertia of infrastructural systems shaped different groups' capacities to acquire political control, economic...

... This chapter analyzes the place of Bollywood film Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge in the generation and circulation of notions of India and Indianness as portable in a historical and political-economic context marked by the liberalization of the Indian economy. Both addressing and representing...