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... that there is no single laboring body left for which a collective struggle can be waged. It has splintered across many domains, and its cares and concerns have been divided up into the sociologist’s concern for social well-being, the economist’s concern for economic well-being, and the natural scientist’s concern...

... 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...

... identity emerges from temporal, rather than spatial, migration into the global simultaneity of times as well as global and national contestation over her representation. Philippine corporate lobbyists offer the call-center industry as the solution to national economic woes and to the mass outmigration...

... concessions as well as infrastructure projects, such as building dams and roads. The critiques have focused on the high costs to the health and diversity of ecosystems and to the well-being and livelihoods of local communities vulnerable to pollution and displacement. For environmental movements throughout...

... 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...

... as anticipatory praxis” means that global health commodities like drugs, medical devices, water engineering, and care itself are only sometimes assessed in terms of improvements in human corporeal health and well-being. Increasingly the purpose of metrics is also to assess how much money any given technology...

... a decrease in the demand for goods 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...

... of the organization and its methods are in some ways modeled along paramilitary lines. Its members see themselves as being engaged in a perpetual struggle both for Camba culture and against efforts by the central government in La Paz to exert control over the region’s political, economic, and cultural interests...

... holistic spiritual and cultural connections across state borders. This chapter contrasts the EAC regional integration project's marketing strategy of free cross-border flows and the free flows of goods and people as a mechanism to enhance collective well-being. Maasai East African Community...

... of a communal Incan Golden Age, also introduces a problem in the form of an idealized Andean homogeneity that is no longer tenable. Zimmer explores the central problematic of autonomous politics, particularly when it situates its argument in the identity of particular communities, naturalizing their ‘being...

... ground and air forces with solid U.S. military and intelligence backing. The insurgents made their own miscalculations as well. They selected the lowland region around Ñancahuazú, expecting to have more time to prepare themselves without being detected and not considering carefully the real conditions...

.... The mineworkers faced more subtle challenges as well, such as discrimination on the part of their new neighbors, the psychological pressure of suddenly being without a job or income, and the fact that they no longer enjoyed the solidarity that came with living together in tight communities. Yet as these accounts...

...North Describes Rosemarie’s childhood in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Southside Chicago, an economically diverse African American community where dozens of her relatives lived and where many of the inhabitants were recent immigrants from the South. The chapter discusses Rosemarie’s...

... continuity in his lineage’s loyalty to the state. In this royal decree, the king recognized the family’s ancient Indian nobility as well as its early conversion to Spanish cultural norms (“being among the first to dress Spanish style”), and granted Ayra de Ariutu the right to display a distinctive shield...

... studies Jamaican dancehall music US-Caribbean relations Oliver Samuels exoticization With 400,000 call center agents, the Philippines has outpaced India in growth and number for voice operations. The offshore agent as a liminal figure simulates being in synch as a sonic presence with corporate...

... a person’s political, civic, and economic rights. In the United States, the predominant reasons for effective statelessness include the presence of individuals who are unable to prove their nationality, as well as the failure of their countries of origin to recognize them as citizens. Contrary to common...

...Indigeneity and Commons If the new millennium saw first the rise and consolidation of progressive governments throughout Latin America, it also saw the deactivation of large sectors of the social movements that had brought those governments into being. Out of this moment, came a series...

..., is an observant account of provincial guerrilla warfare that sheds light on material economic conditions as well as internal struggles and the strategies and tactics deployed against the royalist armies. Vargas fought with Commander Euse-bio Lira in the republiqueta (petty republic) that held out in the valley...

... accounting, the document provides an illuminating outline of the relations between the Aymara kingdoms and the Inka prior to the arrival of the Pizarros and Almagros, as well as of the political contest thereafter. The following story about the cataclysmic transition from an older time of darkness...