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Series: Politics, History, and Culture
Published: 09 August 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388463-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8846-3
Published: 25 August 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385134-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8513-4
Published: 01 January 1986
DOI: 10.1215/9780822399544-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9954-4
Published: 01 January 1986
DOI: 10.1215/9780822399544-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9954-4
Series: Narrating Native Histories
Published: 11 November 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373759-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7375-9
... The afterword reflects on the accomplishments, frustrations, and disappointments of twentieth-century political activism. It also discusses the particular challenges Llamojha faces as an elderly activist. He became an activist in Latin America's “century of revolution,” when fundamental social...
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By Rachel H. Brown
Published: 24 June 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5958-5
... coloniality accumulation neoliberalism vulnerability elderly ...
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By Rachel H. Brown
Published: 24 June 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5958-5
... COVID-19 resistance solidarity elderly ...
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By Rachel H. Brown
Published: 24 June 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5958-5
... care elderly migration Jewish family social reproduction ...
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By Rachel H. Brown
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059585-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5958-5
... discourses around the vulnerability of elderly citizens under pandemic conditions, militarization, and ongoing struggles that link anticolonial liberation to workers’ rights. COVID-19 resistance solidarity elderly ...
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By Rachel H. Brown
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059585-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5958-5
... effects of this regime on a daily basis. care elderly migration Jewish family social reproduction ...
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059585-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5958-5
..., Mizrahi, and South and Southeast Asian workers. I suggest how worker and citizen narratives, Israeli laws, and private recruitment agencies comparatively gender and racialize migrant caregivers. I highlight throughout how the treatment of elderly Jewish Israelis as the paragon of vulnerability parallels...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 03 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375319-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7531-9
... This chapter relates the accounts of elderly Cuban women of street processions that occurred during religious festivals held before the 1959 Revolution, when they carried an effigy of Cuba’s patron saint, Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, a local advocation of the Virgin Mary, with them through...
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By Reiko Hillyer
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478025887-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2588-7
... The epilogue tracks the consequences of the developments in chapter 9 with a focus on the rise of people serving sentences of life without parole and the increase in elderly prisoners. Clemency declined nationwide since the 1990s, following a new logic of zero risk and the rejection...
Published: 02 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059226-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5922-6
... Chapter 5 focuses on Embodied Labs, an LA-headquartered start-up founded in 2016 that creates VR experiences for professional caregivers who work with elderly people and their families. These VR experiences are premised on the logic, critiqued in the previous chapter, that embodying another...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374558-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7455-8
... after abolition. To develop this argument, the author relied on civil and ecclesiastical registers, as well as oral testimony by the elderly residents of rural communities in the Recôncavo. post-emancipation family community orality and freedom Recôncavo sugar plantations rural and urban...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 03 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375319-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7531-9
... An elderly member of an Afro-Cuban house temple in Santiago’s barrio Los Hoyos recounts the 1931 police raid of her father’s bembé (drumming ceremony) held in honor of the Virgin. The chapter interprets the restrictions of the Machado dictatorship (1925–33), which purged Cuban streets of black...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... Tunupa is among the oldest gods of the people of the southern Andean and Qollasuyu region and is associated with the creative and destructive forces of fire and volcanoes, thunder and lightning. In the classic version of Tunupa’s story, an elderly male figure travels from the north to the south...
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By Lisa Messeri
Published: 02 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059226-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5922-6
... for professional caregivers who work with elderly people and their families. These VR experiences are premised on the logic, critiqued in the previous chapter, that embodying another will yield empathetic insight. However, this chapter asks whether an empathy machine otherwise is possible—can the fantasy of being...
Series: Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People
Published: 03 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7531-9
...Regal Streets, 1931–1936 An elderly member of an Afro-Cuban house temple in Santiago’s barrio Los Hoyos recounts the 1931 police raid of her father’s bembé (drumming ceremony) held in honor of the Virgin. The chapter interprets the restrictions of the Machado dictatorship (1925–33), which...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... story, an elderly male figure travels from the north to the south of Lake Titicaca. He is imprisoned, then cast away on a raft on the lake. As his raft drifts, it opens up the Desaguadero River, on which it then floats farther south, giving distinct features to the Andean landscape. The version...