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Published: 01 January 1996
DOI: 10.1215/9780822399254-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9925-4
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... or utilitarian concerns. However, the environmental mitigation strategies of the mining company rest on a logic of equivalence that makes the consequences of mining activity seem commensurable with the company’s environmental management plans. Equivalences shift the focus of discussion toward technical solutions...
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Published: 01 January 1992
DOI: 10.1215/9780822378419-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7841-9
Book Chapter

By Paul Kockelman
... equivalence commensuration translation portability parasite ...
Book Chapter

By Fabiana Li
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... neoliberalism mining industry equivalence mining conflicts political ecology ...
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374596-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7459-6
... This chapter theorizes a variety of tightly coupled frames of equivalence—or modes of transformation—whereby two entities (which might include qualia, events, individuals, processes, etc.) that are otherwise differentially positioned may be connected by a kind of path, or “third.” It reviews...
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375869-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
..., and the anthropology of mining introduces theoretical tools that will be used to examine how mining expansion brought water, toxic chemicals, agentive mountains, and other actors into the sphere of politics. The concept of equivalence serves to explore how scientific and nonscientific forms of knowledge make pollution...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375074-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7507-4
... This chapter revisits the cosmology of indigenous numeracy, drawing on both Mayan and Quechua counting to argue that they engage practices of rectification that support, even as they are not exactly equivalent to, the labors of number in human rights accountancy. The chapter contemplates...
Published: 14 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375173-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7517-3
... After surveying recent innovations in payment technologies, from Square to bitcoin, this chapter poses the question, how does our understanding of money shift if we focus on the act of payment instead of the means of exchange? Exchange is about drawing equivalences. Payment is about...
Book Chapter

By Fabiana Li
Published: 09 March 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7586-9
... and landscapes through relations that encompassed, but were not reducible to, economic or utilitarian concerns. However, the environmental mitigation strategies of the mining company rest on a logic of equivalence that makes the consequences of mining activity seem commensurable with the company’s environmental...
Series: The C. L. R. James Archives
Published: 21 July 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373346-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7334-6
... International internationally, which now took place. The development of a disastrous and sectarian new theory of “social fascism,” which saw social democracy as equivalent to fascism, accompanied a new catastrophist political perspective of “class against class,” which declared world revolution the order...
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374596-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7459-6
... for people, objects, and activities to change from being equivalent (via the local system of replacement) to being commensurate (via the money-making opportunities initiated by ecotourism). And it tracks how local ontologies, and the values embedded therein, enable and constrain the recoding of such values...
Published: 12 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375074-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7507-4
... by nonindigenous people, through participating in the complex accounting procedures of direct sales. It sets up both negative and positive valences of number and suggests that numbers traverse and transect all terrains of life. They offer powerful tools of generalization and equivalence, but they are also deployed...
Book Chapter

By Diane M. Nelson
Published: 12 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7507-4
... Ríos Montt This chapter revisits the cosmology of indigenous numeracy, drawing on both Mayan and Quechua counting to argue that they engage practices of rectification that support, even as they are not exactly equivalent to, the labors of number in human rights accountancy. The chapter...
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373391-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7339-1
... This chapter works dialectically to put into crisis the central terms of postsovereignty: subject , life , living , norm , value , equivalence . Sifting through the work of Foucault, Esposito, Derrida, Levi Bryant, and Martin Hägglund in search of a nonexclusionary, nonimmunitarian who...
Published: 05 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373353-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7335-3
... of a feminist pueblo, or people, an articulation that occurred in the context of the new identities and political articulations that emerged in Argentina since the crisis of 2001. The concept of feminist pueblo goes beyond the category of “women,” referring, rather, to a chain of equivalences, represented most...
Published: 12 July 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059615-020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5961-5
... Andrea L. Acosta’s contribution, “Recoding the Bot: ARMY and Digital Transgression,” reflects on the equivalencies that are often made between the online “bot” and ARMY, usually to discredit BTS’s popularity as the result of mechanistic, horde behavior. Parsing the deeply racialized figure...
Published: 12 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375197-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7519-7
...” (human and nonhuman) are empowered to decide autonomously. This impossible ideal is reached when the machinery of war becomes so instantaneously self-organizing that the military hierarchy becomes the functional equivalent of a purely horizontal organization. Networked information becomes “pointy...
Published: 21 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372912-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7291-2
... women’s initial interactions with Namaste inform their perception that Namaste is more or less equivalent to the many other microfinance institutions (MFIs) that target women, which in turn shapes their expectations of the NGO and their participation. Women see Namaste as their participation as a “cost...
Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Published: 01 January 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822376194-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7619-4
... their disparate cultural meanings, these cross-dressing practices were legal equivalents, unhampered by government interference in a heterogeneous public sphere. This virtual legal vacuum was short-lived, however, and as the gold rush years came to a close, San Francisco’s government passed a local law...