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... of violence and oppression. The section then turns to cure’s relationship to eradication and the different kinds of comfort and violence that accompany it—the elimination of a virus, of future existence, of present-day embodiments, or in some cases of life itself. The last part of the section centers on Terri...

... In the U.S. War on Drugs in the Andes, one of the stated aims was to eliminate the production of raw material for cocaine, although in Bolivia the traditional cultivation and consumption of coca leaf was so well established that it would be impossible to eradicate the crop completely. The 1988...

... ecosystem interdependencies and from the creation of disability access and community. In tandem with this discussion is an exploration of the relationship between monocultures, eradication, and the un-choosing of disability. Additionally this section introduces gender transition, the author’s transgender...

... ecosystem interdependencies and from the creation of disability access and community. In tandem with this discussion is an exploration of the relationship between monocultures, eradication, and the un-choosing of disability. Additionally this section introduces gender transition, the author’s transgender...

... what she names as a conflation of race and racism, Reed argues that (white) queer theory often undermines the eradication of institutionalized racism and, instead, buttresses the very oppressive structures it purports to undermine through its co-optation of civil rights strategies, discourses...

... The chapter discusses how the Indian state’s efforts to bring Dalits to parity with other groups in society have yielded results that are more a continuity than a change. Academic discourse assumes that caste is birth-based and hence to be eradicated, while class is desirable as it can...

... This chapter argues that the global eradication of smallpox in the 1970s helped produce a key justification for the neoconservative U.S. war against Iraq in 2003. The war was partially justified by the claim that Iraq had the wherewithal to spread epidemic smallpox against an unvaccinated U.S...

... This section explores different ways in which cure functions, starting with how cure research prioritizes the future, often more interested in future-focused eradication than present-day access. These priorities are reflected in the missions and fund-raising strategies of many disability...

... the investigation was ostensibly an objective one, the commission’s final recommendation to eradicate coca consumption had been contemplated in advance. The commission’s methodology was loose and arbitrary, with little scientific foundation and scant field research (a mere three weeks in Bolivia), and the report...

...” policy aimed at eradicating 100 percent of the coca plantations in the Chapare. In protest, thousands of coca growers marched in the city of Chapare and engaged in confrontations with the police. During the violence, pro-coca demonstrators seized, tortured, and killed two policemen. Congress immediately...

... 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...

... the traditional cultivation and consumption of coca leaf was so well established that it would be impossible to eradicate the crop completely. The 1988 Law on Coca and Controlled Substances (Law 1008), written with United States oversight, established a limit on traditional coca production and declared all...

... coca” policy aimed at eradicating 100 percent of the coca plantations in the Chapare. In protest, thousands of coca growers marched in the city of Chapare and engaged in confrontations with the police. During the violence, pro-coca demonstrators seized, tortured, and killed two policemen. Congress...

... that coca-chewing must be abolished within twenty-five years. The basis for this attack was the report produced by the United Nations Commission of Enquiry on the Coca Leaf in 1950. While the investigation was ostensibly an objective one, the commission’s final recommendation to eradicate coca consumption...