... life itself affect matter neo-Darwinism ethnographic interventions ...

... amplify the otherwise muted registers in which these practitioners articulate their affective entanglements with molecular life. life itself affect matter neo-Darwinism ethnographic interventions ...

... The introduction frames the book’s main argument: that as ideas shift about what sex is, so do the interventions required to change it and the logic of medical practices intended to do so. The introduction outlines the book’s ethnographic and conceptual support of that argument and details how...

... The book’s conclusion situates audio media in the context of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (the NTER), colloquially termed “the Intervention”). It foregrounds the politicized and contested character of multiple domains of Indigenous Australian life. The chapter’s ethnographic...

...Neocolonial Saviorism Part 2 foregrounds ethnographic examples that locate the analysis at the interface of neocolonial race, caste, and gendered relations as they influence Sahaayaka's praxis. Shankar characterizes the forms of racialized difference he analyzes in each chapter of part 2...

... opposed the everyday practices of resilience. intellectual intervention audience resistance resilience Palestine For Federico Neiburg the involvement was direct with the people he was working with in Haiti, as his assistance was requested to help solve conflicts in the urban area where he...

... novelty and unique framework of inquiry. Because these concepts also connect to key literatures, the concept combo showcases the exciting, multidimensional intervention a project can make to those conversations. Holding concepts and literatures in productive tension sets the groundwork for developing...

.... Through examining Carolina Caycedo’s video documentary of a perreo dancing marathon in Rincón, Puerto Rico, and ethnographic data from a Latina/o queer dance club in Phoenix, Arizona, Rivera-Servera argues that the black aesthetics of reggaetón enabled queer dance practices that exceeded...

... This chapter examines two elements that are central to Díaz’s interventions into contemporary Latino/a cultural politics. The first is Diaz’s critical and assertive engagement with Latinidad and how this position impacts his work as well as his political involvements and activism. The second...

... The demand for quantifiably measurable data poses significant challenges for global health initiatives that are not centered on clinical activities or the distribution of tangible resources.  Drawing from ethnographic research with Konbit Sante, an American medical aid organization intervening...

... of the future.” It argues for the relevance of the ethnographic method for investigating contemporary practices that transform cultural notions of the anthropos, including technological interventions into ways of being human in the twenty-first century. Included is a discussion of fieldwork and informants...

.... The latter are illustrated by focusing on two fundamental processes of expulsion and extraction: patriarchy and racial capitalism. Italy housing policy fascism Catholic Church family Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Italian city of Turin, the chapter is an ethnography...

..., people are deeply skeptical about local governments and do not hesitate to violate rules in seeking self-interest; on the other hand, people see interventions from higher levels of the state, especially the center, as the ultimate solution to their problems. The chapter seeks to examine such a structural...

... individuals on the other. As contraceptives they are central to interventions on the population and through the unfurling of new forms of administration which produce innumerable consumer-subject(ivitie)s, they are also involved in individualizing modes of biopolitics, concerned with the performance...

... randomized controlled trial fidelity monitoring The demand for quantifiably measurable data poses significant challenges for global health initiatives that are not centered on clinical activities or the distribution of tangible resources.  Drawing from ethnographic research with Konbit Sante...

... and the United States, this essay follows the politics projected onto music. The ways people use music to stake political claims can reveal the contours of contexts that make certain interventions possible, on the one hand, and needed, on the other. In the case examined here, routes of empire sent Houston from...

... intervention audience resistance resilience Palestine Kelly Gillespie analyzes the conditions under which her testimony was requested at a commission investigating police brutality in the township of Khayelitsha in South Africa. While she was expected to confirm the commonsense idea according...

...Activist Aesthetics This chapter examines two elements that are central to Díaz’s interventions into contemporary Latino/a cultural politics. The first is Diaz’s critical and assertive engagement with Latinidad and how this position impacts his work as well as his political involvements...

... are deeply skeptical about local governments and do not hesitate to violate rules in seeking self-interest; on the other hand, people see interventions from higher levels of the state, especially the center, as the ultimate solution to their problems. The chapter seeks to examine such a structural feature...