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Published: 01 January 1997
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382096-053
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8209-6
Book Chapter

By Yvette Christiansë
Book: Castaway
Published: 01 January 1999
DOI: 10.1215/9780822396208-046
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9620-8
Series: Stuart Hall: Selected Writings
Published: 02 April 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021223-023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2122-3
Book Chapter

By Gerald M. Sider
Published: 21 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7504-3
... suburbia GI Bill Ford floating state Prometheus ...
Book Chapter

By Stefan Helmreich
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 04 August 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2453-8
... Scripps Institution of Oceanography FLoating Instrument Platform environmental media scientific observation military funding ...
Book Chapter

By Gerald M. Sider
Published: 21 October 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375043-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7504-3
... This chapter covers suburbs and stables, the GI Bill of Rights and race, Ford and Fordism, yammering, getting high, Max Weber and Michel Foucault and their fantasies of control, and “floating” states and democracies. It invokes Prometheus and the rock chained to each other, and how that matters...
Published: 21 October 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7504-3
... and race; and impunity. race and nation culture sharecroppers and pig deconstruction impunity This chapter covers suburbs and stables, the GI Bill of Rights and race, Ford and Fordism, yammering, getting high, Max Weber and Michel Foucault and their fantasies of control, and “floating...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 04 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024538-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2453-8
... Sited at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, California, the chapter is concerned with science in the field—at shore and sea—and organizes its account one of oceanography's most storied vessels: the FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP). It is a craft that can “flip” itself...
Published: 12 May 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373209-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7320-9
... How can we think about the longstanding, diverse, irreversible, and invisible/suffocating relationship between “America” and the Pacific? This chapter proposes that the nonbiodegradable debris that floats in the North Pacific known as the “great Pacific garbage patch” is an archipelagic metaphor...
Series: Elements
Published: 19 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059011-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5901-1
...—of their work are the elements themselves. Floating, flying, and sailing in pursuit of poachers is made possible by the atmosphere and the ocean's fluid states. This chapter gathers theoretical insights from marine geographers Kimberley Peters and Philip Steinberg to situate Sea Shepherd's use of technologies...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-019
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... and ecclesiastical hierarchy, he processed through an array of triumphal arches before the assembled crowds of spectators. Over a week, the city feted the viceroy, one highlight being an allegorical masquerade including a float of the splendid mountain of silver. Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela’s description...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... 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 recounted here, based on Ramiro Molina Rivero’s contemporary ethnographic...
Published: 12 May 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7320-9
... can we think about the longstanding, diverse, irreversible, and invisible/suffocating relationship between “America” and the Pacific? This chapter proposes that the nonbiodegradable debris that floats in the North Pacific known as the “great Pacific garbage patch” is an archipelagic metaphor by 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...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
.... Over a week, the city feted the viceroy, one highlight being an allegorical masquerade including a float of the splendid mountain of silver. Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela’s description of the viceregal entry celebrates the city’s munificence and loyalty to the Crown, but also contains muted...