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... reparations numbers and colonialism indigenous counting rectification insurance human value as monetary sum postwar transitional justice ...

... 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...

... 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...

... a Canadian company inaugurated an open-pit gold mine in the indigenous province of San Marcos. In response, when local residents held a consulta , or referendum, in which 98 percent rejected the mine, the province became the epicenter of what is now a national movement to make (mainly) indigenous people...

... (mainly) indigenous people count—as in “matter”—through the technique of counting: adding them up. It has become one of the most important social movements of the postwar period. life gold mining resource extraction antimining activism referenda pollution health defense of territory...

.../colonial settler-state perpetuates relationships of financial and intellectual dependency. This is one way global health “aspirations toward a contemporary global sovereign” dovetail with long-standing colonial histories to ensure the perpetuation of colonial dependencies in indigenous communities. Yet...

... in indigenous communities. Yet metrics can also be mobilized by indigenous communities themselves. Even as they dispute the purported universality of health metrics, the directors of Yup’ik behavioral health search for creative ways to demonstrate evidence of efficacy. They are cognizant of the ways health...

... This chapter uses queer fractals as a mode of narrating the past to provide historical context for the book. It represents the history of Jamaica from the arrival of the Spanish in 1494 to the end of the twentieth century. Given the multiplicity of what could count as queer and Jamaica...

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..., this text relies on the itineraries of four Indigenous people, one woman and three men, all interned during the 1920s. Far from considering them as a simple succession of cases, the purpose of this chapter is to identify the common thread that runs through these trajectories: all of them collapse...

... in the games come into focus as key points of negotiation with the past. Colonial power dynamics emerge not only between Japan and Asia or Japan and the West but also between Japan and its own Indigenous populations. Japanese video games decolonial reading colonialism Asia West Indigenous...

... pulled in thousands of indigenous people across the highlands over the course of almost a decade. They had placed their faith in a man who promised them half a million quetzals. Actually an elaborate Ponzi (or pyramid) scheme, he bankrupted families across a wide swathe. Examining Mayan social networks...

... in thousands of indigenous people across the highlands over the course of almost a decade. They had placed their faith in a man who promised them half a million quetzals. Actually an elaborate Ponzi (or pyramid) scheme, he bankrupted families across a wide swathe. Examining Mayan social networks and financial...

... of resistance in that these work against European norms of transparency, interrupt the gaze of Western thought and governance, and count as a refusal to be accepted solely on the terms of the colonizer. Theorizing by way of the intimate, this chapter seeks to explore what thinness yields in political...