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...Intractable Dilemmas ...

... are privileged because they played key roles in the island’s history and most convicts came from Pernambuco and other northeastern provinces. Key moments in the histories of categories of the intractable poor are highlighted to illustrate their interconnection and the phenomena of category drift. This grounds...

... on the basis of civil condition, much less color, made segregation impracticable. But a Brazilian preference for integration is visible not only in state institutions that inducted the intractable poor, but in the elite’s ideology of whitening through race mixture and subsidized European immigration. Brazilian...

... The introduction outlines seven themes that are treated in the book. One important theme is that the social categories that constitute the “intractable poor” (convicts, slaves, free Africans, Indians in government-organized villages, and enlisted soldiers and sailors) are interconnected...

... punishable by death, for homosexuals to even be intimate in the privacy of their bedrooms. The struggle for a universal human rights standard for LGBT people is complicated by seemingly intractable arguments based in cultural relativism and religious freedom. The effects of this disparity in rights...

... Chapter 5 explores the intractable contradictions embedded in the vision of justice underpinning the UN-sponsored global counter–human trafficking project, contrasting the official visions of justice endorsed by the Japanese government with those of grassroots NGO caseworkers in Japan who...

... The political project to transform Mumbai into an investment-friendly world-class city used market mechanisms to reconfigure the city’s built spaces and upgrade its infrastructures. “The market” presented a utopian solution to long-standing and intractable political struggles over land—struggles...

... persists. The chapter develops the concept of residual governance more fully, outlining dynamics that obtain throughout the industrialized world. In South Africa, I argue that its adoption fortified racial inequality even after the end of apartheid, creating a wicked problem that became more intractable...

... for the integration of convicts of different colors and conditions in state institutions that inducted the intractable poor. Convicts had ready access to some services that most mainland free men did not have, such as trained physicians, resident priests, public school, and minimal rations. On the other side, however...

... This chapter examines the sequencing and depth of reforms intended to abolish flogging, capital punishment, and slavery in relation to different categories of the intractable poor in Brazil and abroad. It delves deeper into the national and international context to highlight how these three...

... explores the erasure of these women and female animals in a delirious biotechnological regime that promises to revamp the national economy and to cure intractable diseases in South Korea and normalizes the bioethics that supplements the extraction of surplus from human and nonhuman lives on a planetary...

... epistemology inaugurate particular feelings of knowing music. Music scholarship exists in relation to an intractable problem: most people feel that they already know music very well. Against such feelings of intimacy, what do disciplinary practices of structural listening and positivist analysis have to offer...

... it a crime, sometimes punishable by death, for homosexuals to even be intimate in the privacy of their bedrooms. The struggle for a universal human rights standard for LGBT people is complicated by seemingly intractable arguments based in cultural relativism and religious freedom. The effects...

... orientations and their connection to feelings of mastery, the provisional, and collectivity. This chapter examines how settler colonialism and Indigenous epistemology inaugurate particular feelings of knowing music. Music scholarship exists in relation to an intractable problem: most people feel...

... for egg donation in Dr. Woo Suk Hwang’s reproductive and regenerative research in South Korea. It critically explores the erasure of these women and female animals in a delirious biotechnological regime that promises to revamp the national economy and to cure intractable diseases in South Korea...