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... In a first blow to landlords, the progressive constitution of 1938 determined that private property was not an absolute right, and that property could be expropriated by the state if it did not fulfill a productive “social function” in the collective interest. The Indigenous Congress of 1945...

... This chapter assesses landlord technologies such as biometric building access systems and tenant screening algorithms that extend racialized surveillance creep into domestic space and incite dispossession. Looking to the landlord tech industry’s growth throughout the Cold War and its subsequent...

... Built within the landlord’s Manor House in the township of Anren, the Rent Collection Courtyard ( RCC ) was part of an ongoing curatorial experiment designed to ensure that the museum itself became part of Mao’s “one big concept.” Examining the various experiments that led...

... The coda explores frictions engendered on both sides of the former Iron Curtain through practices of outsourcing landlordism. Since the 2008 foreclosure crisis, there has been a trend among US corporate landlords to use digital “proptech” platforms to facilitate scalable property management...

... social forces. But it led to important legal reforms, the most dramatic of which was the abolition of pongueaje , or servile labor by peasants on haciendas. This included the abolition of “personal services,” which they were obliged to carry out in addition to cultivating the landlord’s fields...

... of peasant class oppression at the hands of an evil landlord through figurative sculptures, Cai’s reworking moved it out of a representational mode and into the realm of conceptual art. Cai’s reworking focused on form, leading to a more ethereal and fluid appreciation of life’s cyclical flow...

..., beginning in the late nineteenth century and lasting beyond the Chaco War (1932–35). The leaders, such as Santos Marka Tola, who signed the petition that follows in 1923, were accused of organizing subversion and revolt, and were subject to harassment by the landlord elite and their political allies...

... oppression at the hands of an evil landlord through figurative sculptures, Cai’s reworking moved it out of a representational mode and into the realm of conceptual art. Cai’s reworking focused on form, leading to a more ethereal and fluid appreciation of life’s cyclical flow. It is in relation...

... their landlord's fear of being cursed to gain additional mobility or via the consideration of communal authority granted to women in colonial Guatemala due to their knowledge of the human body and healing arts, the chapter analyzes and articulates a nuanced understanding of global gender history. pedagogy...

..., and landlords. A chapter overview traces the book's narrative through battles over Indigenous schooling to the rise of Warisata, the political siege of Indigenal education by the oligarchic state, the escalation of rural unrest and peasant forms of popular education, the imperial intervention of American...

..., despite the absence of schools in his community, and how literacy became his most important political tool. The chapter describes the abusive practices of local hacendados, or landlords, including the illegal seizures of community livestock and land theft. This chapter reveals the terrible suffering...

... Hispanic traders, landlords, and officials in the capital, indigenous communities that ruled production and political life in the Western Highlands, and mixed (ladino) growers who found earnings in cochineal after independence. After experimenting with liberalism in the 1830s, a fragile integration set...

... This chapter considers Llamojha’s efforts to defend his indigenous peasant community against the abuses of local landlords during the 1950s. He also traveled frequently to nearby communities to assist in their struggles for land, as conflicts between indigenous peasants and hacendados were...

... Despite the Bolivian state’s weak presence and the ongoing resistance of local indigenous groups, frontier settlement pushed deeper into Guaraní territory in southeastern Bolivia during the nineteenth century. After repeated confrontations with ranchers and landlords and the failure...

... the external battle fought on the front lines between Bolivians and Paraguayans and even more so the internal battle between a repressive government, indigenous communities subject to landlord violence and forced military recruitment, and the persecuted working class and political left with which he identified...

... on the estate but also resisted the haciendas’ encroachment on their communities. The testimony that follows reveals the gender and power relations in the life of Colque’s family, community, and hacienda. In a first blow to landlords, the progressive constitution of 1938 determined that private property...