...Livelihood and Control of Resources ...

... Livelihoods ...

... This chapter reviews the way that new state programs of distribution intersect with existing processes and practices of distribution. There is a vast and rich regional literature on the multiple livelihood practices that are utilized by low-income people across the region, and on the social...

... livelihood struggle racial-spatial fix biopolitics conjunctures remains ...

... In pursuit of a livelihood and in a defensive response to the anti-Semitism of the day, Freud's early followers organized themselves around ideas, ritual practices, and membership requirements much like those of a priesthood. Sigmund Freud psychoanalysis fetishism ambivalence...

... for a racial-spatial fix, also through biopolitical means, produces new geographies of struggle, including on the terrain of biopolitics; this prompts a particular form of Black, Marxist, and feminist critique. A summary of the chapters' arguments completes the introduction. livelihood struggle racial...

... the author’s understanding of the “political” as emanating from the domestic sphere, even in such small acts of defiance as the building of homes and livelihoods. The chapter also argues that Marxist humanism, while essential to the book’s central argument, cannot by itself articulate the forms of struggle...

... the right to the city. It then engages AbdouMaliq Simone’s theorization of “black urbanism,” which disrupts imperial denouncements of Blackness to posit alternative, always, and already livelihood strategies, mobilities, and meaning-making practices to offer a vital contribution to the Black Geographic...

... In 1982, the countryside of northern Potosí was hit by a devastating drought. Many indigenous peasants were forced to leave their arid fields and communities and migrate in search of new livelihoods. The song below—written by Luis Rico in the rhythmic tinku style of the traditional music...

... and tin ore. This history shows how livelihood practices were always already racialized, such that the recent movement of ayllu members into the mines could signify a racial transgression as much as an economic articulation. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the relationship between mining...

... by people exposing their vulnerability to failing infrastructural conditions and police power; plural and performative bodily resistance shows how bodies are being acted on by policies that are decimating livelihoods. In demonstrating this precarity, these bodies also resist these powers and enact a form...

... and children, and the pursuit of livelihoods beyond the plantations. Freedpeople’s growing mobility and refashioned work routines prompted planters and lawmakers to respond with severe legal and customary strategies of containment, including the 1834 Contract Act, which tied employment to estate residence...

... their integration into existing neighborhoods and kin groups. Comorian-Malagasy marriages gave rise not only to new livelihood possibilities for migrants, but also to a generation henceforth known as zanatany. By the 1960s, this generation developed new expressive and leisure forms rooted in the street—a zanatany...

... entails the displacement and resettlement of thousands of people belonging to historically marginalized groups who stand to lose access to the agricultural land that supports their livelihoods. This raises key questions about rural property rights regimes and the new ways in which local farming households...