... TLC Taiwan imagined mobility movement capital ...

.... In using TLC to think out new identities based on the capacity for social and geographic movement, this chapter argues that these viewers are accumulating an immaterial form of “movement capital”; it is through shoring up the value of such movement capital that lifestyle programming on TLC Taiwan...

..., are anchored in webs of relations that capitalism can never capitalize. social movements; worlding; Pierre Clastres; capitalist delirium ...

.... The struggle to make Sucre the unitary capital (capital plena) served the opposition as a unifying symbol and fuel for direct action. At no time was this movement more volatile than in 2007, when street violence paralyzed Sucre and nearly shut down the Constituent Assembly. The movement publicly harassed...

... 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...

... interrupting “a capitalist system.” On a national scale, they taught each other how to influence the publishing industry and feminism in a practice of accountability to address racism in feminist movements. Painful moments of crisis at the bookstores interrupted efficient capital in productive ways...

...The Remains of the Regime This chapter is a conversation with Elena Lagadinova in 2010. Lagadinova was the young female partisan fighting in Bulgaria during World War II who went on to become a genetic scientist and the president of the Committee of the Bulgarian Women’s Movement for twenty...

... disparate, historically specific sites: that while both have been judged to be failed social movements, their epistolary archives reveal unorthodoxly successful, quotidian efforts to speculate upon the meaning of freedom in a global frame; that letters function as the generic means by which black settlers...

.... Beyond the hyperprofessionalization of higher education, a new academic habitus can play a crucial role in cocreating a radical democratic habitus capable of powerfully resisting and providing alternatives to neoliberal capitalism that is destroying democracy, planetary ecology, and higher education...

... Chapter 3 advances a reading of global sex work as an inventive appropriation of liberal economic citizenship that utilizes calculated abjection of female bodies to procure a living wage in the shadows of capital. It first identifies a postindustrial formation of “antitrafficking assemblages...

... and ecological worlds went to war. The haunting specter of capital joined the fray—animating the movements of cattle, grasses with animal rhizomes, rice seeds, and flighty ducks. Amid this warfare, the fringe-toed foam frog was just one tenacious parasite, a noisy agent eating at the table of another, which...

... with globalization. This same nexus preoccupied the Marxists of Operaia, or workerist movement, who were retheorizing deskilled work as a form of labor far from democratic, structured in the interest of maximizing profits, and always on the side of capital against labor. Manzoni marks the Marxist Operaia turn...

..., often incompatible styles of living. If considered as the current metamorphosis of class struggle, these dispersed movements, these always potentially diverse forms of pretiosity, are anchored in webs of relations that capitalism can never capitalize. social movements; worlding; Pierre Clastres...

... During Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada’s first term (1993–97), his Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) government undertook a series of legal, political, and economic measures that continued to roll back the reforms introduced by the mnr during the National Revolution of 1952. While his...

... This chapter opens by addressing a blind spot in Hardt and Negri’s concept of the multitude and in Marx’s view of history and class struggle: the knot between war and production. Are revolutionary movements still part of what Foucault identified as the modern “ontology of war,” making them...

... the development of electrical recording in the mid-1920s and the Great Depression of the early 1930s coincided with the first stirrings of anticolonial activism and thought; it also coincided with a wave of primitivism and exoticism among the modernist countercultures of the imperial capitals. The essay considers...

... during the Cold War, and the swerve in the real movement of capital across nation-states and into the post–World War II world order, reticulated to American interests and governance and opening onto a new phase of restructured capitalism. The Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome ran a Jackson...

... This chapter looks at Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Toni Morrison’s Jazz , two novels that riff on the African American migration narrative, the movement of black bodies from the South to the North in the early part of the twentieth century. While this upward narrative promised...