... As Annemarie Mol explains in this introduction, rather than trying to hold on to solid concepts, social scientists would do well to fluidly attune their words to the worlds most relevant to their writing. This may mean using peculiar words or non-English words, difficult to translate. Such words...

... be reduced to the penis as such. But neither is it the bodiless organ so dear to a certain western psychoanalytical tradition. This chapter discusses the phallus as that which has the peculiarity of manifesting itself as turgidity, as thrust or eruption, and as intrusion. There can be no speaking about...

... This chapter examines how the lived experiences of Korean Chinese labor migrants from Yanbian, China, are structured by the peculiar rhythm and temporality imposed by the visa regulations of the South Korean government. The regulations limit stays in South Korea, requiring repetitive migration...

... What is freedom, and who decides? In Africa’s long era of military rule, a peculiar idea of freedom emerged from the barracks. Soldiers took a maxim from their training—that discipline is a path to freedom—and made it into a political philosophy. What happened to this belief when it was scaled...

... The debate around labor power, and particularly regarding its status as the “most peculiar” of commodities, has been widely revisited in contemporary Marxist thought and critical theory. This concept, which has often resurfaced in works by Negri, Spivak, Virno, and numerous other contemporary...

... of “the Law” in its myriad iterations, the chapter queries whether a man can be “womanish” due to his matrilineage having peculiar interactions with “legal” modes. A case study stages this argument: the protagonist of Octavia E. Butler's short story “Bloodchild” is a boy impregnated by a female alien...

... of that peculiar and highly racialized history that a new kind of social protection has emerged. It concludes by reviewing the question of future “techniques of the social” in the region, including the question of biometric identification. welfare the social colonialism southern Africa biometrics ...

... The introduction examines the peculiar history shared by critique and the sovereign function, two phenomena bound by their common root in crisis. Tapping into that same history, the introduction advances a political thought intended to reinvigorate the nexus of crisis and critique by inserting...

... Hormonal menstrual suppression, as a chemical means of choosing nature, is a peculiar kind of purification, situated within a Bahian esthetic preference for artificiality. The conclusion engages with anthropological debates on the tension between biological contingency and technological...