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... Marshall Islands wave piloting Indigenous knowledge nuclear colonialism ...

... This short interstitial chapter examines the practice of Marshallese wave piloting, a tradition of ocean navigation that uses emplaced readings of sea wave diffraction patterns, mapped on “stick charts” and sensed from voyaging canoes, to travel around what Epeli Hau'ofa has called the “Sea...

... Chapter 6 foregrounds the navigation techniques of river captains and pilots, and their entanglement with the pervasive inequalities of Colombian society and the logistics industry. As in other vocations, intuitive knowledge and embodied skill are relied upon to maneuver ships and boats...

... of human bodies; elementality, or how drones are influenced by the sea and the wind; and governmentality, or how pilots aspire to a caring control over marine species with drones. Nature realism, or the drone operator's pragmatic ethos of conservation with technologies, is presented. Finally, the broad...

... in 1968, and then appeared as a pilot in March 1971 before its ultimate role as part of The NBC Mystery Movie in September of the same year. Given these different guises, as well as its reboot, syndication on local and cable television, and appearances across streaming platforms, Columbo tells...

... Settler colonial imaginaries were integral to the development of airpower in the early twentieth century. Military officials and technicians drew from these imaginaries during the Cold War as they designed and made sense of remotely piloted vehicles used in military training exercises...

... This chapter examines the colonization of the intimate labor that women do, in particular the notion of “care work” in a global perspective. Intimacy and affect become a pedagogical focus in training foreign nurses. This chapter focuses on a government-funded pilot project designed to help...

... Drones deployed to monitor endangered species often crash. These crashes teach us that using drones for conservation is a contingent practice ensnaring humans, technologies, and animals. This chapter advances a crash theory in which pilots, conservation drones, and endangered megafauna...

.... It was drafted before military actions were launched in late March 1967, and before the group had taken the name of the Army of National Liberation ( eln ). Its content was quite likely shaped by discussions among Che and his other comrades, Bolivian and foreign. General Jaime Niño de Guzmán, the pilot...

... comrades, Bolivian and foreign. General Jaime Niño de Guzmán, the pilot of the helicopter that operated in the antiguerrilla operations, said that after his capture, Che gave him a small booklet containing the declaration, which was written in the guerrilla leader’s own handwriting. A transcription...