... Rosa-Linda Fregoso’s impressionistic essay draws on her memories, notes, and reflections of her years of work as cultural worker and witness of the femicides that plagued Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. witnessing violence nacrotrafficking gender ...

... This chapter builds on the arguments of the previous chapter by tracing the conceptual dualism that continues to plague thinking about market and society and the pernicious effect of such dualism on understanding distributive processes and distributive politics. It traces a persistent conceptual...

... of laborers stymied French urban-planning visions. Indian families, in particular, harnessed the architectural inertia of their homes to contest and negotiate colonial encroachment, but the arrival of recruited workers from China and India, and outbreaks of the bubonic plague in 1902 and 1907, brought new...

... Divine Lynxes: When the Middle Ages ended with the bubonic plague pandemic and the first iterations of wage labor began and merchant capital began to take hold, cats as symbols of economic power and economic disinheritance did not disappear, rather they were transformed. This chapter narrates...

... the longer it was ignored. Mine wastes in South Africa epitomize and fuel the slow violence of Anthropocene predicaments that plague the planet. The chapter presents the deep geological and human history of this area, readying the reader for the rest of the book. waste governance slow violence...

... legal restrictions grated on town residents. In addition, a lack of resources plagued the administration, delaying promised financial reforms and other projects. Finally, however, the outright disrespect of many Spanish officials and troops toward Dominican residents provoked relentless tension...

... own torturers and remained silent. After the war, she was assigned an important job in the restructuring of society, that of founding and running an arts institution with the goal of shattering the cultural blockade. She was enormously successful, but plagued by periodic bouts of depression...

... Chapter 6 explores how new development projects, while filling trust coffers, may undercut and fragment the charitable obligations of the trust. As accusations of corruption plague the BPP, other smaller Parsi trusts with lands are receiving donations from Hong Kong to undertake development...

... was plagued by derogatory assumptions about Indians. Ultimately, its conclusions served the interests of the U.S.-based pharmaceutical firms and regulatory agencies that sought to control the licit production and processing of the leaf, as well as the licit commercialization and use of cocaine for medicinal...

... and witness of the femicides that plagued Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. witnessing violence nacrotrafficking gender Kelly Lytle Hernández explores the rise of the criminal justice and immigration control systems that frame the caste of outsiders. Reaching back to the forgotten origins...

... was not due to mortality caused by the mine work, but rather due to plagues and workers’ systematic flight. As adviser to the intendant of Potosí after 1793, Cañete and the leading mining industrialists proposed a major increase in the number of forced workers, which met with fierce opposition led...

...The Feline Call to Freedom<subtitle>Slavery and Revolution in an Age of Empire, 1500–1800</subtitle> Divine Lynxes: When the Middle Ages ended with the bubonic plague pandemic and the first iterations of wage labor began and merchant capital began to take hold, cats as symbols of economic...

... traders and the refusal of laborers stymied French urban-planning visions. Indian families, in particular, harnessed the architectural inertia of their homes to contest and negotiate colonial encroachment, but the arrival of recruited workers from China and India, and outbreaks of the bubonic plague...

... mineworkers (mitayos) , but justified forced labor on the grounds of Indians’ purported sloth and argued that the decrease in the number of mitayos was not due to mortality caused by the mine work, but rather due to plagues and workers’ systematic flight. As adviser to the intendant of Potosí after 1793...

... had been contemplated in advance. The commission’s methodology was loose and arbitrary, with little scientific foundation and scant field research (a mere three weeks in Bolivia), and the report was plagued by derogatory assumptions about Indians. Ultimately, its conclusions served the interests...