... This chapter builds on the previous chapter by constructing a typology of the full variety of improvisational approaches followed by the Grateful Dead, as well as tracing the development of their practice over the late 1960s and early 1970s. improvisation rock music Grateful Dead...

... A Cuban physiologist who taught for two years in the Ethiopian outback is the subject of chapter 9. Her short story, reprinted here, recounts her personal experience teaching in a language she didn’t know well and in a culture about which she had no previous knowledge. Muslims Christians...

... The chapter addresses how to work with the micropolitics the previous chapter ended on. How to work from the interstices and, from there, how to get beyond the binaries of home(lessness)? How to work for a liberatory politics of home? A praxis of deinstitution (through striking), reinstitution...

... “Unlearning: Intoxicated Method” attends more directly to cultures of sanctioned education and builds upon agitation by considering the ways method or pedagogy must respond to the political urgencies laid out in the previous chapters. It articulates notions of “undergrowth” in and around...

... The conclusion brings together the various argumentative registers of the previous chapters while also foregrounding the more constructive and forward-looking aspects of the book’s intervention. In this sense, it highlights the extent to which reworking operative understandings of the history...

... Chapter 7 concludes the book by placing the issues of geontopower explored in the chapters into the broader problematic that the author has discussed in her previous writing—namely the periodization and spatialization of late liberalism and the tactics of time, tense, and event that late...

... In this chapter, Claudius Fergus examines how “more emphatically than any previous work, The Black Jacobins reconfigured the historiography of enslaved Africans as insensitive, unintelligent, and subservient chattels with a narrative showcasing only their humanity, military prowess...

... This chapter offers a brief reflection on the overall problem of colonial-secularist method and theory in the study of religion discussed in previous chapters. In conversation with Tomoko Masuzawa, it discusses the liberal illusion of progress that presupposes a complete severance of the present...

... Structured around Anzaldúa’s 1992 visit to an exhibit of Mesoamerican culture and art, this chapter builds on and expands previous discussions of spiritual mestizaje and aesthetics, grounding them in a theory of “border arte”–a disruptive, potentially transformative, decolonizing creative...

... inhabitants, and considers local processes of mobilization that led from the building of palenques along river basins to the constitution of community councils. In particular it explores the role that leadership and previous organizational experience play in these processes as important resources...

... The book concludes with an analysis of girls as race representative from the Civil Rights era to the present, with an anecdote from Daisy Bates, the coordinator of the integration of Little Rock Central High School. The section summarizes the previous four chapters, and it argues that African...

... the socialist state. The structural limitations of Maoist collectivism—the impact of the danwei and hukou systems—led to sexual repression, a point no previous study has made. This point is critical for understanding the rise of the impotence epidemic (the rise of desire) in post-Mao China. sexual...

... After completing the project grid in Module 9, exercises in this module are dedicated to showing how the grid can be used. In all previous modules, the sequential exercises achieved a particular goal in the project design process, such as developing a research description, figuring out...

... The introduction challenges previous attempts to analyze the relationship between the Philippines and the United States by arguing that the contemporary configuration of this relationship is complicated by the competition with growing economies throughout East Asia, specifically China...

... Unlike previous Brazilian conflicts, women played an active role in the Constitutionalist Movement and in a wide range of support services for the 1932uprising. The prominent role of women also served to reinforce claims about regional modernity and the paulistas’ sense of civic duty. However...

... 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...

.... It reviews the author’s previous shorter works on her subject. Mixing first-person experience and personal anecdote with historic material, it presents a case for exploring in depth the life of an ordinary woman who became extraordinary, the choices she made, and how her suicide kept her from being...

... The introduction explains how Ahmed is thinking of feminist theory as homework, as what we are doing when we are navigating restrictions we encounter in everyday life. She suggests that we need to repose feminism as a life question. She explains how the book relates to her previous work, as well...

... and to specify the project’s overall intellectual and social significance. Drawing on the MO (Module 6) and previous concept work, a scoping question will be composed, which overarches the whole framework of inquiry, while gesturing to disciplinary and social significance. The scoping question provides a strong...