... a self-fulfilling cycle of the interior's supposed “backwardness.” In the column's coastal logic, if interior communities supported the rebellion, by willingly handing over supplies or even volunteering to join the column, such acts were held as proof of a worthy and civilized predisposition. Yet because...

... a “pharmacological” account of the purity that is often at work in the dismissal and destruction of practices that do not pass the test of proof, proposes an account of domestication and a conception of generic propositions as central to the cultivation of differences between practices and the work of distinction...

... a dozen monuments, tombstones, and museums that memorialized different aspects of the Prestes Column's march across the interior. The memory sites were physical proof of the themes discussed throughout this book, including the power dynamics of how local spaces in the interior could garner attention from...

... Chapter 5 tackles the “crisis of witnessing” associated with the demand imposed on Palestinians from both human rights NGOs and the global media to provide visual proof and eyewitness accounts of their suffering and hardship. The chapter engages with two essay films that the author argues...

... the inadequacies of seemingly more transphilic genres of the revelatory memoir or autotheory. The proof of the existence of trans people in the past and present is both essential and insufficient to dismantling cisgender economies that traffic in recognition, disclosure, and the perpetual diagnosis of trans people...

... This chapter concerns the scientific proof of transsexual nature , a term used in the legal codes on transsexuality in Turkey. The first part of the chapter examines the scientific history of the contemporary regulation of sex/gender nonconformity and transness by situating the medicolegal...

... This chapter explores questions about the social and cultural aspects of the making and the reading of a scientific theory. What is a mathematical proof? What does it mean to understand a mathematical work? To shed light on these questions, this chapter compares Évariste Galois’s memoir and some...

... nationality, due to poor documentation of births, government policy and practice, and intentional discrimination. Migrants in the Americas are particularly at risk. Many persons who are entitled to citizenship cannot prove it, or proof is disregarded by officials. Citizenship status, in turn, determines...

... minstrels and racist caricature in 1930s and 1940s animation. Animation, so suited to expressing the impossible, unleashed fantastic versions of blackness and punished them for their power and difference. Both an exception and proof to the rule, this shift in animation practice was integral...

... to three types of citizenship—national, regional, and global. Each citizenship status confers entitlements to a distinct set of rights and benefits—residence permits, rights of free movement, refugee protection. The chapter explores the evidentiary obstacles that vitiate proof of entitlement to each...

... of the implementation of regulations pertaining to documentation and proof of identity. It discusses the laws of ivoirité and how they challenged the prevailing electoral, nationality, land, and labor acts. As well as looking at how the policy affected Ivorian society, Babo investigates how ordinary citizens navigated...

... crops) in their communities. Third, witch hunts have also been used to protect the old moral economy and, at the same time, to promote the new economy of accumulation. Importantly, the authors note some recent expressions of the rejection of such belief in the witches and demand for proof of witchcraft...

... nationality, due to poor documentation of births, government policy and practice, and intentional discrimination. Migrants in the Americas are particularly at risk. Many persons who are entitled to citizenship cannot prove it, or proof is disregarded by officials. Citizenship status, in turn, determines...

... as proof of cultural alienation or political moderation, this chapter elaborates the progressive character of his vision of colonial abolition through political integration. It examines how Césaire’s project was mediated by the legacy of Victor Schoelcher’s 1848 program for the abolition of slavery...

... Before Duch’s lawyers presented their closing arguments, he delivered his own argument about his innocence, presented as a documentary “proof,” perhaps in keeping with his background as a mathematician. His lawyers then picked up on their argument that he had been a cog in the machine...