... from the past to the present in relation to provisioning health on a global scale? This introduction also provides an overview of the chapters. colonial metrics postwar international health humanitarian aid ...

... This chapter introduces the reader to the contradictions and contours of everyday penal colony life by way of an 1853 dispute between a number of slave and free convicts and Izabel, the colony commander’s slave. The convicts provided Izabel with produce they had grown on their provision grounds...

... gave married men preference when assigning posts that awarded better pay, immediate access to provision grounds, and the right to live in unattached housing to allow them to support and protect their dependents. Commanders associated the batch-living aldeia , the barracks where miserable...

... and the rechanneling of such pressures. It argues that, whereas replacement was once a condition for local values (constituting, as it were, the systematic provisioning of social life), irreplaceability (as opposed to commensurability per se) became, for those villagers implicated in the ecotourism project, a value...

... social reproduction of Kuwaiti families, and through their remittances, the everyday provisioning of the households and communities they have migrated from. This chapter underscores how domestic workers’ “temporariness” is produced amidst—and belied by—past and present transnational connections that knit...

... of South Africa’s cities, Cape Town among them, the state deployed new development policies, including the provision of housing and basic infrastructure. As a strategy of divide and rule, development both turned those with formal homes against those living in shacks and created internal divisions of gender...

... movements demanded the provision of public services, as the capitalist modernization of the countryside propelled the accumulation of wage-insecure workers in the city and the emergence of shantytowns. The “civic strikes” that rocked Barrancabermeja in the 1970s had much in common with earlier labor strikes...

... The chapter opens with the diplomacy leading to 1990 German unification, largely on Western terms. It shows that unification arrangements contained no provisions blocking NATO’s subsequent eastward expansion. It covers Boris Yeltsin’s march to political power in Russia and the conflict between...

... the previous decades. Finally, the Civil Code made the recognition of paternity largely a prerogative of fathers and emphasized filial obedience over paternal provision of care. Civil Code debt consolidation marriage family Chile ...