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... This chapter offers a glimpse of the routines that structured Yugoslav military service. Soldiers had to learn these routines through repetition, embody them, and become habituated to them. During the first months of the military service, they were exposed to intense training, education...

.... This duality of habit formed a part of the binary structure of medieval society in being limited to its upper echelons and distinguished from the more routinized forms of training brought to bear on the customs of lower social strata. The chapter outlines the respects in which this duality has informed later...

...-Puerto Rican bomba routine that was part of a Zumba Fitness Master Class. Analyzing the bomba routine shows how Zumba Fitness can be interpreted in multiple ways. At times, it may seem to reinforce tropicalized Latinness and the five tropes discussed in the book. At other times, though, there are moments...

... This chapter demonstrates how patients and families become caught up in the world of kidney transplantation, especially living donor transplantation. Living kidney donation, in particular from an adult child to a parent, has become a normal cultural practice and a routine social fact...

... Chapter 4 examines how prospective queer parents understand race and kinship at the site of gestation. As a form of embodiment mired in the feminine, gestation is routinely erased as a site of labor in both fertility industry discourse and queer reproductive narratives. This erasure is aided...

... Counterintuitively, rural medicines proliferate in Togo’s capital city, Lomé. They are sold on street corners, in market stalls, and by itinerant vendors in neighborhoods. Market women and civil servants alike, and 100 percent of those interviewed, used herbal medicines routinely while also...

... then discuss suicide as an example of how indentured servants’ will was read in the archive in ways that routinized violence and overestimated the difference between enslaved and contractual labor. I critically imagine the will of these indentured servants through a close reading of Agnes Sam’s short story...

... of the term mixtape within hip-hop for DJ-created works of turntable artistry, creators and consumers of indie music constructed the mix tape as a gift that symbolically rescued music from the profane world of commodities. The mix tape's routines of announcing one's music tastes as a bid for connection...

... and its implications for relations among young Yugoslav men brought together on military bases, as well as for relations between men’s uniformed and “ordinary” selves. Together with repetitive, standardized routines, the uniform worked as an equalizer for drastically different men, but the military...

... and Naturalization Service procedures through routines of informational inputs, processing, and outputs. These processes both relied on and made possible an informational sensory regime whereby citizenship and territory are made. automation Vietnam War electronic fence sensory regime ...

... fracture and multiply the rigid genomic logics naturalized in the fertility industry. While the racial categories ascribed to donors are often assumed to be used for racial matching, the parents interviewed here routinely reject matching in favor of other priorities. In the process, they highlight...

... explores the tradition of clemency in the context of the Jim Crow South with a focus on Mississippi and Louisiana, where clemencies were routine. Through a discussion of customary practices that regularly shortened the sentences of even those convicted of murder, as well as an analysis of clemency...

.... With the U.S. economy in decline during the 1970s and a more conservative political leadership in power by the end of the decade, death sentences were routinely decreed on programs not commercially viable. Nevertheless, UGMAA was able to achieve non-profit status and a substantial building, “the Shop...

... spectrum atypical antipsychotic medications is routine among homeless women. Clinically speaking, post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder are difficult conditions to diagnose and treat in the presence of active substance use. Yet the symptoms of these conditions—trauma, despair, rage, and mania...

... objectives and ends. The focus of the chapter then shifts to the municipal government agency whose ongoing responsibility it is to define and measure disaster risk. Following the daily routines of its staff reveals that risk management, far from a closed domain of technical expertise, is a contingent field...

... and generation within local communities. For their part, shack dwellers persisted in struggling for urban citizenship: they honed courtroom tactics, resisted evictions and deportations, and engaged in routine activities that ranged from the building of shanties and makeshift schools and churches to the formation...

... and its universalizing capacity, pushing to the background particular ethnic, social, or educational characteristics of soldiers. The routine, the ritualized, and the uniformed thus unfold as forms inhabited by now lost political alternatives, as they offered a possibility for the Yugoslav men...