... rubber regime Leopoldian rape imperial (rape and sexual economies) madness imperial suicide ...

... Carbon Boom: Chapter 1 analyzes a key component of the effort to make Acrean forest carbon valuable: Acrean rubber history and its retelling. It also presents key components of Acrean history: the rubber boom, the development of the famed rubber tapper social movement, and subsequent state...

... Set in Leopold’s Congo, this sensory reading explores how this rubber regime was lived, perceived, investigated, and heard , especially in the Abir concession. Novel evidence on sexual economies anchors the analysis with the attempted rape of Boali, plus her testimony about her foot being cut...

... space. The project was intended to connect principal urban sites with mining and rubber zones. Calderón envisioned that access to the rubber region in the Beni would stimulate trade with Brazil and allow for Bolivian export of precious tropical products. But in the end, the lines that were built...

... In 1904, Bolivia and Chile signed the Treaty for Peace and Friendship, which obliged Chile to build the railroad between Arica and La Paz. 2 The year before, the Treaty of Petropolis resolved the territorial dispute between Bolivia and Brazil—the former would cede the rubber-rich Acre region...

... In this chapter, nine improvisers reflect on their encounters improvising while literally connected by large rubber bands. The practice of “banding” is an experimental exercise in movement and sound improvisation Tomie Hahn developed in 2008. During the 2010 Improvisation, Community and Social...

... siting in former Abir territory of rubber violence. Development lifted living standards and aimed at alleviating security risks. Kitawala Kimbanguism venereal screening Simon Mpadi Ekafera penal colony ...

... in the medium of the rubber eraser, and a short tagline included below the illustration. This chapter shows how these three elements worked together to offer an immanent critique of television, and examines Seki’s concern with the shape of the public sphere in a mediatized society. national media sphere...