...The Postwar Period, 1945–1956<subtitle>Settling of Scores</subtitle> ...

... In economics consumer choice is a notion that helps to explain the price of product. As this notion travels, it seems to suggest that consumers make a choice between different goods. In this chapter, however by John Law and Annemarie Mol, the person who settles on what to eat for lunch in a self...

... “Perfect Day” is a personal essay bracketing the 1990s in a longer arc, ending in the author's more settled life of kids, partners, blended families, and all that. It starts by winding back to the author's teen years. “Living as a man was nonconsensual,” the author writes of her teenage self...

... As concern about the negative effects of opium grew, officials and reformers proposed a variety of potential solutions including better control over sales, registration of users, restricting the amounts sold, and prohibition. This chapter explores the ways that anti-opium reformers settled...

... The conclusion explores the process through which the tourism industry has conjoined itself with the retirement and health care industries to provide balikbayans with a solution to their incessant anxiety around returning and settling back home in the Philippines. Retirement villages represent...

... This chapter focuses on the conceptual aftershocks stemming from book 3 of Plato’s Laws , where Clinias reveals to his interlocutors that he has been commissioned to settle a new colony. Reading Strauss and Badiou as mutually implicated in a tradition that posits the nonrelation between law...

... description of one who is restless, willing to live for a time without any settled context, a sojourner who’s always leaving. picaro sojourners restless feminism feminist picaresque ...

... deportation advances settler colonialism. Settling requires evolving legal regimes to maintain territorial and social control over a space animated by Indigenous sovereignty. The chapter bridges critical migration studies and critical Indigenous studies to analyze contemporary mass displacement. I propose...

... This chapter tracks patterns of informal settlement through the late 1980s; it also addresses the state’s apparatus of counterinsurgency, which was designed with a view to bringing unregulated urbanization under control. As increasing numbers of illegal migrants settled permanently on the edges...

... without the vital life force of grease. With the increase in tribal fighting, the spirits of deceased warriors roam in ever greater numbers, preventing people from settling and farming on lands where enemies have died, thereby further truncating social flexibility in Porgera. cosmology ritual...

... of the everyday or profane world. Tracing sanctuary to the sacred, it shows how this tradition is inseparable from that which disrupts the ordinary and the routine. This introduction offers various origin stories, or histories, of sanctuary—without settling on any one of them as the beginning or root...