... In the plane from London to Delhi, a boxer who had represented India at the just-concluded 2012 Olympic Games was returning home. He sat next to the author and made small talk with a young German woman sitting in the same row. In this brief chapter, the author recounts the overheard conversation...

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... Chapter 2 begins with a discussion of a court case in Northern Australia: a desecration lawsuit that the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority brought against om Manganese Ltd., a subsidiary of om Holding, for deliberately damaging an Indigenous sacred site, Two Women Sitting Down, at its Bootu...

... Tío is the name given to the numerous rough statues of the Devil that protect veins of minerals in strategic places in the mineshafts. The tío is always found sitting wrapped in streamers and confetti, with horns on his head and a big, erect penis. Miners sit with him during rest periods...

... of political intensity and goes on to demonstrate this by turning to a small, plastic-covered, Mao-era “Little Red Book.” The Little Red Book being used, however, is not one featuring Maoist political bullet points, but a manual highlighting new medical methods. Sitting at the intersection of Maoism...

... This chapter argues the practice of “staying at the bone” unites black feminist beautiful writing. Staying at the bone is a commitment not simply to sitting with loss but to attending to its material details: What does loss look like? What does it feel like? How does it make its presence...

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... infrastructures not only assist in but also perforate, interrupt and sit alongside powerful efforts to constitute liberal cities and subjects in Mumbai. hydraulic citizenship publics water reforms postcolonial city ...

... Indie porn is being heralded as a political vision, a mechanism for social change, and a revolutionary movement. With indie porn film festivals around the world, DIY, feminist, queer, artisanal, and fair trade porn is promising to diversify and democratize pornography. However, indie porn sits...

... This introductory chapter interrogates the dominance of violence against women (VAW) and gender-based violence (GBV) agendas within international governance and law. Feminist concerns about the gravity of gendered violence (small g) sit at the nexus of powerful global networks of institutions...