... night work eight-hour day circadian clock economic well-being physical well-being social well-being ...

... that there is no single laboring body left for which a collective struggle can be waged. It has splintered across many domains, and its cares and concerns have been divided up into the sociologist’s concern for social well-being, the economist’s concern for economic well-being, and the natural scientist’s concern...

... concretely in the bodies of other human beings as well as in the physical structures of the world. social norms materialization performativity Judith Butler Linda Martín Alcoff ...

... represent the demise of a vision of citizenship and social security in which the nation-state was responsible for social well-being. They enable an unrestrained form of capital accumulation tied to government policies and social struggles unfolding in different spatial fields, from the defeat of working...

... by emphasizing the materiality of “social norms”—the fact that we encounter these norms concretely in the bodies of other human beings as well as in the physical structures of the world. social norms materialization performativity Judith Butler Linda Martín Alcoff ...

... This chapter analyzes moral economies, forms of social imagination, techniques of enchantment, and spurs to affect commonly belittled, easily dismissed, yet pervasive in/around humanitarian practices. Humanitarian object-beings like Trauma Teddies and Aid Bunnies combine humanity and animality...

... Chapter 1 introduces a lived bem-estar (well-being) by centering the meaning of Black lesbian vivência(s) and turns to the notions of sexual health broadly and body politics that expose social disequilibrium within gynecological encounters. Falu argues that Brazilian Black lesbians adjust...

..., development, and postwar trauma resolution she once worked for—to being “100% Omnilife.” Omnilife is a Mexico-based vitamin business, sales of which allow people to accumulate points as well as profit from people lower down in their “pyramid.” Former guerrillas, grassroots organizers, Mayan movement activists...

... slaves, as well as the sale and transfer of slaves to other Brazilian provinces. These events made it critical that the authorities maintain order and the social relations of slavery in the cities and towns of the Recôncavo. Ultimately, popular involvement was fundamental to putting an end to slavery...

... concessions as well as infrastructure projects, such as building dams and roads. The critiques have focused on the high costs to the health and diversity of ecosystems and to the well-being and livelihoods of local communities vulnerable to pollution and displacement. For environmental movements throughout...

... and advice online to the privatization of risk and happiness—as they labor to hold together and optimize their families amid increasing insecurity. Mothers are often anxious and overwhelmed, as what is at stake in their women’s work is not only the health and well-being of their own children but also...

... a contradictory, but intense political period—social movements have taken up the banner of some of the demands in newly contestatory ways, while political conservatism has also been in the streets for the first time in a generation. As well, the political process has been unable to absorb this energy...

... pushing education, development, and postwar trauma resolution she once worked for—to being “100% Omnilife.” Omnilife is a Mexico-based vitamin business, sales of which allow people to accumulate points as well as profit from people lower down in their “pyramid.” Former guerrillas, grassroots organizers...

... began to flourish in worlds designed with the well-being of others in mind. Cattails, charismatic birds, and a multitude of insects began interrupting human dreams and schemes. Final solutions to the problem of living with parasites failed in Palo Verde. Humans and parasites, who became paraselves...

... and when does it mean life?” as well as questions about method and narrative, such as “How might we account for the complexity of vital substances, while staying close to the thoroughly human elements of appetite, nutrition, and illness?” It contrasts ideas of being a metabolism from having a metabolism...

... insurrectionalist models are being resurrected in French philosophy’s re-tooling of a vitalist metaphysics. Similarly, thinkers such as Antonio Negri argue that capital unleashes life as a productive force it cannot finally control. Instead, and in productive contrast to de Bloois and Korsten, Noys argues...

... Luis Espinal (1932–80) was a Jesuit priest and journalist of Spanish origin who after being censored resigned from the offcial Spanish television channel under the Franco dictatorship and gained a new lease on life in Bolivia in 1968. He immediately adopted Bolivian citizenship and gradually...

... on health care workers and examines how they navigated this epidemic through the dual imperatives of surveillance and care. The decisions that they made about what, how, and among whom they shared knowledge about their patients were consequential for individual and population well-being and for how...

... and to the well-being and livelihoods of local communities vulnerable to pollution and displacement. For environmental movements throughout the country—which had early high hopes for the Movement to Socialism ( mas ) government, especially given the initial legislative proposals to defend “the rights of Mother...

...Forms of Life Focusing on Schmitt’s claim that the fence precedes all social relations, this chapter contrasts this notion with the emergent politics of the commons. Not only does the fence divide, it brings order and establishes law, providing the basis for the conceptual maneuvers...