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... This chapter focuses on processes of sorting people out according to sovereign affiliations, and it considers the Ottoman capitulations’ structuring role in a world of global commerce, mobility, and communication, even after the dissolution of the empire after World War I and the denial...

... the current literature on Duch answers this question, usually by emphasizing the “man” argument. The “ordinary men” thesis, however, is somewhat insipid, suggesting a sort of modal personality devoid of complexity. The epilogue considers a nuanced explanation through a discussion of the “effacing conviction...

... or threatening, or when institutions operate through categories in search of security and systems of governance. There is often a grind between Serresian fluidity and ethnographic reality: categories of ordering and sorting, such as “minority,” “refugee,” and “ethnicity,” carry indexes of power and serve...

... This short chapter discusses a traditional approach to erosion control in forests as a blueprint for poiesis, which is elaborated in the following chapters. The poetic stance appears here as deliberately staging dances of agency, and the absence of science and calculation is noted. This sort...

... for having proposed antiphilosophy as a subdiscipline in which all analysts would have to be trained. Yet from Badiou’s point of view not only Lacan but undoubtedly Žižek as well would have to be read as antiphilosophers. The chapter aims to sort out the stakes behind this debate. philosophy...

... Taking a granular view on subsistence strategies, chapter 3 closely examines the family’s ways of making ends meet. In the task of making ends meet, most residents are hard-working bricoleurs. At the root of this incessant bricolage are all sorts of informal networks at work. The poor rely...

... After independence, Nigeria and other African countries were left with a mixed bequest from Britain. Military officers wanted to keep some parts of it and discard others. The first task of independence was to sort through it and see what was what. That process was especially important...

... This interview captures an informal exchange between mentee and mentor as Celeste Watkins-Hayes visited Johnnetta Betsch Cole as she prepared to return to her home state of Florida. Sorting through papers, books, artwork, and clothing that would later be archived at Spelman College and housed...

... they do. The chapter describes this slippery solidarity as a sort of liquidarity , a blend of loose stranger-sociability and vague belonging. Under conditions of liquidarity, participants sustain a vague sense of social belonging, recognition, and intimacy while also enjoying the advantages of anonymity...

... This book invokes the notion of brutalism to describe an age gripped by the planetary-scale pathos of demolition and by the production of darkness and all sorts of waste, leftover traces of a gigantic demiurgy. The aim is not to write the sociology or political economy of brutalization, nor...