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... Chapter 7 returns to the question of autistic perception and explores how the concept of depression expresses itself in the context of a neurodiverse account of experience. It begins with a triple account: Peter Pelbart’s story of the petrification and spark at the heart of Félix Guattari...

... Education is an apparatus of the state to colonize and mold useful, docile subjects and citizens, but education can also enable resistance to oppression and liberate. It was thus a battleground for the culture or canon wars of the 1980s and 1990s sparked in part by the Third World Liberation...

... and violence increased. The chapter contextualizes provocative Reform era student practices by looking at the state interventions they have sparked. Linking student experiences of state violence and counterviolence, the chapter analyzes the connections and tensions between the student movement’s call...

...Preface The preface provides the reader with the context of the book’s writing during the early months of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the loss of the author’s father to cancer, and the Black Lives Matter protests sparked by George Floyd’s murder; explains the protocol of distilling the 49...

... The book's epilogue briefly summarizes Lil Nas X's career post–“Old Town Road” and the song's legacy. Though “Road” proved to be the artist's last attempt at a country crossover hit, the debate the song sparked opened doors for other Black crossover artists and “country trap” songs. Lil Nas X's...

... This chapter tells the story of Hubert Silberrad, a colonial administrator who sparked a major controversy in Britain by taking three adolescent African girls as mistresses. Silberrad offered an interesting defense: he argued that he had not acted immorally since he had followed local protocol...

... of the “bot” illuminates the very human investments behind digital strategies of resistance and anti-surveillance that have sparked solidarities with Black Lives Matter and anti-fascist movements. Rather than refuting or rejecting the bot label, she is interested in what the metaphor of the bot—and the idea...

...” was sparked by the deaths of three soldiers. “Silt of Each Other” speaks back to a moment of US imperialist pseudoscience and declares a different kind of manifest destiny. “Rain,” “Vena Cava,” and “Baño” follow threads of water and history. “Bees” is about solidarity across species and “Resurrection” draws...

... A recent development in the screen industry in Zambia has sparked optimism. The African entertainment giant M-Net’s launch of the regional television channel Zambezi Magic on the pay-television platform DStv since 2015 has especially been hailed as an opportunity for the nascent filmmaking...

... of incarceration. Their actions and peer-to-peer training exceed the discursive limits of the cap-and-gown narrative of other undocumented youth risking arrest. When IYC trainers brought their “Undocumented, Unafraid” workshops to Hawai?i, they sparked a youth-led reckoning with the complexity of migration...

... conditions. Forests emerged as important sites of social contention after the revolution, as land reform and economic nationalism began to deliver the woods to rural communities. Land reform sparked a strong agrarian movement in Michoacán and a nascent labor movement in Chihuahua, both of which echoed...

... prefigure the violence sparked by anti-Black racism. Frantz Fanon colonialism doctor-patient communication language ideology anti-Black racism ...

... by the state. This chapter looks at works by three filmmakers that have won prizes at European film festivals while sparking debates in national and regional contexts. It analyzes Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar’s Silent Waters (2003), which explores the revelation of a Pakistani mother’s traumatic past...

... This chapter tells the story of the 1858 uprising in the Point neighborhood of St. John’s. Job competition between Antiguan and Barbudan dockworkers sparked the outburst. Over several days, Antiguans progressed from attacking the persons and property of Barbudans to targeting Madeiran retailers...

... epidemic created an epidemiological apparatus that structured and policed the pervasive indigenous/nonindigenous divide in Delta Amacuro. The Bolivarian Revolution sparked effective national efforts to ameliorate health inequities, but health/communicative inequities largely remained unaddressed...

... desires that sparked India’s collective weight gain. It maps historical and literary portraits of fatness in India and details how globesity presumes a national vulnerability through comparisons of bodies experiencing newfound prosperity. Claims of obesity’s emergence in India impelled physicians...