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... This chapter examines the Panthers’ evolving gun politics. It contextualizes the BPP’s stance on armed self-defense as part of a nationwide conversation by black nationalists and elements of the New Left and traces the roots of the Panthers’ engagement with armed self-defense to the political...

... 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...

... posthumanist or dualist ontologies and explains the relation between poiesis as a stance in the world and poetic technologies. It reviews reasons to be interested in poiesis; the role of science, especially in enframing, and of cybernetics and Indigenous knowledges in poiesis; poiesis as picking up threads...

... human and nonhuman agency and the dance of agency that connects them. It also emphasizes the generality of the analysis: the story of invasive species has the same form as the evolution of the war on terror and of struggles with the coronavirus. The eels story is our first example of the stance...

... this affective stance by bringing people into an intimate, visceral engagement with newly created chemicals. What is it about such an affective stance that allows people to live with apparent contradictions, reassuring them that they can poison the world without limit even as they recognize that a limit must...

... chemistry embedded in current modes of production and consumption. In this chapter a series of ethnographic “stopgaps” set in Chicago, New Delhi, and Venice examines the part that one key technology, the automobile, has played in cultivating this affective stance by bringing people into an intimate...

... The concluding coda takes a stance against population as a useful concept. Climate change has recharged the concept of population within policy and politics. In contrast, the coda argues that population, as a concept for governing human fertility, is infused with racisms and dangerous...

... of multiculturalism in Norway, and the other accounted for an honor killing in a migrant family from Kurdistan. In such cases of polarized moral passions, the efforts to render the complexity of the situation and maintain a critical stance are met with suspicious or even hostile reactions from all sides...

... an effective ethical and political stance based on a logic of documentation that involves an act of witnessing one’s past failure “to see on time.” If the “crisis of witnessing” addressed in chapter 5 has do with the demand imposed on Palestinians to serve as witnesses of their own suffering, “the crisis...

... the author’s research in Dutch New Guinea with Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg’s groundbreaking Righteous Dopefiend. The chapter finds ingredients of a more affirmative stance toward anthropology than usually associated with Writing Culture, one based on what Michel-Rolph Trouillot calls “an epistemology...

... by non-Indigenous bureaucrats, provide a narrative means to make plain the ways that Indigenous cultural practices can require a reflexive, even defensive stance vis-à-vis outside eyes. The conclusion suggests that these activities provide a fundamental rubric for understanding the radical mediatization...

... The introduction sets forth the relationship between language and historical imagination in the making of the Philippine nation-state and the U.S. Empire from the perspective of translation. Conceived as a practical act that entails an ethical stance, translation is as much about speech...

... Chodorow). Adding to this catalog of the mechanisms and motives for forgetting women activists, Snitow identifies another layer of difficulty: Women of the third wave had a principled stance against being remembered or lionized as individuals. Their values stipulated that no one woman should stand out...

... to China’s 1910s New Culture and May Fourth movements and took inspiration from Nationalist Party leader Sun Yat-sen’s affirmation that Confucianism and industrial modernity could be fully compatible. Sun amplified this stance in United Front Canton. In the wake of Sun’s 1925 death, his most militantly anti...

..., moʻopuna); as a way of approaching the world; as a way of approaching study of our indigenous past; and as a stance that supports the whole project of (re)establishing Hawaiian political and intellectual history. In “Moolelo Hawaii Kahiko,” Poepoe thus simultaneously examines works of moʻokūʻauhau...

... caregivers and the state, suggesting how resistance to economic austerity measures does not necessarily result in a rejection of settler colonialism. The analysis locates some workers’ articulated pro-Israel stances in relation to Christian Zionism and the comparative status of Israel as a “second tier...

... what he perceives as a world music mafia also alienates potential allies. Amid this rough and tumble, Mapfumo records the song “Marima Nzara (You Have Harvested Hunger),” a harsh critique of ZANU’s violent seizure of white farms. Mapfumo’s stance, and this song in particular, creates a powerful new...