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... and stored forms of capitalist value that I theorize, following Pierre Bourdieu, as symbolic capital. Three case studies help make this argument: the rise of the virtuoso musician in western Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and their management by concert agents; the history...

... infrastructure” through which crews and clients could find one another, helping to circulate the necessary economic capital to help build the mobile scene over time. disc jockeys Asian American Filipino American symbolic capital social networks ...

... This chapter looks at the institution of the “showcase,” or large-scale, multicrew performances that could draw hundreds or thousands of people from across the Bay Area. Showcases were an important mediator of symbolic capital within the scene and thus drove both competitive and cooperative...

... This chapter examines the ways in which the aquatic space is reflected in a new political context. In particular it shows how this space has been mobilized in the formation of community councils along river basins. The river remains a key resource, both materially and symbolically, as it forms...

.... The struggle to make Sucre the unitary capital (capital plena) served the opposition as a unifying symbol and fuel for direct action. At no time was this movement more volatile than in 2007, when street violence paralyzed Sucre and nearly shut down the Constituent Assembly. The movement publicly harassed...

... If capitalism creates other forms of value that accompany it, there remain still other forms of value that can exist apart from it. This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of the independent (indie) rock scene in the east-side Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. There is very little...

... Divine Lynxes: When the Middle Ages ended with the bubonic plague pandemic and the first iterations of wage labor began and merchant capital began to take hold, cats as symbols of economic power and economic disinheritance did not disappear, rather they were transformed. This chapter narrates...

... This chapter investigates the significance of the apocalyptic landscape and zombie figure in Díaz’s short story “Monstro.” It focuses on the zombie within the Caribbean context to suggest that this particular incarnation mirrors the history of capital-based societies with their Western...

... Blackness came into being with the figure of the Black slave, capitalism’s most visible symbol of the possibility of violence without limits and of vulnerability without a safety net. Without restitution, reparation, and a striving toward universal justice, the Becoming Black of the world...

... the international business, banking, development, and political interests that comprised the Washington Consensus. Nevertheless, the resulting influx of foreign capital did not generate economic growth or employment, and “capitalization” became a symbol of the failed promises of neoliberalism that would come...

... for the fungibility of bodies as capital across borders and the continuing perils of abstract labor associated with the “new Jew.” Far from symbolizing multicultural inclusion, this chapter argues that the border is a central motor for the expanded fulfillment of a settler colonial mode of production that relies...

...Layered Histories Chapter 1, “Palimpsest City,” provides a layered history of contemporary Chinese world making. The chapter is based in two sites in Johannesburg: the “mining belt mall,” a symbol of post-2000 Chinese developments along the old mining belt, and the city’s two Chinatowns...

... a destructive control over the creation of relative surplus value, is resignified after West Coast expulsion and relocation. Focusing on Joy Kogawa’s novel Obasan and Rea Tajiri’s video-memoir History and Memory , the chapter examines how symbolic identification with Jewish persecution before the war shifts...

...The Body and the Dispensations of Racial Capital This essay argues that the engagement of social difference from the standpoint of disability could prove to be especially provocative within critical ethnic studies. Building on the work of Hortense Spillers, the essay questions the assumption...

... Lacan with which the majority of literary critics are most familiar, Kornbluh plots the coordinates of a Žižekian literary materialism that attends not only to the confluence of different levels of the Symbolic within literary works but also, and most crucially, to the non-sensical, traumatic kernels...

... members receive the spirits of the dead who return momentarily for the feast. On 1 November 1979, General Alberto Natusch Busch launched a vicious coup in the capital. Popular protest was met with open assaults in the streets. Hundreds of people were killed or disappeared over a two-week period, and La...

... discourse and at times made various non-Catholic creeds—white US moral capitalism, African American Protestantism, and Latin American positivism—seem compatible with each other as well as with local expressions of Dominican Catholicism. These convergences, however, also had their fault lines. Catholic...

..., amplifying what could have been and what might yet be. Tituba subjunctive decolonization more-than-human erotics This chapter explores why a number of feminists in Ireland have reclaimed the witch as a symbol of empowerment in an attempt to resist the patriarchal society that they feel exists...