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... One of the ways that capitalism operates, at least in the realm of cultural goods, is by disciplining, or creating, forms of value that exist alongside it; these are forms of value that might be culturally viewed as something other than capitalist but actually are part of capitalism—camouflaged...

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... of living labor into the reified work, and, dialectically, the model of de-reification it provides. abstraction aesthetics materialism value-form epistemology ...

... that appear to strip away the noncapitalist social relations and noneconomic forms of value that went into the production of a particular cultural good. While Tsing views various forms of promotion simply as different ways to create value, this chapter argues that capitalist supply chains that generate what...

... 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...

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... and argued that it was a relic of colonialism that had only served British interests. When soldiers took power, they changed course, embracing forms of custom that their civilian predecessors had shunned. They took customary law’s African characteristics at face value, arguing that they could be the building...

... uncertain land rights or measure deforestation on specific pieces of land. Instead, they attached forest carbon’s new value to labor and ecosystem services. Examining subsequent redistribution as a form of statecraft, the chapter argues that this approach engendered an environmentally premised welfare state...

... on the value of the Zulu warrior and the idea of culture. Ngoma singer-dancers engage and redirect these cultural brokers’ nostalgic Zulu warrior figures in their efforts to make do in a precarious South Africa and to realize their cosmopolitan forms of aspiration. The chapter considers the daunting...

... and decolonizing value of languages in their written, spoken, and sung forms. indigeneity autonomy language decolonization ...

... Chapter 3 takes on the fluvial transport and logistics industry and its governing rationality: supply chain security. It examines the forms of expertise deployed to secure the smooth and uninterrupted flow of cargo, paying close attention to the categories, calculations, and probabilities used...

... The chapter unpacks the proposition of the book to transcend home(lessness), starting from an epistemological effort to reapproach the inherent micropolitical value of any form of inhabitation. This is a question of retrieving the experience and knowledge of those precarious dwellers who...

... This chapter observes the early signs of the process of Yugoslavia’s tragic destruction in the late 1980s and early 1990s through the loosening and dissolving of fixed ritualized and standardized forms of being and living in the Yugoslav People’s Army. The protective capacity of ritualized forms...

... by the state form to legally distribute the very value of human life and, within the brutal parameters of capitalist value, its very right to self-valorization. Critically expanding on lacunae in Marx’s analysis and contributing to a larger structural understanding of the totality of capitalist social...

... and worldly agencies of diverse kinds in the making of cinema and other creative artifacts; the value of ethnographic field method in grasping creation as an open-ended process of emergence; the relationship between content and form, experience and expression, in the experimental modes of narration...

... By the early 1960s, Horace Tapscott and other artists concluded that an alternative communal value system and aesthetic that drew from the most positive aspects of their past history and addressed contemporary needs were necessary for their community. They formed the Underground Musicians...

... and strategically deployed within a racialized assemblage of interests, forms of expertise, governmental techniques, and knowledges aimed at revaluing urban space under late capitalism. Specifically, the chapter tells the story of a proprietary market assessment called the Market Value Analysis that officials...

... and ecotourists’ actual experiences, demonstrating how different kinds of values (such as morality and money) and distinct forms of personhood (such as villagers and tourists) were and were not made commensurate. materiality intersubjectivity ecotourism NGOs conservation ...