... exhaustion worry hope humility Drunk History ...

..., exhaustion and worry. Both adhere to the definitional model of obstruction (distinct from obstacle) elaborated in this book, yet within each phenomenon, not enough value inheres to compensate for their tolls. The caution taken in approaching these last two obstructions animates, as well, the conclusion’s...

... explained. The Dorns move to England. Hettie adjusts to solitary life. Helene worries about her from Colechester, where Ed teaches. Hettie gets and loses editing jobs, a relationship with saxophonist Marion Brown, writes a poem, is employed as writer for an antipoverty agency. Helene worries about England’s...

... by “flesh” in the writings of Merleau-Ponty. Nancy worries that Merleau-Ponty’s “flesh” is a metaphysical concept that subordinates differentiated bodies to a universalizing explanatory principle; for Luce Irigaray, the appearance of flesh in Merleau-Ponty evidences the suppression of the maternal feminine...

... Ecosystems are popularly understood as having essential parts, species, which are necessary for the functioning of the whole. Early theorists supposed that ecological communities would predictably reemerge in the same form if destroyed, while later conservationists worried that they might fall...

... the land, plants and animals, and human bodies. This life force, ipane (grease), is central to ancestral spirit rituals. Conversion to Christianity has ended many of the rituals formerly used to placate ancestral spirits, which has led most Porgerans to worry about “the end of the land,” a landscape...

... France dismissing Mesmer, and the more general alarm raised concerning “charlatans” are explored here for what they can show us about the exclusion of “the public” evident in discussions about its worrying “credulity.” The chapter develops Gilles Deleuze's idea of the “truth of the relative...

... national sentiment that Mexicans should control the nation’s natural resources. Scientists nonetheless worried that peasants ( campesinos ) and indigenous people lacked the knowledge and maturity to manage the woodlands, and prompted Miguel Angel de Quevedo to help write the 1926 forestry code...

... This chapter analyzes food policing through the discourse of fūhyōhigai and its gendered mechanisms. Originally a concept to help food producers gain compensation for reduced sales due to the fear of contamination, the concept had a wider influence, often equating consumer worries...

... the history of US-Trinidadian relations during the Second World War thickens our perception of island-continent interrelations, and worries a tradition of American continentalism that narrowly reads islands as isolated, peripheral, and ancillary. The circulation and social history of this stolen calypso tune...

... to forests inhabited by Rarámuri (Tarahumara) people. Mexican scientists eventually began to worry that the scale of logging might cause irreparable environmental damage. commodification railroads Porfirio Díaz Purépecha (Tarascans) Rarámuri (Tarahumara) ...