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... Producing the Forest: Chapter 2 explores how Acrean forest protection entails increasing the production of many things other than carbon commodities—rather than an anticipated decrease in production often associated with forest carbon offsets. In the context of green capitalism, the low-yield...

... complement primary texts to reveal a more human experience of the Indian Ocean World. These diverse sources and methods yield different perspectives and sources of information that enhance the historical record of texts alone. archaeology architecture art music popular religion ...

... cannot describe or will not capture—this chapter argues that beautiful Black feminist writing has performed its work through the creation of a black feminist grammar that is always both discursive and visual. The visual logics of Black feminist beautiful writing have yielded a new form that includes...

...—and concludes that these were quick-fix strategies that yielded short term, and short-lived, gains. de-gaying AIDS epidemic gay and lesbian movement direct action ...

... will yield empathetic insight. However, this chapter asks whether an empathy machine otherwise is possible—can the fantasy of being another person be implemented with care? Drawing on the time spent with cofounder Carrie Shaw and her coworkers, this chapter suggests that deploying VR such that it does...

... In this chapter Jankélévitch claims that for Bergson there are, in theory, two kinds of simplicity. On the one hand, multiplication and combination of elementary and abstract simplicity yields complication. On the other hand, concrete and immediately given simplicity is intrinsically complex. He...

... This chapter reads the performance of Juba and the Buzzard Lope dances by both slaves and their post-Emancipation descendants as a refusal of capitalism’s commodification of the body. In contrast to the violence enacted on the flesh by slavery in order to yield the disciplined body, Juba beating...

... Writing some hundred years after the publication of Jacopo de’ Barbari and Anton Kolb’s celebrated View of Venice , Thomas Coryat stated of the Venetian empire: “All these territories both by sea and land do yield them . . . exceeding great revenue.” Chapter 21 explores how the View...

... constitute a mode of resistance in that these work against European norms of transparency, interrupt the gaze of Western thought and governance, and count as a refusal to be accepted solely on the terms of the colonizer. Theorizing by way of the intimate, this chapter seeks to explore what thinness yields...

... Scientific forestry, the practice of managing woods to achieve the maximum sustained yield of timber for commercial practices, emerged as a central issue of contention between the Mexican government and rural populations during the twentieth century. Although scientific forestry was implemented...

... encounters with photography and art, especially in yielding the mediated experiences of the borderlands. DMZ photographs camptowns Real DMZ Project repetition ...

... with this question: not an existential crisis but a methodological one. Without a product, there was nothing to aim efficiency interventions at and no way to measure whether those interventions had yielded improvements. Tracing this story through medicine introduces readers to how efficiency functioned...

... of work as an educational reformer who saw efficiency as a critical vehicle for the injection of egalitarianism. Yet, Flexner’s application of efficiency to medical schools did not yield egalitarianism. Instead, the Flexner Report is illustrative of the twisting, complex path that efficiency took toward...

... The chapter discusses how the Indian state’s efforts to bring Dalits to parity with other groups in society have yielded results that are more a continuity than a change. Academic discourse assumes that caste is birth-based and hence to be eradicated, while class is desirable as it can...

... geology , in which the subterranean was envisioned as an ordered set of strata that preserved the past and yielded future wealth. The chapter argues that the contemporary legal split between Bolivia’s subsoil and surface realms can be traced back to the codification of theological and geological...

... sequel Rainbow Popcorn (2012), both directed by Susan Chen; and Baby Ruth Villarama’s Sunday Beauty Queen (2016). The chapter shows how an unruly comparison of queer intimacies in contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong yields a sorely needed intersectional critique of race, migration, and queerness...