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...Nandini Bhattacharya In this essay the author traces the mobilization of vocabularies of risk, uncertainty, and insurance within private and public affective worlds in contemporary India, and their aesthetic forms as found in Indian film and literature today. Rituparno Ghosh's film Noukadubi (2011...

...Jema Pamintuan Two films that portray the risk culture of millennial capitalism, Segurista ( Dead Sure , 1996) and Kubrador ( The Bet Collector , 2006), are used as textual evidences in discussing and challenging game-theoretic and probabilistic concepts as applied in the Philippine economic...

... that it is no longer viable as a legal institution, though is it not extinct as practice in both privileged and nonprivileged forms), against which an embattled wife-in-monogamy is sculpted in relief. The wife-in-monogamy in such a cultural-social milieu is thus constitutively produced as always at risk. Fictional...

..., this article complicates this narrative about the Cultural Revolution by documenting different experiences of sexual awakening, ingenuity, and resilience of those men as well as their fear, misfortune, and tribulations. Despite all the risks of being arrested, interrogated, and disciplined by the authorities...

... and their children's children who are at high risk of statelessness, unlike the latter who are mostly citizens of Vietnam. Without birth certificates, these children live precarious lives in Cambodia, often in the shadows of ethnic discrimination, poverty, and violence. By using various qualitative research methods...

... Study Of Trichloroethylene and Cancer Risk .” Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 36 , no. 5 : 556 – 62 . Bechtel . 1990 . Preliminary Site Investigation Report, RCA/GE/Thomson Site . Prepared for General Electric Company and Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. San Francisco...

... discussions that assign responsibility about what or who releases, studies, or interprets potentially harmful, negligible, or beneficial radioisotopes in Japan. References Associated Press . 2013 . “ Japan Court Rejects Demand to Evacuate Children While Acknowledging Radiation Risks on Health...

... to disrupt debt moral- ity. It is not the fault of manga artists, but it does help explain how we are “restrained by the hegemony of the law of exchange.” There is no way out. Concluding this issue, “Risk, Incorporated: Dr. Love and Mr. Money...

.... Consequently, many villagers gave up their original land and rebuilt houses in other available areas. Some had to rebuild houses in officially designated areas. Many others moved down from the mountain ridges and rebuilt houses along the Longxi Creek where no house was built before, owing to the risk...

... and technologies centered on a new gure, here instanti- ated as “the Human” — a global, rights- , risk- , and responsibilities- bearing individual. I track the migration of neoliberal logics to the realm of global health management and their intersection...

... as minzu yingxiong 民族英雄 (national heroes). This marriage of entrepreneurialism and patriotism was exemplified by the “wolf metaphor” that entered Chinese business discourse in the 2000s. It connoted a bold, risk-taking entrepreneur who feels a deep connection to zuguo 祖国 (the fatherland...

...” 759 long recession. This has meant reduced job security, various forms of priva- tization, and the devolution of risk to private individuals and families whose daily lives have already been severely disrupted by job loss and the prolifera...

... suggests that, for a rising global middle class, migration cannot be reduced to an accumulation strategy for upward mobility or a way of hedging against risks: it can also be a strategy of resistance against pressures produced by social and educational involution. Simultaneously, it can provide a lens onto...

... to risk. Roughly translated as “venturing,” chuangdang refers to a spatiotemporal condition in which rural migrants participate in the urban informal economy with both a small investment and their own labor on the urban fringes, yet with little social security or labor protections. It also refers...

... Restart More Nuclear Power Plants .” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , October 20 . thebulletin.org/japan-should-restart-more-nuclear-power-plants8817 . Beck Ulrich . 1992 . Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity . Translated by Ritter Mark . London : Sage . Erikson Kai...

... to actionTheUnited States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction—and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory...

... gravely risk being governed by an ever-growing warmongering tendency. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have shown that the American government is capable of deploying an immense destructive power without any principle of mod...

... indus- tries, entails confrontations with fleshy bodiliness. Custodial Labor I use the term custodial labor to name the efforts in which different actors experience unequal distributions of risk through post-­industrial commercial...

... a visual aspect of racism, but Condry ∣∣ The Social in Media 179 only at the risk of downplaying the historical contexts in which these visual interpretations are so important. Whether or not people can actually tell...

... of gay men who frequent jjimjilbangs, steeped in affective failure and loss. I conclude with a discussion of how jjimjilbangs present Korean gay men with a unique dilemma of determining how much sex is “too much.” In being unable to establish these sexual limits for themselves, they risk becoming...