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... and statistical classifications and techniques of enumeration to delineate Israel’s efforts to racialize the appropriated space. Historically, the article identifies a boomerang trajectory, beginning with the massive confiscation and Judaization of Palestinian land in the wake of the 1948 war, then extending...

... around popular demands to be counted, climate change adaptation is the most recent idiom in which claims to recognition-through-enumeration are being articulated. That said, the term lo público did not figure prominently in these discussions. This fact should not be overlooked. Better yet, it should...

... portals, often in close to real time. Despite the difference in the form of enumeration, data portals go hand in hand with the index and its drive for privatization and entrepreneurship. As the CWMI report puts it, Water data systems . . . can enable targeted policymaking by states in areas...

... and quantity constantly gives rise to new forms of meaning and value. The contentious life of the crime statistic in South Africa makes plain that enumeration is never a mere flight from substance: measurement is always medi- ated by historical...

... the ways in which technical practices are harnessed to the Alliance’s political horizon. They are: self-surveys and enumeration; housing exhibitions; and toilet festivals. Contemporary scholars, led by Michel Foucault, have drawn attention to the use of censuses and other techniques of enumeration...

..., however, are confusing. At one point, Aijaz says that “the essential global reality was composed of a triangular contradiction” (17- 18) between - he enumerates elsewhere - “imperial- ism, decolonization, and the struggles for socialism” (9). A few pages later, he declares that “the whole...

... that the purpose of enumerating residents is to build appropriately sized infrastructure. The state and its institutional arms must render its environment legible, what anthropologist James C. Scott (1998) refers to as “seeing like a state,” in order to manage it. The census, much like other forms of information...

... certain of its citizens on the basis of their status as homosexuals. A section of our brief enumerated the wide range of discriminatory measures put in place between the 1920s and 1950s, including regulations that prohibited bars and restaurants from serving homosexuals, the federal govern- ment...

... that would have the one political community, given the single, de- terminate, demographically enumerable form of the nation-state, assume the directing role in all regulatory functions of society, usurping the domain of civil society and family and blurring the distinction between the public...

... owners since these relationships cannot be reduced to simple correspondences between owners and singular objects. This situation has presented notorious problems for researchers as well as regulatory authorities.16 Since enumeration is 14. See Foucault 1991 on the emergence of an economic object...

... connections between human bodies, #BlackLivesMatter helps to illumine how social media and social life are mutually constitutive ( Berlatsky 2015 ). The names of the lives lost in recent years—more numerous, of course, than those noted in this essay—are now often enumerated via tweets and status updates...

... agentive perspectives on the market is, of course, attributable to the mathematical and statistical nature of market transactions. In the citizen-state, the statistical enumeration of the popu- lation and the controlling of risk are subsumed within the first-person collective national identity...

... then 279 Public Culture have an enumerated, finite list of commodities—ready for entry into a book of accounts—whose prices add up to $250 million. The peculiarity of the fantasy, by contrast, is that the “list” of commodities it corresponds...

... of the art of distinction.67 The enumeration of the slightest educational achievement is one of the postcolonial codes of prestige, with special attention being given to distinctions attained in Europe. Thus, for example, people cite the number of diplomas with great care, they exhibit...

... Press, 1987). Braybrooke claims that a thin concept of need "can make a substantial contribution to settling upon policies with- out having to descend into the melee" (p. 68). Thus, he does not take up any of the issues I am about to enumerate. For a hller discussion of this issue, see...

.... Mindful of our documentary interest in her career, she enumerates the various companies she was with. She joined a circus at the age of nine, because “she had a taste” for the circus after attending shows with her grandfather. She kept performing until after her marriage. Chandini joined a circus...

... obsession with metropolitan intellectualddebates and the ad homi- nem character of his polemics. Things are no better, however, when we turn to literary theory itself-the subject of the book. Ahmad never bothers to enumerate its...

... to “la pensée historique française” (French historical thought).9 The reasons he enumerates for the ostensible mistrust of postcolonial studies in the academic milieus that, paradoxically, gave the term postcolonial unprecedented...

... as the language of a missionizing and eventually a conquest church.16 The state for which Latin spoke was centralized and militarized; it was standardized (in terms of such things as currency and law), and rationalized, with populations enumerated for taxation...

... future expenditures in contradictory zero-sum games. They are contingent circuits of obligation. Such circuits can just as easily be restructured as prosocial grants and nonprofit endeavors that serve ecosocial repair and transformation. For this reason, MotL regards enumeration and accounting...