...Geeta Patel Duke University Press 2006 Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital On 1 March 2004 a prominent Calcutta newspaper ran the following Geeta Patel advice: “Fixed cost: For birth of a boy: Rs. 3001, for birth of a girl: Rs...

... to the racialized fears driving insurance calculations for international study programs to the struggles over academic freedom and student organizing. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 queer studies safe space safety securitization Left critique campus politics We have followed campus...

... 2006 Contents The Spirit of Neoliberalism: From Racial Liberalism to Neoliberal Multiculturalism  Jodi Melamed 1 Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital  Geeta Patel 25 From Portbou...

...- mously successful in alleviating poverty through pensions, education, health insurance, and subsidies for construction and jobs, most of which have benefited white male workers and their families? No. Welfare is a program that enables welfare queens to drive Cadillacs...

... that security and insurance should be such an obsession for both NRIs and their desii (of the Indian subcontinental homeland, but also referring to roots, pride, and culture) counterparts; by all indications, India is one of the world’s...

.... This serves to undermine the whole heritage and rationale of the British welfare state: one that relied on pro- gressive taxation to deliver a comprehensive social insurance system, giv- ing those in need of benefit a sense of entitlement. Using the defense...

... that colonialism's epistemic and political regimes are essential to the maintenance of contemporary finance, particularly “high risk” investments in the so-called emerging markets (hugely indebted and thus vulnerable countries in the Global South). 37 Value under our current, inherited system of insurance, credit...

... back, and you are forced to sue, not because you are litigious but simply in order to get your health insurance to pay. All these things, by the way, really happened. ...

..., these humans were also perishable and volatile commodities that could “go missing” and were hard “to extract”, requiring complex, even diabolical, logistical technologies, supported by finance, insurance, law, and of course state and extrastate violence. Ian Baucom locates the origins of modern insurance...

... — the most obvious parallel may be the recent publication of materials from Walter Benjamin’s files 3 — but also a variety of counter-archival and insur- gent endeavors, such as the Anales de Declasificación, an ongoing series of volumes...

... not provide them with even the most basic benefits such as a lunch break, overtime pay, a day off, protective gear, sick days, not to mention health insurance, disability insurance, or vacation time (even unpaid). One in four fatal occupational...

... realm of transnational maritime insurance and commercialism. Within seventeenth-and eighteenth-century maritime history (and, indeed, maritime slavery), risk referred to a material and corporeal “financial instrument for coping with the mere possibility of peril, hazard or danger.” 9 To cope...

... this austerity program on New York. The decision to form MAC was made on Memorial Day, 1975, at the home of the president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, its details worked out “by a group of banking officials known as the ‘New Jersey...

... for sick leave, maternity leave, and disability insurance. 55 This regulation secured artists’ rights as workers on a comparable level to those who were employed. However, the decision about access to these rights was in the hands of professional artists’ associations and based on aesthetic criteria...

... has shown, risk is a statistical category invented by the insurance industry and adopted by institutions as a mechanism for self-­preservation.50 When campus administrators speak of “the risk of doing nothing,” they primarily attempt to minimize risk to the institution — ­the institution...

... not be offered ads for health insurance or particular vacation packages because how identity of a private analysis of one’s Web surfi ng habits.17 In a sense, these digital models may be more insidious than public categories are representations, because the models and the algorithms that guide...

... into the contraceptive mandate. Under the ACA, religiously affiliated employers who object to providing contraception can be exempted from the mandate by filling out a form stating that they object on religious grounds. The insurance company is then required to provide contraception to the employees at the insurer’s...

... of trauma emerges as part of a “coalition of medical and legal inquiry [that] underwrites not only the trend toward psychological exploration, but also the burgeoning insurance industry.”25 Within the neoliberal culture of the contemporary...

... to buy a car or shoulder the costs of insurance, registration, and parking. Before social justice advocates like the Bus Riders Union (BRU) put the cause of civil rights and transit dependency at the forefront of Los Angeles municipal politics, the marginalization of low-income transit users...

... you have her papers?” “Yeah, they’re in the diaper bag,” she responds. As the scene cuts away to a black screen, on which appears the list “Mutual Funds, Annuities, Life Insurance, Long Term Care Insurance,” the dark-haired lesbian is heard in a voice-over stating wondrously, “Can you believe...