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...After Globalism Writing Group Water is a continually sought after resource, and we are just beginning to fully understand the water wars to come. The long history of water struggle upon indigenous territories and the global South, such as the Cochabamba water wars in Bolivia and the #NoDAPL...

...Mandana E. Limbert Duke University Press 2001 Attia, Habib. 1985 . Water-sharing rights in the Jerid Oases of Tunisia. In Property, social structure and law in the modern Middle East, edited by Ann Elizabeth Mayer. Albany: State University of New York Press. Barth, Fredrik. 1978...

...Figure 1. Ligia Lewis, Water Will (in Melody) , 2019. Performance view. Performance Space New York. Photograph by Maria Baranova. Courtesy of Performance Space New York. ...

... of contemporary cultural materials (classics like the movies of John Waters and the early performances of Bette Midler, as well as such recent works as Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth , the television show Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! , and music videos by Fergie, Nicki Minaj, and Psy) and show how...

... the colonial violence of IRL and the Western civilizational paradigm of their mediated virtuality. The Mapuche nonbinary body lives as the transitive time space–bound coordinates between this world and the next. What are these arts of land and water defense? And how does trans- Indigenous embodiment...

... Is Cinema? , 1:14 . 30 Significantly, the night before the opening of an installation of Margolles’s work in San Juan, Puerto Rico, a yola boat filled with (mostly female) Dominican immigrants capsized in the waters of the Mona Passage, and in the early morning the remains of some of these women...

.... Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 port mine network capital extraction condensation For the Standing Rock Sioux, David Archambault II says, water is not a resource but a relative. 1 It is kin to the species producers of lifetimes for capital, including the nonhuman beings...

... In the hardscrabble cities of the so-called Global South, what constitutes a viable politics of climate mitigation for an urban majority sometimes keeping its head above water and, at other times, creating the semblance of dynamic livelihoods? Despite enduring poverty, there is much about urban life in the South...

..., the comparisons between them end halfway into the poem as ross shifts the focus to the irreducible life-giving properties of water. “Water's fall is also a float,” ross writes. 44 This “float” “feeds Red Clouds, Blue Cedar, White and Yellow Wren” and “Fish, Spring Frogs, Prayers.” 45 Water, these lines...

... weightless. . . . It would have to be immediately and ideally displaced. 44 Similarly, the “magic” Venn's machine demonstrates requires material conditions to be treated as logical relations. The sand and water that overflow the lower bowl and pile up in the trays and filters below grant no insight...

... and they that had done right went away from the holy place and were forgotten in the city.” . . . A gale sprang up at sea which threatened to wreck him. He said: Apparently the power of the God of these people is only over water. When Pharaoh came He drowned him in water, when...

... the throat of a woman first glimpsed in a water meadow. Who can tell what the brilliant Immanuel can or can’t have had in mind? In his Physishe Geographie volcanoes blow their spouts off, wild beasts...

... with the material infrastructure of water, gas, and electricity for the ideals to have any real weight or meaning. The scene is a perfect reduction of the problem this essay addresses, the essential tension between democratization and mod- ernization and, in particular, the status within global modernity...

...-built homes are one or two rooms in size, many with earthen floors and with rooftops made of recycled materials. Water is scarce, electricity is stolen, and formal employment and public services are nonexistent; drugs, on the other hand, are widespread. The reconfiguration of La Joya as El Hoyo by its...

... confessed that two slaves ‘cut themselves in the finger . . . mixed the blood with earth and water, and drank it with the assurance that they would not confess to the conspiracy no matter what pain they were subjected to.’ ” 26 Dirt, core to these oaths of loyalty and secrecy, was also core...

... in the New River is especially harmful because it flows through the Imperial Valley, which is a major source of winter fruits and vegetables, cotton, and grain for domestic and export markets. Water contamination from industry runoff has long been a serious problem in the border context. In the late 1990s...

... than provider of services. In this model, municipal services are run more like a business with the emphasis being on financial cost recovery. Priva- tization has resulted in escalating costs of such basic services as water and electricity. Cost recovery...

... the Water.” She details the shipping and harbor engineering that has resulted in the Durban port being the second-largest shipping terminal in Africa. She also discusses the “multi-scalar and multi-temporal nature of port city space, both above and below the water line” (1033). 17. Gopinath...