... and mobile capital, pitted against workers not just in Lagos but around the world. This article adopts James Scott’s notion of everyday resistance in exposing some of the hidden practices of platform drivers in Lagos. It finds that sabotaging and falsely complying through manipulating algorithms and gaming...

... that four centuries, namely, that a connection must exist between productive labor 20 and personal development As Lefebvre had argued in ‘‘The Everyday and Everydayness ‘‘In order...

...Timothy J. Tomasik 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Timothy J. Tomasik Certeau à la Carte: Translating Discursive Terroir in The Practice of Everyday Life: Living and Cooking...

...V. Y. Mudimbe Looking at texts in everyday life might seem an effort in both detachment and critical indifference. But, is it really? Texts deliver their visibility in the contrasts spelled out by a grammar in which qualities and functions depend on word orders and the intervention of prepositions...

...Nancy Scheper-Hughes This essay explores the militarization of everyday life in the United States today, following decades of unresolved cycles of wars fought at home (e.g., the war on drugs) and abroad. A “continuum of violence” is established, through which the tactics of war and war crimes...

... of the authors with the New York penal system, this article explores the effects of budget cuts and austerity measures on the everyday lives of the incarcerated, as well as the myriad forms of labor that prisoners perform to fill the gaps in institutional commitments. Zg704@nyu.edu thuylinhtu@nyu.edu...

..., which itself happens both in spectacular moments of seemingly spontaneous revolt and in the long gestation of processes in everyday life. Moments of revolt open new possibilities, but such moments are possible only because they emerge from the structures of political organization that are forged...

...Arseli Dokumacı This article proposes a new theory of affordances that is developed through a critical disability and performance lens. Through parallels to be drawn between the creative space of aesthetic performance and the performance of everyday life lived with disability, this new theory...

...Debra Thompson Black Lives Matter (BLM) has evoked a range of emotional responses from its supporters and critics. The vast majority of BLM protests have been peaceful demonstrations focused on the disruption of public spaces, everyday errands, and white indifference toward black suffering. Still...

... analytic focus on the law. Instead, the author argues for a field-level focus built around both the everyday life of surviving sex work in the informal economy and the understanding that enforcement of the law regularly diverges from the letter of the law itself. Unless it accounts for prevailing epistemic...

... as “localism” is used to police the beach. Through an analysis of this conflict, I show how localism and safety work in an everyday context as a complex embodied, social, and spatial practice that creates “safety maps.” As I move through the personal level of safety of those involved, I explain how larger...

... to be. It was in actuality precisely along the indeterminate boundaries between those categories of rule—at the crossroads of politics and culture—that everyday challenges to colonial hegemony were vitally posed, casting doubt on its founding myths and forms of power. My intention in this essay is to explore this cultural...

... of belief. This cultivated speculative mentality is both replicated and reinforced by Victorian literary narrative's structural and thematic illumination of the constructed nature of the real, down to its most banal everyday manifestations. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Helen Groth Domestic...

... not necessarily equate to a familiar and especially an existential acceptance of death, as it is faced and experienced in everyday life and relationships. Indeed, what we may be facing and witnessing is a widening gap and experiential differential between media/technological death culture and “real-life” contexts...

... that, aside from the challenges of collective organization and the desire to maintain visibility, one recurring concern within the Occupy London movement is how its embodied practices of struggle can emanate from centralized and often symbolic moments into the everyday realms of production and reproduction...

..., pitting the vested interests of transnational political elites against the interests of local men and women in living a safe, everyday life. This essay first provides a brief history of two major military bases in the provincial city of Pyeongtaek. Then it examines how the antibase movement by local...

...Olga Lafazani This essay discuss the everyday life processes in the occupied City Plaza Hotel, inhabited by almost four hundred migrants and solidarity activists. As a member of the reception group since day one, I attempt to discuss the challenges of the project, rather than try to praise and show...

... of everyday life, civil disobedience, and migration as an integral part of the social question. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 NGOization humanitarianism solidarity border regime solidarity project ...

... and submerged networks to analyze one of the most emblematic refugee accommodation and solidarity space in Athens, namely, the City Plaza Hotel, this essay examines the constitutive and transformative potential of multiscaled “communities of struggle.” I argue that in many cases, such patterns of everyday...