... on the streets by working, begging, or stealing, and why they label the whole range of such activities as “work.” In examining the various kinds of labor the children engage in as they try to make a living in Rio’s destructured, largely informal economy, I use “child street labor” to refer to these varied forms...

... peripheries through a variety of informal economies, with blurred boundaries between the legal and the illegal, which can be read as a prototype of financialization’s arrival in these territories. It is there, the article hypothesizes, where capital extends its frontiers and where the necessity of a specific...

... 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...

... national movement weakens, and the refugee community becomes more fractured— spatially, socially, and politically—new forms of sociality and provisional association, mostly forged in the informal economy, are emerging in and around camps. How refugees tackle immediate material concerns, express grievances...

... and direct, informal cash payment. Cash the most liquid form of payment, in the economic sense of being easy to exchange without incurring costs or losses has long been tied to bodily fluids: to blood in classical political economy, and to shit and to the sexual fluids of 502 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

... the stakes and importance of establishing and developing these intellectual connections. Amy Kapczynski is one of the founders of and most prominent voices in the Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project, whose work focuses on the political economy of the politics of care, informational capitalism, and health...

... “nonpolitical” or “prepolitical”—we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular “moral economy” of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters were acting in defense of the “customary entitlements” of what we call a neoliberal “deal”—a deal based on aspiration, plentiful...

...Amanda Boetzkes This article considers how Georges Bataille’s account of solarity informs a planetary perspective. Bataille is credited with formulating a critical analysis of “solar societies” whose economies are shaped by the exchange of solar energy. However, a sometimes understated facet...

...Matthew Abraham This essay uses Fouzi El-Asmar's To Be an Arab in Israel as a point of departure to examine the plight of Israel's Palestinian Arab citizens since 1948, while also exploring the inherent contradictions within the logic and political economy of Zionism that situate Palestinians...

... (2017: 111) in calling advocates for alternative economies to “immerse ourselves into the heart of technologies and attempt to make them our own against the forces of domination that deploy technologies against us.” The goals of this collaborative research are to inform more equitable tech policy...

... for their gestural economies, but also for the informed conjunctures by which harmed people have lived. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 agitation embodiment disability gesture References American Psychiatric Association . 2013 . Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...

.... As part of that political process, in May 2017, the feminist movement convened a mobilization, with the slogan “We Want Ourselves Alive, Free, and Debt Free” in the doorways of the Central Bank to denounce the process of massive indebtedness of domestic economies that occurred in parallel to the taking...

... item purchased cost the buyer two of the same item in return. Others, however, saw the stores as essential nodes of the prison economy, allowing them to access goods when their need was most acute. Amari, who managed an informal store for several years, justified it this way: A person like me, who had...

... • April 2018 argument also raises a debate about neoliberalism’s origins in the region, meaning a dispute over the subjectivity of popular sectors and its expression in informal and nonwage economies. Finally, based on a reading of subal- tern desires for prosperity I synthesize a series...

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.... Meléndez Edwin . 2009 . “ Worker Centers: Defending Labor Standards for Migrant Workers in the Informal Economy .” International Journal of Manpower 30 , no. 5 : 422 – 36 . Zibechi Raúl . 2010 . Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces . Translated by Ryan Ramor...

... et al. • Logistical Borderscapes 307 Furthermore, our research demonstrates that the image of a “shadow economy,” developing and operating “in the dark,” secluded from “regular” employment circumstances, is rather misleading. That is because the boundaries between formal and informal...

... . “ The Holding Pattern .” In Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class, and Other Misfortunes . London : Endnotes . endnotes.org.uk/articles/18 . ILO (International Labor Office) . n.d. “ Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture .” ilo.org/dyn/infoecon/docs/441/F596332090/women%20and%20men...

... a Convention and Recom- mendation on domestic workers’ rights that breaks precedent by “moving the ILO standard setting process into the informal economy” (Shah and Seville 2012: 445). Focused reŸection on day laborers’ and domestic workers’ circum- stances of work, as well as the sociopolitical...

... at the prison commissary a site of markups and profit-taking for firms and the informal economy that revolves around it. The adage that you need money to live in prison is fleshed out with testimony about inmate stores and the culture of hustling that sustains those who are jail rich and further burdens...