Search Results for mobility

...Domenico Perrotta This article analyzes migrant agricultural labor in southern Italy, focusing on migrants from Burkina Faso and Romania laboring in the regions of Puglia and Basilicata. The argument underlines the connections between mobility, willingness to work for low wages, and conflict...

...Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Mobility in Chains: Freedom of Movement in the Early Black Atlantic...

... as a patronizing, divisive, and implicitly racist trope. Yet it is currently embraced by right‐wing figures as a route through which the ideology of the opportunity for “upward social mobility” and neoliberal, marketized meritocracy can be promoted; is linked to displays of nationalism, military‐style discipline...

...Thomas Keenan 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Thomas Keenan Mobilizing Shame What difference would it make for human rights discourse to take the photo opportunity seriously? Not the photo ops on behalf of human...

... approach against the background of the multiple transformations and crises of the European border regime, the authors focus on shifting paradigms in the management of labor mobility. A short review of the emerging field of “critical logistics studies” allows them to single out a process of “logistification...

... . 2017 . Platform Capitalism . New York : John Wiley and Sons . A G A I N S T the D A Y Kevin Lin and Pun Ngai Mobilizing Truck Drivers in China: New Migrant Struggle and the Emergence of Infrastructural Capitalism W e can t take it anymore. We have no choice but to stand together! We...

...Martha Nell Smith Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Martha Nell Smith Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen: Performance as Commentary This guy, call him Bruce no, he s not a queer, thank God, sir will be a national hero. Jefferson Morley I m always somebody who has a lot...

...Robert H. Woody Mobile: History of a Seaport Town . By Summersell Charles Grayson . University, Alabama : University of Alabama Press , 1949 . Pp. xi , 81 . Paper, $1.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly to disaster...

...T. Swann Harding Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 OUR MOBILE AMERICA T. SWANN HARDING ON a Sunday night not long ago I sat down before the fire­ place to read Reginald Aldworth Daly on Our MobileEarth for the rest of the evening, for I have recently demobi­ lized, myself...

... offering a respite, a cure that briefly bound rapt readers to their chairs. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 David A. Ellison Mobile Homes, Fallen Furniture, and the Dickens Cure Modernization is a process by which capitalism uproots...

...David Underhill Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Hurricane Frederic vs. Mobile David Underhill Some wind gauges blew away when hurricane Frederic hewed the Mo­ bile area on the night of September 12-13, 1979, and left behind the greatest sweep of damage by a misdeed of nature...

... in the remaining weeks of pregnancy. This decision, more than any other, is the material manifestation of the strategic efforts of a broad sector of Colombian feminism grouped under the slogan Causa Justa (Just Cause). This article briefly presents the history of feminist mobilization around abortion in Colombia...

... market characterized by very low wages and abusive practices. The challenges of mobility within the EU are presented from an institutional perspective, focusing on its effects on migrant labor as well as on social partners in the receiving countries. The claim is that, in the context of increased labor...

...Julie Peteet This article explores time as a lens through which to understand the lives of Palestinians under a colonial-settler occupation and policy of closure where time and mobility are weaponized as an integral part of expanding the state and winnowing the indigenous population. Time, like...

... that this reliance on marginalization as a way of understanding sociopolitical exclusion limits political thought, this article calls for a renewed attention to actual material configurations of social exclusion. Considering ethnographic research with adults with mobility and speech disabilities in Petrozavodsk...

...Hernán Alejandro Cortés Ramírez This article examines the recent conjuncture of the national strike in Colombia, analyzing its demands in relation to the structural problems that gave rise to them. The text draws from experiences in the mobilizations and theoretical reflections that have emerged...

... that brings together a focus on the desire to travel and on expectations of popular progress with an analysis of contemporary dynamics of exploitation. On the other hand, she investigates the infrastructure and logistics that organize mobility beyond the reference to the figures of “traffickers” and “slaves...

...Julie Livingston; Andrew Ross Consumer lore in the United States celebrates the automobile as a “freedom machine,” consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the crossroads of two great systems of unfreedom and immobility—the debt economy...

...Jasbir K. Puar This article examines the production of mobility obstacles and restrictions in Palestine, highlighting dimensions of the logistics of border crossings and movement in the West Bank in relation to disability rights frameworks. It argues two things: that the creation of what Celeste...

... mobilized by Fridays for Future and Youth for Climate activists: the political potential of affective tipping points which trigger moments that “draw a line” and bring together the temporalities of mobilization and geological change; the politicizing effect of painful emotions, such as anticipatory...