...This chapter examines the specific pedagogical means by which literacy lessons attempted to extract subjects from their everyday orientations to the world. It also considers some of the problems raised by the movement's adoption of such a theory of language and personhood. It begins by explaining...

.... It argues that these struggles arise in part because of the ambiguity of citizen armies. It shows that relatives of missing in action insist on the demobilization of bodies after a conflict—the return of those lost in war to civilian status and full personhood, and the return of their bodies for burial...

...This chapter examines the tension between nature-loving and nature-exploiting to help shape multiple Japanese attitudes toward the issue of Buddhist vegetarianism. It explains the narrative of Conquering Yamato, who was known for disrespecting a mountain deity. Within personhood relationships...

... experiences, and speculations about the possible religious talents of nonhuman beings. Moreover, the world of Buddhism and nonhuman nature reveals that personhood elements within the Buddha's biography later helped incite personhood nature religious impulses in the tradition as a whole. The chapter also...

...This chapter explores how cultural backgrounds, migration experiences, socioeconomic circumstances, and social relationships as well as master narratives of nationhood and concepts of personhood affect immigrants' conception of home and belonging, perceived relationships with Japan, and future...

... in 2008. The narrative attributes those events to the polluted offering scarves she had inadvertently brought into the home, as local officials anxiously anticipated Tibetan unrest ahead of the Beijing Olympics. The author uses that account to lay out her approach to the politics of personhood...

... personhood and that concealment is an almost sacred privilege, then we might argue that that the secrets of others must not be exposed under any circumstances. A corollary question is whether there is something important about not knowing the secret. One also wonders whether the writers, should they have...

...This chapter examines how human rights discourses and norms ostracize others—along with those lives seen to exemplify them—from the purview of full personhood. In particular, it explains how anxiety about the body finds its central expression in the dual myths of human dignity and bodily integrity...

... relational animism, nature mysticism, animal animism, and ecocentric personhood relationships. Moreover, Every Western Buddhist encourages respect for natural entities in some form or another, and, in so doing, they reflect sentiments expressed in the ancient Pāli jātaka tales. The chapter expounds...

... of Black suffering; and questions concerning Black personhood. Black deviance tropes of discipline fines and fees municipal autonomy municipal services North St Louis County policing for revenue predatory policing racialism rights risk suburban citizenship suffering violence white spatial...

...This chapter examines how Falkland Islanders have used infrastructure as a means of resolving the temporal paradox between retrospective peoplehood built on a shared past and prospective personhood constituted in an uncertain future of oil production. It pays particular attention...

...This book explores the connection between the politics of missing persons, or what happens when people go missing—as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster as well as under more everyday circumstances—and the ways in which personhood is regularly produced under current...

...This chapter elaborates on the nature of Buddhism. It starts with the Buddha's multifaceted interactions with nāgas which provides further understanding of the overall roles of natural beings in the Buddha's life. Moreover, nāgas articulate their personhood by practising Buddhism in sometimes...

...This chapter discusses how IQ reappeared in the era as a proper measure of personhood. Numerous figures looked to psychometrics as confirming the objective existence of separate subjectivities. Examining the promise and defeat of artificial intelligence in philosophy of mind and New Wave science...