.... A practice theory approach to clan is outlined and Bourdieu’s formulation of social capital serves as a foundation for understanding how clan is experienced and employed. The chapter discusses Somalis’ initial movement to Finland as accidental and later movement as a strategy to access benefits...

... governmentality black hair racism Berlant Lauren cruel optimism optimism cruel feminism motherhood resistance Gill Rosalind makeup Winfrey Oprah Choice Agency self-confidence pleasure cruel optimism psychic capital Explaining the evolution of her dress style, how she had come to be drawn...

... the lack of cultural capital and low investment in understanding the function of ICTs in children’s lives are two key issues that help to explain why interactions between parents and children in a migratory context are increasingly marked by emotional distance. digital divide in Italy transnationalism...

... counter-normative marginalized naming cultural capital critical pedagogy mentor teacher HER SKIN WAS SLIGHTLY DARKER than café au lait, and her shoulder-length, wavy brown hair framed a cherubic face. She entered a room with authority, pausing slightly to survey her surroundings as if assessing who...

... of LWOP serves as an understandable rhetorical strategy to spread the anti-death penalty gospel to more ambivalent audiences, it undermines a central organizational posture of the abolitionist cause: understanding capital punishment as only the most macabre expression of a colossal and broken prison...

...This chapter introduces transnational feminist and affect theory frameworks, two activist troupes, and key concepts of sentimental capitalism and hunger called theater to argue the significance of analyzing a global discursive regime of creative economy policy within the same analytical frame...

..., but they also altered the postwar mixed economy, privileging capital and sacrificing manufacturing for the chimera of high technology, finance, and real estate. This sectoral shift profoundly changed the size and composition of the labor movement. The distortions produced by this recomposition of the economy...

... enclaves. While the ethnic markets' familial/patrilineal structure creates social capital and a safe space for the South Asian women, it also makes them vulnerable to exploitation in terms of reduced wages and increased work hours. child care ethnic enclaves family families male owned businesses public...

...This chapter examines the rise of networked militarization in the United States. It considers how increased spending for U.S. military procurement sparked a shift into networks in capitalist development, casting digital capitalism as a permanent, pervasively militarized social formation. It shows...

... from operating systems, browsers, search engines, and social networks to program content. It then considers how recomposition continued at a frenzied pace across this great range throughout the digital depression, signifying capital's scramble to open and to occupy high-profit boxes. It also explores...

..., and revamping the ways in which ordinary people worked, played, and communicated. It also considers rival efforts to shape the destiny of the overall political economy and U.S. capital's influence over both domestic and many transnational markets through preemptive appropriations of internet connectivity...

... it generated—filtering, life cycle, racial tipping, and revitalization—and the corresponding assumptions each makes about the cause of neighborhood change. It then discusses critical approaches that interpret neighborhood change in terms of the social relations of reproduction, capital accumulation...

... dimensions. As such, they espoused a liberty that foreshadowed the emergence of postwar radical resistance to the power of capital. The chapter considers spiritualism's views on science and religion, slavery and emancipation, property, and liberty for working women. It also discusses the spiritualist...

..., it offers an overview of criminal justice history in the South from the antebellum era through the rise and decline of convict leasing in the postbellum era to the development of new practices surrounding policing, incarceration, and capital punishment after 1890. It also explains the significance...

... the NBA’s executive operations, the relationship between sport, the media industries, and global capital are made increasingly clear, as sporting interests become secondary to commercial media interests. American Basketball Association ABA Ginobili Manu James LeBron jerseys Jordan Michael Manhattan NYC...

...This chapter examines the ways in which the portrait was utilized as a tool for social change as it presented the accumulation of knowledge, skills, and consciousness of Chicago’s black entrepreneurs and became a distinctive form of cultural capital. Positioning themselves as models for emulation...

...This collection of nine original essays explores the development of a modern criminal justice system in the Jim Crow South, from the 1890s through the 1950s. It covers key transformations surrounding the practices of policing, incarceration, and capital punishment, as municipal police departments...

... through the 1870s, a period that saw the rise of a permanent wage worker class and the formation of an industrial upper class. The book demonstrates how a new political economy, based on wage labor and capital accumulation in manufacturing, superseded an older mercantile economy that relied on speculative...

... in doing so. It conferred value, in this case cultural capital, on those musicking in all its facets. This value, in turn, served in the performance of gentility in the mid-nineteenth century. The source materials include binder’s volumes (bound volumes of sheet music or manuscripts), letters, diaries...

...Black southerners brought barbecue and blues music with them in the Great Migration from the South. Those two pieces of cultural capital turned into immensely profitable, scalable enterprises in Black Chicago that both even sparked a few dynasties. In fact, one successful barbecue pit master even...