... of music and videos are also at work remaking the flows of information and money in global capitalism—in both its legal and formal and its illicit, often offshore varieties. Struggles between ownership and access affect a wide range of technologies, forms of cultural production, and products of scientific...

...This chapter looks at the figure of the indigene as it relates to the question of nativity and ownership in the American context. The Arab figure that mostly reverberates with the midcentury American national imaginary is the Bedouin. Americans in the Near East justified U.S. national expansion...

... health workers’ monthly income fluctuates because of the precarity of their work schedules. bitterness health home care workers nursing homes reciprocity home care house state retirement Social Security wages transnationalism home ownership mortgages retirement transnationalism social...

...The reader is introduced to the Santuario de Chimayó and its famous healing dirt. The concept of “religious ownership” is introduced, and its application to the case of the Santuario is discussed. The physical and historical setting of the book is detailed, with sections on northern New Mexico...

...The book concludes by revisiting the metaphor of religious ownership and how it has been brought to bear on the history of the Santuario; the chapter also provides suggestions as to how this metaphor could be fruitfully applied to other contexts. The conclusion then turns to why the Santuario’s...

...This chapter explores how Douglass drew on the experience of slavery to defend the classical liberal idea of self-ownership. His abhorrence of slavery provides the foundation for the two principles at the core of his political thought: it led him to embrace the liberal idea of self-ownership...

...This chapter addresses the psychological significance of ownership and possession and explores how people perceive them. It shows that an individual’s notion of possession is not necessarily physical but may extend to intangible entitlements and expectations. This state of affairs may support...

... property laws and conflicts that offer productive areas for further behaviorally informed research. The book critically addresses several topics from property law for which psychology has a great deal to contribute. These include ownership and possession, legal protections for residential and personal...

..., color, or religion.” Two ideas were at the core of his political thought: a belief in universal self-ownership and a commitment to a doctrine he called “true virtue.” Brown John Declaration of Independence Dred Scott v Sandford 1857 egalitarianism in Douglass’s thought mutual responsibility self...

...This chapter draws out the political consequences of Douglass's belief in self-ownership by describing his commitments to individual rights, toleration, and limited, representative government and by demonstrating that he rejected anarchist, socialist, perfectionist, and radical democratic...

...This chapter uses Edward P. Jones' The Known World—a twenty-first-century novel about slave ownership among African Americans—as a launching pad in discussing the possibilities of historical totality. It questions whether the absences inherent to archival practices concerning...

... the results. In this manner, a substantial volume of skilled work, knowledge, and IT technologies has been migrated to the cheapest available labor markets. However, a good proportion of these efforts result in a flagrantly unequal property grab, and so the ownership shares are being contested in the name...

...This chapter explores the fascinating story of the legal battles over colonial church property ownership in the new republic. Much is known about the law and politics of disestablishment in the early Republic. But what happened to all the land, such as glebe lands, that established churches had...

...Chapter 2 explores how community organizing has aided residential cohorts in asserting power and claiming ownership over the neighborhood. Old Timers were active in a neighborhood that suffered from city divestment and deindustrialization. They took actions to make their neighborhoods safer...