Suchergebnisse

From the study of migration imaginaries to the study of artistic mobilities, taking into account artistic expression has considerably renewed the approach of migrations. In particular, musical productions have been considered as a privileged way of collecting migration imaginaries. Is music, and especially rap, only then the faithful representation of a migrant voice? By putting migration imaginaries in perspective with the lived experiences of mobility during artistic careers, developing on the examples of Senegalese rap groups Wagëblë and Daara-J Family, the article shows how artists can appeal to a particular migration imaginary, that of the "soldier" rather than that of the "adventurer" to stage their artistic career, according to the conventions specific to the musical genre to which they wish to belong.

This two-part article analyzes the nature of political power in Western capitalist societies and its implications in medicine. Part I presents a Marxist theory of the role, nature and mode of state intervention. Part II focuses on the analysis of that mode of state intervention in the health sector, and on the relationship between its growth and the current fiscal crisis of the state.

Virgin Capital examines the cultural impact and historical significance of the Economic Development Commission (EDC) in the United States Virgin Islands. A tax holiday program, the EDC encourages financial services companies to relocate to these American-owned islands in exchange for an exemption from 90% of income taxes, and to stimulate the economy by hiring local workers and donating to local charitable causes. As a result of this program, the largest and poorest of these islands--St. Croix--has played host to primarily US financial firms and their white managers, leading to reinvigorated anxieties around the costs of racial capitalism and a feared return to the racial and gender order that ruled the islands during slavery. Drawing on fieldwork conducted during the boom years leading up to the 2008-2009 financial crisis, Virgin Capital provides ethnographic insight into the continuing relations of coloniality at work in the quintessentially "modern" industry of financial services and neoliberal "development" regimes, with their grounding in hierarchies of race, gender, class, and geopolitical positioning