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"This collection forges new ground in the discussion of aristocratic and royal women, their relationships with their objects, and medieval geography. It explores how women's geographic and familial networks spread well beyond the borders that defined men's sense of region and how the movement of their belongings can reveal essential information about how women navigated these often-disparate spaces. Beginning in early medieval Scandinavia, ranging from Byzantium to Rus', and multiple lands in Western Europe up to 1500, the essays span a great spatio-temporal range. Moreover, the types of objects extend from traditionally studied works like manuscripts and sculpture, to liturgical and secular ceremonial instruments, icons, and articles of personal adornment, such as textiles and jewelry, even including shoes"--

The Small Arms Survey 2012 seeks to increase our scrutiny of what is changing, and not changing, in relation to armed violence and small arms proliferation. Chapters on firearm homicide in Latin America and the Caribbean, drug violence in selected Latin American countries and non-lethal violence worldwide illustrate that security is a moving target; armed violence, both lethal and non-lethal, continues to undermine the security and wellbeing of people and societies around the world. The goal of curbing small arms proliferation, embodied in the UN Programme of Action, appears similarly elusive. Chapters on illicit small arms in war zones, trade transparency, Somali piracy and the 2011 UN Meeting of Governmental Experts highlight some of the successes, but also the continuing challenges, in this area. -- Publisher description

Abstract
Helium's material form is unstable, moving from gas to liquid under temperature. Lighter than air, it evades the immediacy of perception. Thinking through helium offers an approach to the entanglement of forms of matter that makes movement the locus. Helium shifts an understanding of "between" to one of motion, of phase shifts and plasticity rather than difference, in which the durability of matter—and of the human—withdraws.

IS THERE A POLITICAL FORCE CAPABLE OF SETTING ASIDE THE SLOGAN OF THE "BROAD DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE" AND "POPULAR DEMOCRATIC STRUGGLE," AND ENTERING--DIRECTLY IN THE TEETH OF THE CRISIS--INTO THE POLITICS AND THE PRACTICE OF THIS WAR OF POSITIONS AGAINST THE RADICAL RIGHT? THIS ARTICLE ATTEMPTS TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION.

In this article, the authors engage with three emerging debates germane to contemporary biopolitics: (a) How do we advance the critical interrogation of the biopolitics of human movement? (b) How and in what ways might we "move" about (and ideally against) regimes and systems of biopolitical subjectivity? and (c) How might "moving" methods of writing, representation, and performance bring light to contemporary biopolitical struggles, contestations, and power relations?