Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society

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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (review)

Placing labor at the center of the global ‘land-grab’ debate helps sharpen critical insights at two scales At the scale of agricultural enterprises, a labor perspective highlights the jobs generated, and the rewards received, by people who work in and around large farms This approach guides my critical reading of the report prepared by a World Bank team that argues for large-scale land acquisition as a way to reduce poverty Using data from within the report itself, I show why poverty reduction is a very unlikely result I develop the argument further by drawing on research in colonial and contemporary Indonesia, where large-scale plantations and associated smallholder contract schemes have a long history A labor perspective is also relevant at the national and transnational scale, where it highlights the predicament of people whose labor is not needed by the global capitalist system In much of the global South, the anticipated transition from the farm to factory has not taken place and education offe

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Centering labor in the land grab debate

In the fight against tuberculosis one major obstacle is the social stigma associated with the disease. Stigma, which is both relational and contextual, marks the body of the tubercular as a site of danger. This essay reflects on the social history of tuberculosis and proposes that stigma's contingent history in the Philippines can be traced to public health campaigns carried out during the twentieth century, which sought to segregate and isolate the tubercular to limit contagion but could not provide an effective cure. The stigmatization of tuberculosis persists at present, and public health campaigns may need to address stigma directly.

Filomeno V. Aguilar

Papers

Targeting Tuberculars: Social Stigma and Public Health Campaigns

Resil B. Mojares: Adventures and Itineraries in Philippine Cultural History