Tupananchiskama/Until We Meet Again: Research Ethics and Bodily Vulnerability in the Time of COVID‐19

As anthropologists, we face ethical dilemmas even during “normal” times. But the pandemic has forced us to face yet another important question: do we know when to stop? Bodily vulnerability and in‐situ ethics were brought into stark relief when the outbreak of COVID‐19 found me, a graduate student researcher, in a small Andean community in the department (state) of Cusco, Peru, where I had been researching healing and the ethics of ayni, or reciprocal care. Given the quickly changing circumstances and increasing vulnerabilities as the pandemic started, staying to continue research seemed drenched in the imperialist “will to know”—the conceit that my need for information was more important than my safety and the care my friends and kin had shown me

A NEW DAWN FOR GOOD LIVING: WOMEN’S HEALING AND RADICAL RESURGENCE IN THE ANDES

Health and wellbeing stand at the center of Indigenous decolonial activism across the Americas. At the heart of this dissertation is the construction of Indigenous-run healing centers using traditional practices to tend to the “soul wounds” of colonialism. This ethnographic work follows the rehabilitation of Mosoq Pakari Sumaq Kawsay/A New Dawn for Good Living (MPSK), a healing center run by Indigenous Runa (Quechua) women outside the city of Cusco, Peru. The center is dedicated to helping Runa women heal from illnesses related to their enforced sterilization. Women’s illnesses, and the strategies used to heal them, point to the delicate socionatural balance undergirding health and wellbeing in Runa worlds. I contend that the illnesses faced by affected women, such as debilidad (Spa., exhaustion, a loss of fuerza, or vital energy) and mancharisqa (Spa., susto or soul loss) are the embodiment of settler colonial violence. Developing a “cosmopolitics of health,” I argue that the colonization of Runa women’s bodies threatens the wellbeing of their socionatural worlds or ayllus: (Que.,) the more-than-human communities of humans, plants, animals, ancestors, and earth beings (like mountains, rivers, and lakes) that are co-created through reciprocal relations of care (Que., ayni). The health and wellbeing of the ayllu as a “shared body” is ecosocial and rests on the balance of social and ecological relations. Thus, treating women’s illnesses using traditional means on formerly dispossessed lands not only helps women, but also helps heal the ayllu and power Runa futures. I argue that MPSK is an engine of “radical resurgence”: the creation of Indigenous futures, in the present, using traditional ethics and practices. Runa women are at the heart of radical resurgence at MPSK. By forging spaces of “survivance” like the healing center, women help power Runa futures through the intergenerational transfer of traditional ecological and medical knowledges and ethical systems, including gender complementarity as operationalized through Runa cosmological principles of mutuality and interdependence.Doctor of Philosoph

Mechanical properties of Hysol EA-9394 structural adhesive

Dextor`s Hysol EA-9394 is a room temperature curable paste adhesive representative of the adhesives used in wind turbine blade joints. A mechanical testing program has been performed to characterize this adhesive. Tension, compression stress relaxation, flexural, butt tensile, and fracture toughness test results are reported

Revueltas y presión impositiva en el espacio peruano, 1691-1790

Editada en la Fundación SEPIEl artículo presenta un análisis de la evolución de la presión fiscal en el Espacio Peruano entre 1691 y 1790 y su relación con las revueltas andinas, tomando los datos de las Cajas Reales y una estimación del producto, se calculó la recaudación fiscal y la presión impositiva. La primera conclusión extraída es que el incremento de los ingresos impositivos se originó mayoritariamente en las reformas fiscales. Confrontando estos datos con las revueltas andinas del siglo XVIII, el argumento fundamental de este trabajo es que las causas de las mismas se encuentran principalmente en el incremento de la presión fiscal.The article focuses on an analysis of the evolution of tax burden in the Peruvian region between 1691 and 1790 and its relationship with local revolts. Tax income and tax burden have been calculated on the basis of data collected from Cajas Reales (colonial tax revenue offices) and an estimate of the product. XVIII Century revolts appear to be consequence of the continuous increase in the tax burden.Publicad

Materials-based process tolerances for neutron generator encapsulation.

Variations in the neutron generator encapsulation process can affect functionality. However, instead of following the historical path in which the effects of process variations are assessed directly through functional tests, this study examines how material properties key to generator functionality correlate with process variations. The results of this type of investigation will be applicable to all generators and can provide insight on the most profitable paths to process and material improvements. Surprisingly, the results at this point imply that the process is quite robust, and many of the current process tolerances are perhaps overly restrictive. The good news lies in the fact that our current process ensures reproducible material properties. The bad new lies in the fact that it would be difficult to solve functional problems by changes in the process

Metabolic Rift or Metabolic Shift? Dialectics, Nature, and the World-Historical Method

Abstract In the flowering of Red-Green Thought over the past two decades, metabolic rift thinking is surely one of its most colorful varieties. The metabolic rift has captured the imagination of critical environmental scholars, becoming a shorthand for capitalism’s troubled relations in the web of life. This article pursues an entwined critique and reconstruction: of metabolic rift thinking and the possibilities for a post-Cartesian perspective on historical change, the world-ecology conversation. Far from dismissing metabolic rift thinking, my intention is to affirm its dialectical core. At stake is not merely the mode of explanation within environmental sociology. The impasse of metabolic rift thinking is suggestive of wider problems across the environmental social sciences, now confronted by a double challenge. One of course is the widespread—and reasonable—sense of urgency to evolve modes of thought appropriate to an era of deepening biospheric instability. The second is the widely recognized—but inadequately internalized—understanding that humans are part of nature

Feminist assemblages : Peruvian feminisms, forced sterilization, and paradox of rights in Fujimori's Peru

How does it come to pass that the rollout of a women’s rights regime becomes a condition for the violation of women’s rights? This thesis begins with the rollout of the PNSRPF 1996-2000 (a family planning program), as part of a larger women’s rights campaign in Fujimori’s Peru, and the forced sterilization of upwards of 10,000 campesina women. I examine the historic memory of the Peruvian feminist movement for factors that led to the vulnerabilization of campesinas in a women’s rights campaign. The feminist movement was made up of three assemblages concentrated around reproductive and sexual rights, critical human rights, and civil and political rights. However, only the critical rights paradigms was able to contend with the intersectional identity of campesinas and their inclusive exclusion as citizens. The other two assemblages assumed they were protecting “all women” or “all Peruvians,” leaving campesinas to fall into the lacunae created by the siloization of rights paradigms

Coefficients of Association Analogous to Pearson's r for nonparametric Statistics

The rz and rp coefficients of association are discussed. Both coefficients, like Pearson's r, are based on a z/z max framework. They yield coefficients directly comparable for all levels of measurement being based on an obtained/maximum departure from independence in z units interpretation. The r z coefficient can be applied to any nonparametric test statistic in which a normal approximation equation is appropriate. The rp coefficient is applicable to any nonparametric test statistic in which exact probabilities are known.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Introduction: Shakespeare's public spheres

Habermas’ sense of a “cultural Public Sphere” is a notoriously complex term and, when applied to Early Modern cultures, needs careful definition. This essay both introduces the variety of methods by which we might approach playtexts with a view to their public – auditory – impact and contributes to a debate about an audience's understanding of Shakespeare's plays. By selecting two words and their spread of use in one play, Twelfth Night, we might appreciate the potential for meaningful ambiguity latent in how we hear the language of live performance. If we search for how certain terms (in this case, the cluster of semes derived from repetitions of “fancy” and “play”), we might find at times incompatible senses, yet we get near to appreciating the range of Early Modern dramatic language

Instability, investment, disasters, and demography: natural disasters and fertility in Italy (1820–1962) and Japan (1671–1965)

This article examines whether natural disasters affect fertility—a topic little explored but of policy importance given relevance to policies regarding disaster insurance, foreign aid, and the environment. The identification strategy uses historic regional data to exploit natural variation within each of two countries: one European country—Italy (1820–1962), and one Asian country—Japan (1671–1965). The choice of study settings allows consideration of Jones’ (The European miracle, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981) theory that preindustrial differences in income and population between Asia and Europe resulted from the fertility response to different environmental risk profiles. According to the results, short-run instability, particularly that arising from the natural environment, appears to be associated with a decrease in fertility—thereby suggesting that environmental shocks and economic volatility are associated with a decrease in investment in the population size of future generations. The results also show that, contrary to Jones’ (The European miracle, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981) theory, differences in fertility between Italy and Japan cannot be explained away by disaster proneness alone. Research on the effects of natural disasters may enable social scientists and environmentalists alike to better predict the potential effects of the increase in natural disasters that may result from global climate change