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33 Adapted from Lydia Pulsipher’s field notes, 1992–2000 (Olivia and Tanya), and Alex Pulsipher’s field notes, 1999–2008 (Setiya).
52 Adapted from Lydia Pulsipher’s field notes in Honolulu, 1995.
61 Adapted from Jesse McKinley, “Drought Adds to Hardships in California,” New York Times, February 21, 2009; David Leonhardt, “Job Losses Show Breadth of Recession,” New York Times, March 3, 2009; and Catherine Rampell, “As Layoffs Surge, Women May Pass Men in Job Force,” New York Times, February 5, 2009; Alissa Figueroa, PBS Newshour, “In Calif. Town, Prison May Fix One Problem, but Create Another,” May 5, 2011, at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues-jan-june11-mendota_05-05/.
82 Adapted from NPR Staff, All Things Considered, “What Recession? It’s Boom Time for Nebraska Farms,” February 25, 2011, at http://tinyurl.com/6jyljoa.
111 Alex Pulsipher’s field notes; Amazon Watch, 2006; Oxfam America, 2005; Juan Forero, “Rain Forest Residents, Texaco Face Off In Ecuador,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, April 30, 2009, at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103233560; Gonzalo Solano, “Damages in Chevron Ecuador Suit Jump Billions,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 2010, at http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Damages-in-Chevron-Ecuador-suit-jump-billions-3173946.php; Patrick Radden Keefe, “Reversal of Fortune,” New Yorker, January 9, 2012, pp. 38–49; Reuters, “Ecuador: Villagers Try Again to Hold Chevron to $18bn Ruling,” June 29, 2012, at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ecuador-villagers-try-again-to-hold-chevron-to-18bn-ruling-7897095.html.
129 NPR reports by John Idste, August 14, 2001, and August 16 and 25, 2003, and by Gary Hadden, August 27, 2003; David Bacon, “Anti-China Campaign Hides Maquiladora Wage Cuts,” ZNet, February 3, 2003, at http://zcomm.org/znetarticle/anti-china-campaign-hides-maquiladora-wage-cuts-by-david-bacon; Maquila Portal, April 2006, at http://www.maquilaportal.com/cgi-bin/public/index.pl; “How Rising Wages Are Changing the Game in China,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 26, 2006, at http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-03-26/how-rising-wages-are-changing-the-game-in-china; Pete Engardio, “So Much for the Cheap ‘China Price,’” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 4, 2009, at http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_24/b4135054963557.htm; “Avalanche of Chinese Investment in Mexico,” Maquila Portal, December 1, 2011, at http://www.maquilaportal.com/index.php?blog/show/Avalanche-of-Chinese-investment-in-Mexico.html; Gustavo de Lima Palhares and Higor Uzzun Sales, “An Economic Analysis of the Role of Foreign Investments in Brazil,” April 18, 2012, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, at http://www.coha.org/an-economic-analysis-of-the-role-of-foreign-investments-in-brazil.
130 “Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2011,” UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, April 16, 2012, p. 37, at http://www.cepal.org/publicaciones/xml/2/46572/2012-182-liei-web.pdf; Alexei Barrioneuvo, “China’s Interest in Farmland Makes Brazil Uneasy,” New York Times, May 26, 2011, at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/world/americas/27brazil.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0; Juan Forero, “Latin America: Once A Risky Bet, Now EU’s Hero?” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, December 5, 2011, at http://www.npr.org/2011/12/05/143131926/once-a-risky-bet-latin-america-tapped-to-aid-eurozone.
134 Adapted from Andrew Wheat, “Toxic Bananas,” Multinational Monitor 17: 6–7, September 1996 (updated 2007); David Magney, “Costa Rican Bananas,” David Magney Environmental Consulting, December 16, 2005 (updated July 9, 2007), at http://www.magney.org/photofiles/CostaRica-Bananas1.htm.
142 Lydia Pulsipher’s field notes on Brazil, updated with the help of John Mueller, Fortaleza, Brazil, 2006.
153 Conversations with geographer Margareta Lelea, a Romanian specialist, post-doctoral researcher, Departments of Entomology and Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis; Doreen Carvajal and Stephen Castle, “A U.S. Hog Giant Transforms Eastern Europe,” New York Times, May 5, 2009, at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/business/global/06smithfield.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar.
159 Adapted from Rob Gifford, “Gardeners Brighten London Under Cover of Dark,” Morning Edition, National Public Radio, May 15, 2006, at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5404229.
175 Lydia Pulsipher’s conversations with Vera Kuzmic and Dusan Kramberger, 1993–2012.
195 Ellen Barry and Andrew E. Kramer, “In Biting Cold, Protesters Pack the Center of Moscow,” New York Times, February 4, 2012, at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/world/europe/tens-of-thousands-protest-putin-in-moscow-russia.html?pagewanted=all; Simon Saradzhyan and Nabi Abdullaev, “Putin Election Victory Doesn’t Pave an Easy Path Through His Third Presidential Term,” Christian Science Monitor, March 5, 2012, at http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/0305/Putin-election-victory-doesn-t-pave-an-easy-path-through-his-third-presidential-term; Ellen Barry and Michael Schwirtz, “After Election, Putin Faces Challenges to Legitimacy,” New York Times, March 5, 2012, at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/observers-detail-flaws-in-russian-election.html?pagewanted=all; Michael Schwirtz, “Fear of Return to ’90s Hardship Fuels Support for Putin,” New York Times, March 3, 2012, at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/world/europe/in-russia-vote-fear-of-hardship-fuels-putin-support.html?pagewanted=all; Amanda Walker, “Last Anti-Putin Rally Before Russian Election,” Sky News, February 26, 2012, at http://news.sky.com/story/929127/last-anti-putin-rally-before-russian-election.
202 “Shrinking Aral Sea,” NASA Earth Observatory, August 25, 2000, at http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/aral_sea.php; “Central Asia: Uzbekistan,” World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/uz.html; “Cotton Fact Sheet: Uzbekistan,” ICAC, at http://www.icac.org/econ_stats/country_fact_sheets/fact_sheet_uzbekistan_2011.pdf.
219 “2011 World Population Data Sheet,” Population Reference Bureau, at http://www.prb.org/pdf11/2011population-data-sheet_eng.pdf; Timothy Heleniak, “Russia’s Demographic Decline Continues,” Population Reference Bureau, June 2002, at http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/RussiasDemographicDeclineContinues.aspx; “Half of All Premature Deaths of Russian Adults Down to Alcohol,” University of Oxford, June 26, 2009, at http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/090626.html.
226 “Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development,” Human Development Report 2009, United Nations Development Program, at http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-report-2009.
234 Mona Eltahawy, “Why Do They Hate Us?” Foreign Policy, April 23, 2012, at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/23/why_do_they_hate_us; Allison Good, “Debating the War on Women,” Foreign Policy, April 24, 2012, at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/24/debating_the_war_on_women; “Talk to Al Jazeera: Why Arab Women Still ‘Have No Voice’,” at http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/talktojazeera/2012/04/201242111373249723.html.
239 A. M. MacDonald, H. C. Bonsor, B. E. O. Dochartaigh, and R. G. Taylor, “Quantitative Maps of Groundwater Resources in Africa,” Environmental Research Letters, April 19, 2012, at http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/2/024009/pdf/1748-9326_7_2_024009.pdf.
277 Adapted from “Juliana Rotich—This Is What I See! Crowdsourced Crisis Mapping in Real Time,” 99 Faces, March 17, 2011, at http://99faces.tv/julianarotich/; Ushahidi Downloads, at http://download.ushahidi.com/; “Africa: The Next Chapter,” TED Radio Hour, National Public Radio, at http://www.npr.org/2012/06/29/155904209/africa-the-next-chapter.
282 Adapted from “Silas Kpanan’Ayoung Siakor: A Voice for the Forest and Its People,” Goldman Environmental Prize, at http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/442; Scott Simon, “Refl ections of a Liberian Environmental Activist,” Weekend Edition Saturday, National Public Radio, April 29, 2006, at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5370987; author’s personal communication with Siakor, September 2006.
310 James Fenske, “African Polygamy: Past and Present,” February 15, 2012, at https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CSAE2012&paper_id=115.
319 Adapted from “Modi Goes on Fast over Narmada Dam,” India eNews, April 16, 2006; Rahul Kumar, “Medha Patkar Ends Fast After Court Order on Rehabilitation,” One World South Asia.
330 Lydia and Alex Pulsipher’s field notes, Nilgiri Hills, June 2000; Government of Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Human Development Report (Delhi: Social Sciences Press, 2003), at http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/fi les/tn_nhdr_2003.pdf.
343 Beth Roy, Some Trouble with Cows—Making Sense of Social Confl ict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), pp. 18–19.
357 Internews Afghanistan, March 2008, at http://www.internews.org/bulletin/afghanistan/Afghan_200803.html; Maria Fantappie and Brittany Tanasa, “Fearless Women Use Radio to Make Ripples of Change in Herat, Afghanistan,” September 7, 2011, at http://cima.ned.org/fearless-women-use-radio-make-ripples-change-herat-afghanistan.
363 Adapted from Peter S. Goodman, “In China’s Cities, a Turn from Factories,” Washington Post, September 25, 2004, at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48818-2004Sep24.html; Louisa Lim, “The End of Agriculture in China,” Reporter’s Notebook, National Public Radio, May 19, 2006, at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5411325; background information from Kathy Chen, “BoomTown Bound,” Wall Street Journal, October 29, 1996, p. A6; “Life Lessons,” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 1997.
369 Adapted from Maria Siow, “Desertification: One of the Challenges Faced by China,” Asia Pacific News, October 29, 2009, at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/eastasia/view/1014326/1/.html.
393 Paul Wiseman, “Chinese Factories Struggle to Hire,” USA Today, April 11, 2005, at http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2005-04-11-china-labor_x.htm; Louisa Lim, “The End of Agriculture in China,” Reporter’s Notebook, National Public Radio, May 17, 2006, at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5411325; Mei Fong, “A Chinese Puzzle: Surprising Shortage of Workers Forces Factories to Add Perks; Pressures on Pay—and Prices,” Wall Street Journal, August 16, 2004, p. B1; David Barboza, “Labor Shortage in China May Lead to Trade Shift,” New York Times, April 3, 2006, Business Section, p. 1, at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/business/03labor.html?pagewanted=all; Qiu Quanlin, “Labor Shortage Hinders Guangdong Factories,” China Daily, August 25, 2009, at http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-08/25/content_8612599.htm; Nina Ying Sun, “Labor Shortage Returns to China,” Plastics News, August 10, 2009, at http://www.pnchina.com/en/Detail.aspx?id=3831&cat=0; “Major Foreign Holders of Treasury Securities (in Billions of Dollars) Holdings 1/ At End of Period,” Data and Charts Center, U.S. Department of the Treasury, at http://www.treasury.gov/ticdata/Publish/mfh.txt; “The Biggest Holders of US Government Debt,” CNBC Explains, at http://www.cnbc.com/id/29880401/The_Biggest_Holders_of_US_Government_Debt.
407 Adapted from the Borneo Wire, Jessica Lawrence, ed., Spring 2006, at http://borneoproject.org/article.php?id=623; “Community Stops Illegal Logging and Bulldozing Towards Protected Rainforests,” Jessica Lawrence, ed., Borneo Wire, Fall 2006, at http://borneoproject.org/article.php?list=type&type=39; Mark Bujang, “A Community Initiative: Mapping Dayak’s Customary Lands in Sarawak,” presented at the Regional Community Mapping Network Workshop, November 8–10, 2004, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines; Julia Zappei, “Malaysia Highest Court Affi rms Tribes’ Land Rights,” Associated Press, May 10, 2009, at http://borneoproject.org/article.php?id=762; “US Announces Its Support of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), December 16, 2010,” International Forum on Globalization, at http://ifg.org/programs/indig/USUNDRIP.html; video of deforestation in Indonesian Borneo, at http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0326-muaratae-video.html.
428 The fieldwork of Karl Russell Kirby, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, 2010.
434 Adapted from notes by Kirsty Vincin, an Australian teacher in Hong Kong, November 17, 2009, and “The Filipina Sisterhood: An Anthropology of Happiness,” Economist, December 20, 2001, at http://www.economist.com/node/883909.
437 Likhaan Center for Women’s Health, 2010, at http://www.likhaan.org/; Carlos H. Conde, “Bill to Increase Access to Contraception Is Dividing Filipinos,” New York Times, October 25, 2009, at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/world/asia/26iht-phils.html.
440 Adapted from personal communications with anthropologist Jennifer W. Nourse, University of Richmond, a specialist in Southeast Asia, 2010; Walter Williams, Javanese Lives (Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991), pp. 128–134.
443 Adapted from the field notes of Alex Pulsipher and Debbi Hempel, 2000; coverage of the HIV-AIDS conference in Thailand, July 11–16, 2004, by the Kaiser Family Foundation; “Life as a Thai Sex Worker,” BBC News, February 22, 2007, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6360603.stm.
448–449 Adapted from audio segments and articles written by Brian Reed for National Public Radio, “Preparing for Sea Level Rise, Islanders Leave Home,” at http://www.npr.org/2011/02/17/133681251/preparing-for-sea-level-rise-islanders-leave-home; “Could People from Kiribati Be ‘Climate Change Refugees?’” February 17, 2011, at http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/02/17/133848076/could-people-from-kiribati-be-climate-change-refugees; “Kiribati Mulls Fiji Land Purchase in Battle Against the Sea,” BBC News Asia, March 8, 2012, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17295862.