Fires on the Border: The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera

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« 281 » Index Abejas, Las, 185 abjection: dispossession as effect of, 142–44, 198–99; and embodiment, 128–31; of feminized bodies, 130–31, 133, 134–35, 150; identity formation and, 125, 128–31; mechanism of, 129–31; racial, 248n15; renarrating scripts of, 134, 135, 144 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 38 Acosta, Rosario, 23 activist scholarship, 76–77 ACT UP, 52–53, 145 Adorno, Theodor, 39, 208 Advocate (gay magazine), 107 affect(s): autonomy of, 42–43, 45; and capitalism, 58, 62, 63; as conveyed through signs, 49–50; in culture theory, 66; Damasio’s theory of, 40–42; as essence of radical investment , 55–56; feminist approach to, xviii, 38–39; historical and materialist approach to, xviii, 39, 57–58, 214; and labor of production and care, xviii–xix; as last colony of capital, 37–40; negative, 48; as ontological and epistemological, 57; quantum logic of indeterminacy, 42, 43–44, 45; recent work on, 231n2; semi­ autonomy of, 46; in social movement research, 52, 239n37; Spinoza’s materialist formulation of, 207–8; transmission of, 47–48, 52. See also materiality of affect affect-culture: and bioderegulation, 154, 156–57, 160–74, 176; in capitalism’s value systems, 62; defined, 50; and disciplining of subjects, 50–52; and embodied sensations, 126, 127; felt dimension of, 241n62; as ideology, 63–64; and labels, 142; and marriage and weddings, 159; materiality of, 50, 62–63; mattering maps of, 65; mediating role of, 58, 66–67; of orga­ nizing, xii–xviii, 52–56, 67; and ontology and epistemology, 201; and open secrets (see open secrets); reasons it matters, 66–68; sexual identity and, xxiv, 65–66; as site of struggle, 45; and social reproduction, 59; unstable signifying chains and narratives of, 50; use of term, 46; and utopian aspiration, 209–10; values binding capital to, xiv, xvii. See also love in the common affective capacities, 44, 157, 205, 212; basic needs and, 58; capital’s incomplete harvesting of, xx; labels channeling, 142; mind–body circuit drawing upon, 215; right to una vida digna, xx–xxi; sexuality and, 100, 157; as surplus, 54, 213, 214. See also love in the common affective economies, 50, 243n17 affective epistemology of witnessing, 70–79 affective expertise, 63 affective investments, 48–49, 55, 63–64 affective labor, 53–56 “Affective Labor” (Hardt), 62 affective mapping, 46; bearing witness and, 78–79; conducting one’s own, 80; rituals as part of, 92 « 282 » Index Affective Mapping (Flatley), 243n17 affective reorientation of organizers, 16–17 affective turn in research, 37–40 affective value, 63 affect theory, xxiii; of Ahmed, 49–50; of Brennan, 47–48, 71; as component of organized resistance, 53–56; of Damasio , 40–42, 45, 47, 48; of Flatley, 46; of Grossberg, 48–49; of Massumi, 42–45, 47, 54; mind–body dichotomy and, 40–45; of Reddy, 50–52; of Tompkins, 45–46 affirmation: of bearing witness, 70, 93–94; ritual of, 93–94 affirmative politics, 207–8, 257n2 Agamben, Giorgio: on biopolitics, 197–98; depiction of testimonial witnessing , 72 Agreement on North American Environmental Cooperation, 14 agriculture, 185, 254n7 Ahmed, Sarah, 39; affect theory of, 49–50; on alienation and revolutionary consciousness, 209–10 AIDS, 115, 145; activism, 209; Levi Strauss as leader in AIDS advocacy, 161–62, 164 AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), 52–53, 145 alienation, 209–10 Almaguer, Tomás, 104 Almaráz, 81 anencephaly, 14 anthropology, 75–76 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 38, 67 APPO (Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca), 178 Armstrong, Pat and Hugh, 59 Army of National Liberation, 182 assembly-for-export model, 7, 8. See also maquiladora sector assimilation of gays into U.S. mainstream , 158–60, 163, 164, 170–71 attention labor, 60 autonomy: of affect, 42–43, 45; feminismo comunitario, 201–2, 256n40; indige­ nous women’s broadened notion of, 196; as part of process of political decentralization , 194; as political stance, 179, 180, 193–97; in San Andrés Accords , 194; shift of Zapatista/worker focus onto sustaining, 182–83; Zapatista concept of, 202 “Autonomy of Affect, The” (Massumi), 42 Badgett, M. V. Lee, 158 Baird, Peter, 3 balance: as structure of feeling homo­ sexual, 118 Balibar, Étienne, 260 Balli, Cecilia, 24 bare life, 197–98, 199, 201, 208 bearing witness, xxiii, 69–96; affective epistemology of witnessing, 70–79; affirmation of, 70, 93–94; charge and chain of witness, 69–70; for the commons, xxvi (see also love in the common); different versions of, xvii; disturbance zone in, 90–92; Latin American tradition...