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AbstractThat white evangelicals form the political foundation of Trumpism is widely taken for granted. A contrary interpretation focuses on Christian nationalism: the view that the United States is, and should remain, a predominantly white Christian nation. Drawing on analysis of religious nationalisms in India and South Africa, this essay suggests how Christian nationalism can be seen as part of a contradictory hegemonic project, intimately linked with US imperialism and racial capitalism. The essay also reflects on the political challenges of the present moment.

The author draws on earlier research and recent data she collected locally to examine the position of petty rice producers in the Muda region of Malaysia. Although land concentration and landlessness are increasing, tiny holdings have proved remarkably resilient. The author explains their survival at a time of major changes in the organization of agricultural production through an analysis of the institutional arrangements governing labour deployment and access to resources with and among households. She shows how these mechanisms can both reflect and alter macro-economic and political forces. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

This conversation, transcribed from a conference in April 2002, is intended to illuminate current debates about the use and abuse of the embeddedness concept in economic sociology.

Intracellular free Ca 2+concentrations [Ca 2+] i; were measured in ovine anterior pituitary cells using the quin 2 technique. Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) increased, dopamine decreased and growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) had no detectable effect on [Ca 2+] i. Loading the cells with quin 2, at an intracellular concentration less than that used during calcium determination, reduced both basal growth hormone (GH) and (to a small extent) prolactin secretion. Loading cells with quin 2 also markedly reduced GHRH-stimulated GH secretion. However, TRH-stimulated prolactin secretion was 3-times basal irrespective of quin 2 loading. The results indicate that the use of quin 2 to measure [Ca 2+] iin some cell types may be complicated by actions of quin 2 on cellular function.

Summaries

Labour relations, forms of resistance, and class consciousness in the Muda region of Malaysia have become increasingly differentiated along gender lines: women have come to define and prosecute their interests as workers, whereas men continue to adopt a far more deferential stance vis-à-vis their employers. To explain these patterns, this article shows how struggles within the labour process intersect with those in the local community and the household, and how gender meanings shape the struggles on these interconnected sites. This gendered analysis of class formation calls for a major rethinking of James Scott's notion of 'everyday forms of peasant resistance'.