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California Desert Communities: Community Science in the Salton Sea

This is a collection of community science in the Salton Sea in California Desert Communities.

This is a collection of Lithium Valley in california Desert Communities.

This is a collection of infrastructure in California Desert Communities.

This is a collection of mural country in California Desert Communities.

This is a collection of organizations and agencies in California Desert Communities.

This is a collection of concepts in play in California Desert Communities.

This is a collection of EcoGovLab in the field in California Desert Communities.

This is a collection on roles and careers in Comite Civico de Valle in California Desert Communities.

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"One might be tempted to see this as a medically virtuous circle, ... but one has to be conscious that it institutes the body as the immigrant's site of ultimate truth."
"These represent two contrasting approaches to the doctor's civic responsibility. However contradictory, the differing positions nevertheless reveal, each in its own way, how these professionals situated their medical expert opinion in a political space where the deontological points of reference had becommed blurred."
"...the organic importance of the body, is, basically, nothing more than the importance of the body as organ, or in other words, first as labor power, and only then as a form of self-presentation."
"....era in which demand for foreign labor made immigration a social necessity seems now so remote, the immigrant's body was entirely legitimized through its function as an instrument of production, the performance of which was interrupted by illness or accident."