Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Fluid Dynamics -- 1. A Child's Day in Howa -- 2. The Political Economy and Ecology of Howa Village -- Part II. Social Reproduction -- 3. Children's Work and Play -- 4. Knowing Subjects/Abstracting Knowledge -- 5. Disrupted Landscapes of Production and Reproduction -- Part III. Displacements -- 6. New York Parallax -- or, You Can't Drive a Chevy through a Post-Fordist Landscape -- 7. Howa at the End of the Millennium -- Part IV. Topographies of Global Capitalism -- 8. The Strange Familiar -- 9. Negotiating the Recent Future -- Appendix: Children's Work -- Glossary: Colloquial Sudanese Arabic Terms -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.