July 1st, 2008

Interrogating Development: State, Displacement and Popular Resistance in North East India

posted by Debra Yoo
Hussain, Monirul. Los Angles, New Delhi, Singapore and London: Sage Publications, 2008.

Written by South Asia Regional Fellowship recipient Monirul Hussain, Interrogating Development focuses on development-induced displacement . . .

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June 19th, 2008

Soft Power Superpowers: Cultural and National Assets of Japan and the United States

posted by Debra Yoo
Watanabe, Yasushi and David L. McConnell, eds. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008.

Co-edited by Abe Fellow Watanabe Yasushi, Soft Power Superpowers analyzes the soft power assets of the United States and Japan, and how they contributed to one of the most successful, if unlikely, bilateral relationships of the twentieth century . . .

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June 19th, 2008

Interdisciplinary Research: Case Studies from Health and Social Science

posted by Debra Yoo
Kessel, Frank, Patricia L. Rosenfield, and Norman B. Anderson, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

This newly updated and revised edition of Interdisciplinary Research is a practical guide to the most effective avenues for collaborative and integrative research in the social, behavioral, and bio-medical sciences . . .

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May 14th, 2008

Darfur: A New History of a Long War (revised and updated)

posted by Debra Yoo
Flint, Julie, and Alex de Waal. London: Zed Books, 2008.

Co-written by Program Director Alex de Waal, this book is the definitive guide to Darfur. Newly updated and hugely expanded . . .

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May 2nd, 2008

The Medieval Prison: A Social History

posted by Debra Yoo
Geltner, Guy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Written by 2004 IDRF Fellow Guy Geltner, The Medieval Prison rewrites penal history and reveals that medieval society did not have a “persecuting mentality” . . .

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April 29th, 2008

Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference

posted by Debra Yoo
Minow, Martha, Richard A. Shweder, and Hazel Rose Markus. New York: Russell Sage, 2008.

The result of an SSRC Working Group on “Law and Culture,” Just Schools examines schools with widely divergent methods of fostering equality . . .

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April 11th, 2008

Visualizing Social Science: Photographs by Rachel Tanur

posted by Debra Yoo
Tanur, Judith, ed. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2008.


Rachel Dorothy Tanur (1958—2002) was not trained as a social scientist, but she cared deeply about people and their lives . . .

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December 31st, 2007

Structures of Participation in Digital Culture

posted by Debra Yoo
Karaganis, Joe, ed. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007.

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Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, edited by SSRC Program Director Joe Karaganis, explores digital technologies that are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks . . .

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December 21st, 2007

Researching Migration: Stories from the Field

posted by Debra Yoo
DeSipio, Louis, Manuel Garcia y Griego, and Sherri Kossoudji, eds. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007.

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An SSRC Book of essays by Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows designed to offer general lessons on the selection , combination, and use of various quantitative and qualitative research methods.

In this web-publication, fellows of the International Migration Program reflect upon their experience conducting research . . .

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December 20th, 2007

Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future

posted by Debra Yoo
Huang, Yibing. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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This book by 1997 IDRF Fellow Yibing Huang offers a fresh and nuanced perspective into contemporary Chinese literature . . .

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