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41. Publications & Writing
Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War
Publication by 2008 DPDF Muslim Modernities Fellow Sarah Elizabeth Parkinson. Research on violent mobilization broadly emphasizes who joins rebellions and why, but neglects to explain the timing or nature of participation. Support and logistical apparatuses play critical roles in…
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Peasant-farmer movements, third world peoples, and the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, 1999
Publication by 2009 DPDF "Critical Agrarian Studies" Research Director Marc Edelman. This article, based on interviews and documentary sources, examines the participation in the N30 anti-WTO protests of peasants and farmers and, more broadly, the dynamics of transnational protest…
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43. Publications & Writing
Provincializing Global Urbanism: A Manifesto
Publication by Eric Sheppard, 2011 DPDF "Provincializing Global Urbanism: Toward Multiple Urban Futures" Research Director Helga Leitner, and Anant Maringanti. Mainstream urban scholarship envisions urbanization as a global process that is best achieved via the worldwide applica…
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44. Publications & Writing
Putting America in Its Place
Publication by 2012 DPDF "Mediated Futures" Research Director Arvind Rajagopal. Rather than assume that media technology is inherently global in its form, we should ask how it came to be regarded as such. This essay argues that the historical origins of the media are specifically…
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45. Publications & Writing
'Reality must improve': The perversity of expertise and the belatedness of Indian development television
Authored by DPDF 2012 Mediated Futures Research Director, William Mazzarella. This essay argues against reducing the recent history of global television to an oversimplified transition between ‘statist’ and ‘consumerist’ dispensations. As apparently irreconcilable ideolog…
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46. Publications & Writing
Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, and Indigeneity in a Plurinational State
Publication edited by Nicole Fabricant and DPDF 2011 Global Indigenous Politics Research Director Bret Gustafson. The 2005 election of Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia marked a critical moment of transformation—a coca farmer and peasant union leader became the first in…
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47. Publications & Writing
Reproducing Dominion: Emotional Apprenticeship in the 4H Youth Livestock Program
Publication by DPDF 2008 "Animal Studies" Fellow Colter Ellis and Leslie Irvine. This paper examines young people's socialization into the doctrine known as “dominionism,” which justifies the use of animals in the service of human beings. Using qualitative research, it focuse…
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48. Publications & Writing
Soy, Cotton, and the Final Atlantic Forest Frontier
Publication by DPDF 2008 "Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change" Fellow Peter Richards.From 1945 to 2000, the extent of Paraguay's Atlantic Forest was reduced from 73,000 to 12,000 square kilometers. Deforestation rates were exceptionally high from the late 1960s throug…
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49. Publications & Writing
Spectral futures
Publication by 2011 DPDF Provincializing Global Urbanism: Toward Multiple Urban Futures Research Director Ananya Roy. This essay interrogates the concept of the city as a space of universal rights and collective futures. With a focus on how the urban poor are integrated into the…
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50. Publications & Writing
State and Stateless Violence in Somalia
Publication by DPDF 2009 "State Violence" Fellow Andrew Linke and Clionadh Raleigh. Violent conflict has engulfed much of Somalia for decades. Marked most dramatically by the fall of Mohamed Siad Barre’s dictatorship early in 1991, southern Somalia remains in an untenable s…


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