68 results in Publications & Writing
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61. Publications & Writing
Towards an integrated science of morality: Linking mind, society and culture
Publication by DPDF 2010 "Discrimination Studies" Fellow Rengin Firat and Chad Michael McPherson. This chapter constructs a sociological mantle for morality and the mind by specifying broad theoretical traditions in the sociological literature on structure, culture, and interact…
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62. Publications & Writing
Tragedy and the Economics of Providence in Richardson's Clarissa
Publication by DPDF 2010 "After Secularization: New Approaches to Religion and Modernity" Fellow Alex Eric Hernandez. The postscript to the 1751 edition of Clarissa provides Samuel Richardson's most definitive explication of what he was doing through the novel's unfashionably tr…
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63. Publications & Writing
Unauthorized immigration, securitization, and the making of Operation Wetback
Publication by DPDF 2007 "Rethinking Europe: Religion, Ethnicity, Nation" Fellow Avraham Astor. This paper integrates Agamben's concept of “bare life” with the Copenhagen School's concept of “securitization” to develop a framework for analyzing the elevation of immigrati…
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64. Publications & Writing
Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century
Publication by DPDF 2009 "Critical Agrarian Studies" Fellow William Okie. The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach growers, the story went, threw off the tyranny of King Cotton by pledgi…
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65. Publications & Writing
Western Soldiers and the Protection of Local Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Is a Nationalist Orientation in the Armed Forces Hindering Our Preparedness to Fight?
Publication by DPDF 2009 "State Violence" Fellow Daniel Blocq. Mandates for UN peacekeeping operations in Africa have become more robust since the delivery of the Brahimi Report in 2000. Contrary to before, soldiers are now unmistakably expected to use force to protect local civ…
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66. Publications & Writing
What Drives the Diffusion of Inclusionary Zoning?
Publication by Jenny Schuetz and DPDF 2007 "The Political Economy of Redistribution" Fellow Rachel Meltzer. Social scientists offer competing theories on what explains the policymaking process. These typically include economic rationalism, political competition or power struggle…
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67. Publications & Writing
'Where No X-man Has Gone Before!’ Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America
Publication by DPDF 2007 "Visual Culture" Fellow Ramzi Fawaz. Dismissed for decades as juvenile entertainment, comic books had by the early 1970s come of age as America's “native art”: taught on Ivy League campuses, studied by European scholars and filmmakers, and taken up a…
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68. Publications & Writing
Yoruba Ethnogenesis from Within
Authored by DPDF 2007 Black Atlantic Studies co-director, Andrew Apter. It is an anthropological truism that ethnic identity is “other”-oriented, such that who we are rests on who we are not. Within this vein, the development of Yoruba identity in the late nineteenth century…


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