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71. Publications & Writing
Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in India
…1997 IDRF Fellow William Mazzarella traces the rise in India during the 1980s of mass consumption as a self-consciously sensuous challenge to the austerities of state-led developmentalism. An examination of the complex cultural politics of mass consumerism in a globalized marketp…
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72. Publications & Writing
Social Democracy Inside Out: Government Partisanship, Insiders, and Outsiders in Industrialized Democracies
It is a commonly held assumption that social democratic governments will defend the interests of labor. In Social Democracy Inside Out, 1999 IDRF Fellow David Rueda challenges that idea and the entrenched interpretations of the comparative political economy of industrialized demo…
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73. Publications & Writing
Social Protection and the Market in Latin America: The Transformation of Social Security Institutions
Written by 1998 IDRF Fellow Sarah Brooks, this span> span=""> />book provides a theoretical and empirical account of when and to what degree governments privatize national old-age pension systems. Quantitative cross-national analysis simulates the degree of pension privatization…
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74. Publications & Writing
Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front
Soviet Women in Combat explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it into the twentieth-century history of women, war, and violence. The book narrates a story about a cohort of Soviet y…
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75. Publications & Writing
Spiritual Economies: Islam, Globalization, and the Afterlife of Development
In Europe and North America, Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? 2003 IDRF Fellow Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and…
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76. Publications & Writing
Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge: The Soviet Space Race with Apollo
First published by NASA in 2000 as Challenge to Apollo, these two volumes are the first comprehensive history of the Soviet-manned space programs covering a period of thirty years, from the end of World War II, when the Soviets captured German rocket technology, to the collapse o…
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77. Publications & Writing
Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China
Through an interesting and original mix of songs, poems, stele inscriptions, folklore, and oral accounts of the famine from Shanxi Province, 2000 IDRF Fellow Edgerton-Tarpley examines cultural responses to trauma and the more social side of a national tragedy. Occurring at a time…
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78. Publications & Writing
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba And the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery
In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. In this volume, 1998 IDRF Fellow Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis o…
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79. Publications & Writing
The Children of Fate: Families, Class, and the State in Chile, 1800-1930
In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. 1999 IDRF Fellow Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing families bot…
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80. Publications & Writing
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are s…
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