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1. Publications & Writing
A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia
In A Coincidence of Desires, 1997 IDRF Fellow Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality a…
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A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School
Burnout is common among doctors in the West, so one might assume that a medical career in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world, would place far greater strain on the idealism that drives many doctors. But, as A Heart for the Work makes clear, Malawian medical student…
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A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the rac…
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A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration
In A Nation of Emigrants, 2003 IDRF Fellow David Fitzgerald explores an interesting question: what do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new…
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Age in the Welfare State: The Origins of Social Spending on Pensioners, Workers, and Children
…1997 IDRF Fellow Julia Lynch’s book asks why some countries devote the lion’s share of their social policy resources to the elderly, while others have a more balanced repertoire of social spending. Far from being the outcome of demands for welfare spending by powerful age-bas…
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An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. 1999 IDRF Fellow Lara Deeb’s eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community…
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Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya: An Ambivalent Modernism
…1998 IDRF Fellow Brian McLaren’s book is about the construction of tourist experience in colonial Libya through representations produced by and for modern Italian society. Because it is considered as a complex cultural formation, architecture has a role in the construction of t…
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Assembling Women: The Feminization of Global Manufacturing
…1998 IDRF Fellow Teri Caraway challenges the notion that globalization has been beneficial in improving the lives of women workers by opening more employment opportunities. Despite the increase of women in the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inequalities at w…
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Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe (Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation)
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are increasingly expected to address environmental issues in their economic development lending. Yet the banks have been accused of failing to implement their own environmental policies, thereby contributing to environmental degradation in bo…
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Bengal in Global Concept History: Culturalism in the Age of Capital
Today people all over the globe invoke the concept of culture to make sense of their world, their social interactions, and themselves. But how did the culture concept become so ubiquitous? In this ambitious study, 2000 IDRF Fellow Andrew Sartori closely examines the history of po…
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