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  • 141. Publications & Writing

    Dickinson's Animals & Anthropomorphism

    Publication by DPDF 2008 "Animal Studies" Fellow Aaron Shackelford. Dickinson's poems and letters include a menagerie of creatures. From her beloved dog Carlo to the birds flying through her garden, Dickinson's animals provide a rich opportunity to study her descriptions of exte…

    Author Shackelford, Aaron Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

  • 142. Publications & Writing

    Dictionary of the Social Sciences

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    Contributors Craig Calhoun (Editor), Joe Karaganis (Editor), Paul Price (Editor) Publisher Oxford University Press, 2002

  • 143. Publications & Writing

    Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm

    This book is the end product of a research working group in the SSRC's Information Technology and International Cooperation Program. Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually bo…

    Contributors Robert Latham (Editor), Saskia Sassen (Editor) Publisher Princeton University Press, 2005

  • 144. Publications & Writing

    Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine

    Title VIII Eurasia Program Post-Doctoral Award recipient Sarah Phillips examines the struggles of disabled persons in Ukraine and the other former Soviet states to secure their rights during the tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms of the last two decades. Through p…

    Author Phillips, Sarah Publisher Indiana University Press

  • 145. Publications & Writing

    Disarming the Past: Transitional Justice and Ex-Combatants

    Over the past twenty years, international donors have invested in large-scale disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs. In the same period there has been a proliferation of transitional justice measures to help render truth, justice, and reparations in the af…

    Contributors Ana Cutter Patel (Editor), Pablo de Greiff (Editor), Lars Waldorf (Editor) Publisher Social Science Research Council, 2010 Read online Download PDF

  • 146. Publications & Writing

    Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

    Government plays a critical role in mitigating individual and collective vulnerability to disaster. Through measures such as disaster relief, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation, public policy is central to making societies more resilient. However, the recent…

    Publisher Columbia University Press, 2010

  • 147. Publications & Writing

    Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora

    Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in US history. More than a million people were forced to relocate across all fifty states, and tens of thousands still remain displaced. Some are desperate to return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Oth…

    Contributors Lori Peek (Editor), Lynn Weber (Editor) Publisher University of Texas Press, 2012

  • 148. Publications & Writing

    Do International Migration and Remittances Reduce Poverty in Developing Countries?

    This study uses results from nationally-representative household surveys in 71 developing countries to analyze the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in the developing world.  Since international migration and remittances may be endogenous to poverty ou…

    Contributors Adams, Jr., Richard H, Page, John Read online Download PDF

  • 149. Publications & Writing

    Do Remittances Act Like Insurance? Evidence from a Natural Disaster in Jamaica (Working Paper)

    This paper examines whether remittances can insure households against income shocks, using a longitudinal household-level data set from Jamaica. The panel dataset includes remittance information as well as detailed self-reported information about damage incurred due to a major hu…

    Contributors Clarke, George R.G., Wallsten, Scott Read online Download PDF

  • 150. Publications & Writing

    Do Workers' Remittances Promote Financial Development?

    The authors use cross-country balance of payments data on workers' remittance flows to 99 developing countries from 1975-2003 to study the impact of remittances on financial sector development. This study examines whether remittances contribute to increasing the aggregate level o…

    Contributors Aggarwal, Reena, Demirguc-Kunt, Asli, Peria, Maria Soledad Martinez Publisher World Bank, 2006 Read online Download PDF