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191. Publications & Writing
For Next Steps in Congo, Listen to the Congolese
It’s difficult to make sense of the reactions of many Western governments and international actors to the disastrous elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on November 28, 2011. Initial responses from the United States and the European Union were muted, and Bel…
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"Forging a neoliberal knowledge elite (perspective) and restricted pluralism: The history of the Mont Pèlerin Society networks of intellectuals and think tanks"
…“Socially approved knowledge is the source of prestige and authority; it is also the home of public opinion. Only he is deemed to be an expert or a well-informed citizen who is socially approved as such. Having obtained this degree of prestige the expert’s or the well-informe…
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193. Publications & Writing
Forthcoming. Migration and the Sending Economy: A Disaggregated Rural Economy-Wide Analysis
The publisher, Taylor and Francis, did not grant permission to reproduce this article for public access. To buy this article please visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00220388.asp. This paper uses a small rural household survey in Mexico (2003) to examine the direct and…
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194. Publications & Writing
Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Post-Soviet Georgia
The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century changed how experts in post-Soviet nations--and globally--would treat the disease. As Free Market T…
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195. Publications & Writing
Frequencies
Produced in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council's work on spirituality, political engagement, and public life, and the result of a collaboration between The Immanent Frame and Killing the Buddha, Frequencies is an experiment in which a broad group of writers, sch…
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196. Publications & Writing
Friends Indeed?: The United Nations, Groups of Friends, and the Resolution of Conflict
Using a combination of both a scholarly eye and an insider’s perspective of the United Nations, CPPF Director Teresa Whitfield provides an overview of the types of groups and coalitions that have been actively engaged in issues of peace and security within the UN sphere and ide…
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197. Publications & Writing
From Affective to Aesthetic Economics: Globalization and the Commodification of Difference on French Idol
Publication by DPDF 2009 "Empires of Vision" Fellow Jill Campaiola-Veen. Hybridization scholars have shown that the implosion of culture in response to globalization has led nations to feel threatened and thus reclaim their cultural differences. Nouvelle Star, the French version…
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198. Publications & Writing
From disguised protectionism to rewarding regulation: The impact of trade-related labor standards in the Dominican Republic
Authored by DPDF 2009 Revitalizing Development Studies Research Director, Andrew Schrank. Policymakers in the Dominican Republic have responded to foreign pressure by rewriting their labor laws and revitalizing their labor ministry. What are the likely consequences? Is aggressive…
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199. Publications & Writing
Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy
Growing out of a workshop organized by the SSRC Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution, Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of…
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200. Publications & Writing
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)
…2001 IDRF Fellow Justin McDaniel’s Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and pre-modern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, McDaniel traces curricul…


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