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581. 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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582. Publications & Writing
Ten Universities, with Plans for Informing Public Understanding of Islam, Win New SSRC Grant
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583. Publications & Writing
Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts
A critical question for diplomats, practitioners of conflict-resolution, and scholars is how conflicts can be brought to an end early, before more blood is shed, money squandered, or creative opportunities lost. Perhaps we might extract and devise policies that optimize the chanc…
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584. Publications & Writing
Textual Desert - Emotional Oasis: An Unconvential Confessional Dialogue on Field Experience
Authored by DPDF 2012 Ecological History co-director, Stevan Harrell .
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585. 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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586. Publications & Writing
The Act of Collaborative Creation and the Art of Integrative Creativity: Originality, Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity
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587. Publications & Writing
The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West
In The Ambivalent Consumer, Abe Fellows Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan of the University of Texas, Austin bring together an array of scholars who explore the ambivalence provoked by the global spread of "American" consumer culture. The first comparative volume to examin…
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588. Publications & Writing
The Arab Spring Uncoiled
Authored by DPDF 2008 Muslim Modernities Research Director, Charles Kurzman. If this special issue on Middle East protest had been published two years ago, it probably would have focused more on accounting for the failure of opposition movements than accountting for their success…
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589. Publications & Writing
The Art of Writing Proposals
Writing proposals for research funding is a peculiar facet of North American academic culture, and as with all things cultural, its attributes rise only partly into public consciousness. A proposal's overt function is to persuade a committee of scholars that the project shines wi…
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590. Publications & Writing
The Black Maria: film studio, film technology (cinema and the history of technology)
Publication by DPDF 2007 "Visual Culture" Fellow Brian Jacobson.
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