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  • 611. 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…

    Contributors Sheldon Garon (Editor), Patricia Maclachlan (Editor) Publisher Cornell University Press, 2006

  • 612. 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…

    Author Kurzman, Charles Publisher San Diego State University, 2012

  • 613. 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…

    Contributors Pzreworski, Adam, Salomon, Frank Publisher Social Science Research Council, 1995 Read online Download PDF

  • 614. Publications & Writing

    The Black Maria: film studio, film technology (cinema and the history of technology)

    Publication by DPDF 2007 "Visual Culture" Fellow Brian Jacobson.

    Author Jacobson, Brian Publisher Taylor & Francis, 2011

  • 615. Publications & Writing

    The Challenges and Rewards of International Research and Training - Children of Immigrants in Schools

    Video interviews examining some of the difficulties and advantages of international collaborative and comparative research encountered by researchers while working on the Children of Immigrants in Schools Project. http://www.ssrc.org/programs/pages/children-of-immigrants-in-schoo…

  • 616. 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…

    Publisher Duke University Press, 2009

  • 617. Publications & Writing

    The Coming Elections in Zimbabwe: Hysterical Headlines and Happy Losers

    Zimbabwe’s Government of National Unity (GNU) was formed three and a half years ago, a month after Barack Obama was sworn in. It is difficult to reach a thumbs up or down appraisal of the GNU before its final chapter is written. The brutal election of 2008 that preceded the GNU…

    Author Andrew Iliff Published In African Futures

  • 618. Publications & Writing

    The Complex Wars of the Congo: Towards a New Analytic Approach

    Author Carayannis, Tatiana

  • 619. Publications & Writing

    The Congo: A Revolution Deferred

    In the run-up to last November’s presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cassandras were easy to find on the streets of Kinshasa. “Ça va péter,” a parliamentarian told me, “It’s going to blow up.” It wasn’t hard to see why. Both the incumbe…

    Author Jason Stearns Published In African Futures

  • 620. Publications & Writing

    The Cork City flood of November 2009: Lessons for flood risk management and climate change adaptation at the urban scale

    Publication by DPDF 2008 "Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change"James Jeffers. Flood hazards are a pressing challenge in several Irish and European cities and their impacts seem likely to intensify as climate change brings sea level rise, changes in storm patterns and…

    Author Jeffers, James M Publisher Taylor & Francis, 2011