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  • 691. Publications & Writing

    U.S.—South Africa Research and Training Collaborations

    Working paper on U.S.-South African Research and Training Collaborations, the most recent SSRC project related to knowledge production, research networks, and capacity-building in sub-Saharan Africa (see PDF).

    Publisher Social Science Research Council, 2004 Read online Download PDF

  • 692. Publications & Writing

    Unauthorized immigration, securitization, and the making of Operation Wetback

    Publication by DPDF 2007 "Rethinking Europe: Religion, Ethnicity, Nation" Fellow Avraham Astor. This paper integrates Agamben's concept of “bare life” with the Copenhagen School's concept of “securitization” to develop a framework for analyzing the elevation of immigrati…

    Author Astor, Avraham Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

  • 693. Publications & Writing

    Uncertain Honor: Modern Motherhood in an African Crisis

    In most countries, educated women have fewer children and have them later than uneducated women. In Uncertain Honor, 1997 IDRF Fellow Jennifer Johnson-Hanks argues that this demographic fact has social causes by offering a rich case study of contraception, abortion, and informal…

    Author Johnson-Hanks, Jennifer Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2006

  • 694. Publications & Writing

    Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

    Contributors Michael Burawoy (Editor), Katherine Verdery (Editor) Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999

  • 695. Publications & Writing

    Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century

    Publication by DPDF 2009 "Critical Agrarian Studies" Fellow William Okie. The Georgia peach boom around the turn of the twentieth century was often hailed as a successful experiment in diversification. Peach growers, the story went, threw off the tyranny of King Cotton by pledgi…

    Author Okie, William Thomas Publisher Agricultural History Society, 2011

  • 696. Publications & Writing

    Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds

    This graphic book is the result of a year spent interviewing people in four continents across the physical world, the Internet and the virtual world of Second Life about the evolution of Islam and cultural exploration within the digital culture. Download the book here or purchas…

    Contributors King, Rita J., Fouts, Joshua S. Publisher Dancing Ink Productions, 2009

  • 697. Publications & Writing

    Understanding Katrina Essay Forum

    Hurricane Katrina generated its own perfect storm of analyses about the crisis and what went wrong in the storm's immediate aftermath in terms of the response, or failure to respond. In the belief that the situation required a social science response, the SSRC organized an online…

    Contributors Alexander, David (Contributor), Bankoff, Greg (Contributor), Beggs, John J. (Contributor), Bytheway, Bill (Contributor), Clarke, Lee (Contributor), Cutter, Susan (Contributor), de Waal, Alex (Contributor), Dominguez, Virginia R. (Contributor), Dynes, Russell (Contributor), Enarson, Elaine (Contributor), Frickel, Scott (Contributor), Frymer, Paul (Contributor), Fussell, M. Elizabeth (Contributor), Gilman, Nils (Contributor), Graham, Stephen (Contributor), Haines, Valerie A. (Contributor), Hurlbert, Jeanne S. (Contributor), Jackson, Stephen (Contributor), Jasper, James M. (Contributor), Kaufman, Sarah (Contributor), Kendra, James (Contributor), Krause, Monika (Contributor), Lakoff, Andrew (Contributor), Lukes, Steven (Contributor), Mitchell, James K. (Contributor), Molotch, Harvey (Contributor), Oliver-Smith, Anthony (Contributor), Perrow, Charles B. (Contributor), Quarantelli, Enrico L. (Contributor), Rodriguez, Havidan (Contributor), Scanlon, Joseph (Contributor), Smith, Neil (Contributor), Strolovitch, Dara Z. (Contributor), Sturken, Marita (Contributor), Sze, Julie (Contributor), Tierney, Kathleen (Contributor), Wachtendorf, Tricia (Contributor), Warren, Dorian (Contributor) Publisher Social Science Research Council, 2006

  • 698. Publications & Writing

    Understanding September 11

    In the first volume of this two-part collection, part of the SSRC's After September 11 series, leading social scientists examine the political, social, and economic factors underlying the attacks and the implications of terrorism and America’s response to them. Buy from Amazon.

    Contributors Craig Calhoun (Editor), Paul Price (Editor), Ashley S. Timmer (Editor) Publisher The New Press, 2002

  • 699. Publications & Writing

    Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women's Work

    Unraveling the Garment Industry is an ambitious investigation of the politics of labor and protest within an industry that has come to define the possibilities and abuses of globalization and its feminized labor: the garment industry. Focusing on three labor rights movements—ag…

    Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2007

  • 700. Publications & Writing

    Urban Protests and Rural Violence in Africa: A Call for an Integrated Approach

    …2010 protests outside University of Zalingei, West Darfur.UN photo: Albert Gonzalez Farran African countries appear to be in the midst of an epic shift in the nature of their political struggles. The continent continues its long-term decline in violent conflicts with the total nu…

    Author Zachariah Mampilly Published In African Futures