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711. Publications & Writing
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace
War in Darfur and the Search for Peace, edited by SSRC Program Director Alex de Waal, brings together essays by noted Sudanese scholars and international experts on the Darfur region of Sudan. Since 2003, Darfur has been the locus of a hideous war that has aroused the outrage of…
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712. Publications & Writing
Western Soldiers and the Protection of Local Civilians in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Is a Nationalist Orientation in the Armed Forces Hindering Our Preparedness to Fight?
Publication by DPDF 2009 "State Violence" Fellow Daniel Blocq. Mandates for UN peacekeeping operations in Africa have become more robust since the delivery of the Brahimi Report in 2000. Contrary to before, soldiers are now unmistakably expected to use force to protect local civ…
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713. Publications & Writing
What Drives the Diffusion of Inclusionary Zoning?
Publication by Jenny Schuetz and DPDF 2007 "The Political Economy of Redistribution" Fellow Rachel Meltzer. Social scientists offer competing theories on what explains the policymaking process. These typically include economic rationalism, political competition or power struggle…
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714. Publications & Writing
What Happened to the Women? Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations
What happens to women whose lives are transformed by human rights violations? What happens to the voices of victimized women once they have their day in court or in front of a truth commission? Women face a double marginalization under authoritarian regimes and during and after…
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715. Publications & Writing
What Matters? Ethnographies of Value in a Not So Secular Age
Over the past decade, religious, secular, and spiritual distinctions have broken down, forcing scholars to rethink secularity and its relationship to society. Since classifying a person, activity, or experience as religious or otherwise is an important act of valuation, one that…
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716. Publications & Writing
When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan
Following the end of World War II in Asia, the Allied powers repatriated over six million Japanese nationals from colonies and battlefields throughout Asia and deported more than a million colonial subjects from
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717. Publications & Writing
When Mandela Dies and Mugabe Goes
Robert Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, addresses the general debate of the sixty-fifth session of the General Assembly This month sees the anniversaries both of the first free general elections in South Africa (27 April 1994) and independence from white minority ru…
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718. Publications & Writing
When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia
In When Women Have Wings, 1998 IDRF Fellow Donna F. Murdock provides an insightful and detailed look at the tensions, contradictions, and positive moments apparent in a women’s development project in Medellín, Colombia. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic field research in…
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719. Publications & Writing
When the Twain Shall Meet: Middle East Area Studies and the Discipline of Economics
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720. Publications & Writing
'Where No X-man Has Gone Before!’ Mutant Superheroes and the Cultural Politics of Popular Fantasy in Postwar America
Publication by DPDF 2007 "Visual Culture" Fellow Ramzi Fawaz. Dismissed for decades as juvenile entertainment, comic books had by the early 1970s come of age as America's “native art”: taught on Ivy League campuses, studied by European scholars and filmmakers, and taken up a…
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