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741. 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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742. 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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743. 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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744. Publications & Writing
When the Twain Shall Meet: Middle East Area Studies and the Discipline of Economics
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745. 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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746. Publications & Writing
Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India
Examined through a framework of access to care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and interpersonal relationships, 2000 IDRF Fellow Sarah Pinto follows the daily lives of rural women in the Sitapur district from a range of caste…
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747. Publications & Writing
Whither United Nations Economic and Social Ideas? A Research Agenda
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748. Publications & Writing
Who Belongs Where?
Since a peace agreement was signed in 2003, officially ending a decade of war in the country, an estimated two million civilians have died and millions of others have been forced to flee their homes, creating one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. This paper seeks to…
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749. Publications & Writing
Who Remits? The Case of Nicaragua
This paper uses a nationally-representative household survey from Nicaragua (2001) to examine the remittance behavior of migrants in two destination countries: the US and Costa Rica. Since only about half of all migrants remit, the paper uses a censored tobit model to analyze…
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750. Publications & Writing
Why Google Should Not Quit


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