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Series: Radical Perspectives
Published: 29 June 2007
DOI: 10.1215/9780822389958-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8995-8
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By Lily Feiler
Published: 01 January 1994
DOI: 10.1215/9780822379539-020
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7953-9
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By Walt Odets
Series: Series Q
Published: 01 January 1995
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7923-2
Published: 29 May 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395539-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9553-9
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 21 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392705-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9270-5
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By Margaret Randall
Published: 07 April 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7296-7
... island isolation ecology identity Cuban blockade ...
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By Michel Chion, James A. Steintrager
Published: 01 January 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7482-4
... fixation processing acoustic decoupling acoustic isolation phonogeneration ...
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By Jenny Boulboullé
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5998-1
... contamination control microbiological cleanrooms isolator technologies sterile regimes epistemological pluralism ...
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By Margaret Randall
Published: 07 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822372967-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7296-7
... This chapter discusses islands as landmasses, large and small, with special characteristics. Those who live on islands develop an identity deeply affected by living in physical and—in the case of Cuba—political isolation. This chapter begins by speaking of islands in general, their ecology...
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By Michel Chion, James A. Steintrager
Published: 01 January 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374824-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7482-4
... for fixation on various media; phonogeneration, or the technological creation of sounds; and reshaping, or the processing or manipulation of sounds. These basic effects have served in turn to decouple and to isolate elements of acoustic production and experience that were formerly inherently connected...
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By Jenny Boulboullé
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059981-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5998-1
... The epilogue is devoted to an exploration of contamination-controlled spaces that play a key role in life sciences research today, such as isolator technologies and microbiological cleanrooms. Drawing on historical sources, in situ observations, and interviews with laboratory personnel...
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By Perry Zurn
Published: 06 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060291-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6029-1
... that resistant formations are never simple or isolable; there are always multiple webs and competing hangouts. In order to understand what resistance work trans is doing (and not doing) in any given moment, “trans” cannot be studied in isolation. It must be situated in what is more and other than trans...
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By I. Augustus Durham
Published: 17 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027652-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2765-2
... uses kinship language during the lesson, and the classroom is her basement studio. The under(-)ground and/or basements are vital to Ellison's oeuvre as he often plots fascinating yet isolated narrativations of a “mother,” utilizing vernacular, sharing said location with her “son.” Juxtaposing his...
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By Orin Starn, Anne Allison
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375654-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7565-4
... considers how one does fieldwork on and in precariousness. It also examines how those most vulnerable to social isolation and everyday risk are coming up with new strategies for redesigning life with others. sociality Japan life and death ...
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-017
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... a given person but also of their parents, and possibly their ancestors, they are hard to individualize. Rather, contamination and contagion are, in many ways, prior and necessary to the conceptualization of the notion of environment and how exposure breaks down modern notions of an isolated nature outside...
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By C. L. R. James, Christian Høgsbjerg
Series: The C. L. R. James Archives
Published: 21 July 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373346-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7334-6
... This chapter explores the struggle for leadership after Lenin’s death between Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky. Stalin’s ability to unite with Zinoviev and Kamenev to form “the troika” and isolate Trotsky through creating “Trotskyism” as distinct from “Leninism” are contextualized within...
Series: The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Published: 03 June 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374220-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7422-0
... This chapter focuses on those who live in the mountainous margins of civilizational heartlands and, today, in the border areas of modern nation-states. These peoples have been the typical subjects of anthropological research because of their remote, relatively isolated locations, the small scale...
Series: The C. L. R. James Archives
Published: 21 July 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373346-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7334-6
... Here James explores the paradox about the founding of the Third Communist International in 1919 at a time of defeat. James discusses the German Revolution of 1918 and events in Austria and their stifling at the hands of Social Democratic governments. The isolation of German revolutionaries like...
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By Kris Cohen
Published: 25 July 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478061076-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6107-6
... that isn’t based in essentialism, but that is also not based in a strong claim to individual freedom or autonomy. In this, his work helps us to see the precise way that the graphical field forms a vision of collectivity that isolates individuals in order to connect them to others by way of a web or network...
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By Diego Armus, Lisa Ubelaker Andrade
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 20 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059851-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5985-1
...The Living City Part I, “The Living City,” explores the city’s expansion as part of its social and cultural history. Rather than looking at architecture or urbanism in isolation, it traces how larger issues like disease, transportation technologies, social mobility, inequality, and policy...