... As a nineteen-year-old student, the author made his first visit to the USSR. The chapter describes a brief detention at the Soviet border over a minor mistake in filling out an entry form, first impressions on arriving in Moscow, and the intense interest of their young Soviet guides—once older...

... such as this book, hopefully developers and the PNG state will not repeat many of the mistakes that have occurred at Porgera and other mines. This chapter also engages with resilience and explores how locally derived ontologies and myths intersect with a resilience framework focused on coupled human and natural...

... of humanistic scholarship in terms closer to Henry James’s view of the novel itself. For these writers, what is most valued is the possibility of affirming the potential of both realism and romance, without simply mistaking the one for the other. Ian McEwan Bruno Latour realism critique humanities ...

... on mutual acknowledgment of the expectations and limits of the collaboration. Yet it would be a mistake to subsume policy ethnography under the category of applied social science and oppose it to critical approaches, as is often assumed. Like the practitioner of martial art, the ethnographer studying...

... The Vladivostok summit convened in 1974 established limits on US and Soviet strategic forces but could not be turned into a treaty because of political maneuvering in Washington and a US mistake over how to count Air Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCM). The chapter describes negotiations leading...

... systemic economic problems and policy mistakes by Gorbachev; the heavy military burden; secrecy that limited knowledge about the country even among those who needed it, and that helped undermine support for the system when the truth about its problems emerged; and the relaxation of repression, releasing...

... mistakes Hettie’s sarcasm for seriousness. Beginning of first Gulf War. At turn of century, Gloucester gentrifying, Helene at seventy-two years is again chased from the house she’s lived in twelve years. Falls, breaks wrist, has concussion. Hettie’s book Drive wins Poetry Society’s First Book Award...

... of the novel itself. For these writers, what is most valued is the possibility of affirming the potential of both realism and romance, without simply mistaking the one for the other. Ian McEwan Bruno Latour realism critique humanities Rooney argues that symptomatic reading distinguishes itself...

... and the public sphere, with scholars commonly writing opinion pieces for newspapers. The interactions developed with the agents of the organizations were therefore based on mutual acknowledgment of the expectations and limits of the collaboration. Yet it would be a mistake to subsume policy ethnography under...