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... pertinent to today and prepares the way for the engagements to follow in this study. Job cosmos the Nameless One climate change ...

... Ghassan Hage recounts the tensions he experienced as he was preparing to deliver a lecture at a Palestinian university. Whereas he perceived that the role of the intellectual in such circumstances is less to affirm new ideas than to confirm what his audience already knows, thus manifesting his...

... Chapter 4 ponders the ways in which black girls were considered citizens during the Migration period. The chapter first considers black participation in the Camp Fire Girls, a national camping organization founded to prepare girls to be good citizens and strong mothers. Black women adapted...

... Not long into his first term, initiatives were developed to enhance the basic sciences through recruiting outstanding chairs and faculty. Major organizational changes were needed to prepare the medical center for managed care. Duke University Medical Center needed be able to act...

... , or “media philosophy.” Providing an overview of early debates on mediation and distilling many of the conceptual stakes of media theory that philosophers in 1930s Japan prepared, this chapter resituates the work of central figures such as Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, Tosaka Jun, and Nakai Masakazu...

... into its functionaries in charge of maintaining its authority within their old communities. This incorporation of the former Ryūkyū kingdom elites into the bureaucratic structure of the Meiji state exacerbated existing social tensions and prepared the ground for new conflicts that subsequent chapters...