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Series: Politics, History, and Culture
Published: 30 May 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822391814-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9181-4
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By Chuck Eddy
Published: 12 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7389-6
Published: 14 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373933-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7393-3
... The Duke University Medical Center when Ralph Snyderman took over as Chancellor of Health Affairs in 1989 was a well-recognized academic medical center, a sprawling, complex, and large academic, clinical, and educational institution. But, like similar institutions with the development of managed...
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By Mimi Thi Nguyen
Published: 20 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060000-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6000-0
... Staged just twice, first in Angola and later in Cambodia, the Miss Landmine pageant follows from a not uncommon faith that beauty is both a humanitarian problem and also its resolution. This chapter holds together the sprawling international complex that funds and conducts prosthetic...
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By Orin Starn, Charles Piot
Published: 09 March 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375654-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7565-4
... explores the cat-and-mouse game between street and embassy, situating it within the post–cold war conjuncture of ongoing crisis, of an eviscerated though still dictatorial state, of social death and the emptiness of citizenship under such conditions, of a sprawling transnational diaspora and the desires...
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By Matthew Omelsky
Published: 03 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027508-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2750-8
... to chronicle how memory, place, and identity marked the fault lines of what it meant to be black in the age of Thatcherism. The chapter isolates the myriad bodies seeking escape from the sprawling history of black subjugation in these two films, as well as the ways this anticipation of escape is sutured...
Published: 01 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027676-016
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
... a sprawling multibillion dollar lawsuit against Saudi Arabia to canonical histories of the rise of al-Qa‘ida. national security fictions al-Qa‘ida terrorism expertise conspiracy law ...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-026
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... On September 2, 2018, São Cristóvão Palace was destroyed in a catastrophic fire. This palace was a mighty, sprawling architectural monument built in 1803 that served as home to the Portuguese imperial family when Rio de Janeiro was the seat of the global Portuguese Empire and after independence...
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By Joseph Masco, Lisa Wedeen
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
... of these documents reveals how rules of evidence governing the use of hearsay can operate as a form of judicially supervised conspiracy theorization. This chapter sketches the citational afterlives of these documents, from a sprawling multibillion dollar lawsuit against Saudi Arabia to canonical histories...
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By Ralph Snyderman
Published: 14 October 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7393-3
... Snyderman took over as Chancellor of Health Affairs in 1989 was a well-recognized academic medical center, a sprawling, complex, and large academic, clinical, and educational institution. But, like similar institutions with the development of managed care, it faced a challenge to its longstanding...
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By Paul Amar, Editor
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
... radical social movement, centering revolutionary notions of sex work and travesti sociability. CasaNem transvestigênere trans politics travesti housing rights On September 2, 2018, São Cristóvão Palace was destroyed in a catastrophic fire. This palace was a mighty, sprawling architectural...