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... The chapter recounts fieldwork at the Hinsdale Wave Laboratory at Oregon State University, home of the world's largest tsunami simulation basin. It is concerned with what wave science looks like in the lab as scientists make scaled-down replicas of real-world waves. Wave tanks, using water...

... everything from scale-model wave tanks to computer-generated imagery (CGI) and explicates how they enable waves' narrative purposes and effects. Towering waves in film have operated as emblems of the elemental power of cosmic, inhuman, arbitrary forces; the return of the social-environmental repressed...

... If chapter 4 began with two events that divided the world, chapter 5 circles around two figures who did the same, but in a different way. One was the 9/11 suicide bomber, the other, the 1989 Tian’anmen “tank man.” In the West, these are antithetical figures, yet they meet around one question...

... as underpinning the rise of the Tea Party and its commonsense narrative: “Grassroots activists, roving billionaire advocates, and right-wing media purveyors’ (Skocpol and Williamson 2012, 13). Tea Party common sense Powell Memo grassroots activists think tanks media ...

..., but in a different way. One was the 9/11 suicide bomber, the other, the 1989 Tian’anmen “tank man.” In the West, these are antithetical figures, yet they meet around one question, namely, under what conditions does one consider the possibility of giving one’s own life willingly as sacrifice? For the fateful few who...

... Party common sense Powell Memo grassroots activists think tanks media This case study chapter looks at Occupy Wall Street (OWS), another contemporary social movement but one emerging from the left rather than the right. It, too, seemed to erupt out of nowhere. And like the Tea Party...