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.... The article begins with a discussion of the regional Black tradition of cooperative organization, collectivism, and mutual aid that was contemporaneously denied by state administrators and retrospectively obscured in historiography. It then examines three federal resettlement projects in the Black Belt region...

...Diana Graizbord Abstract This article examines how and to what effect the scientific ideal and practice of replication is adopted by a Mexican federal government agency charged with measuring poverty. The commitment to replication among state poverty experts is traced to their self‐conception...

... arbitrarily rank administrative units and place them in a competitive relation with each other within Indian federalism. As technical device, aesthetic projection, and mediating interface, the index is a node in “maximum governance,” an emergent apparatus of governance that renders development as the site...

... engagements with the complex problem of freedom. It suggests that they can be grasped as such only if we recognize that Césaire's 1946 program to transform Antillean colonies into French departments and his subsequent attempt to reconstitute France as a federal republic were mediated by the spirits...

...Karen Ann Faulk On January 18, 2015, Argentine federal prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment. His death, coming one day before he was due to appear in the National Congress to describe his recently announced formal denunciation of then president Cristina Fernández...

...Shannon Cram This article explores the politics of permissible exposure for US nuclear workers. I argue that despite recent efforts to improve regulations for occupational radiation protection, the federal government has been unable to solve the fundamental paradox of nuclear safety: that some...

... of the “war on crime” and “law and order” politics of the 1960s, while paying attention to the surprising Cold War roots of the political autonomy of police. Historians and political scientists have recently demonstrated the importance of the federal government in fostering aggressive and expansive...

... back to 1987. The three partners have different histories. The Society for the Pro- tection of Area Resource Centres, or SPARC, is an NGO formed by social work professionals in 1984 to work with problems of urban poverty in Mumbai. NSDF, the National Slum Dwellers’ Federation, is a powerful...

... and federal wildlife services to list the delta smelt as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal was immediately controversial, as state water managers and local water contractors understood that Endangered Species Act protection of the smelt’s habitat—the entire delta—would likely...

... to integrate and function effectively in the liberal-­democratic Federal Republic. 2. See, for example, Hirsi Ali’s blunt and sweeping statements about Islam’s problem with sexual- ity and women as the root cause of its failure to absorb...

... New Orleans. Debates at the federal level over the effectiveness and legitimacy of provid- ing federal funding to support disaster relief and other safety net programs (as opposed to leaving this job to private sector charities...

... to a jammed press conference, and the International Amateur Athletics Federation (I.A.A.F.) awarded the gold medal to Lewis and inval- idated Johnson's new world record (as it later would his earlier 9.83, leav- ing Lewis's Seoul run of 9.92 the current world standard). In a chaotic scene...

... a signed tracking form is still not received, then you must file an exception report by the 46th day both with the federal Environmental Protection Agency Region I1 Office and the DEC regional office. MEDICAL WASTE FOR TRANSPORT Large and small quantity generators must: segregate...

... in authorizing and proliferating particular ways of separating the secular from the religious ( Hurd 2015) . These lawsuits offer rich case studies for understanding how reciprocal relationships among organized nonbelievers and local, state, and federal laws have made a modest impact on American secularism...

...- ing sometimes to distortions from the normal. Movement in the slope of the curve is affected mainly by two actions: the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve as it raises or lowers short-term interest rates, and the buying and selling of U.S. Trea...

.... Government Accountability Office). 2006 . Information sharing: The federal government needs to establish policies and processes for sharing terrorism-related and sensitive but unclassified information . Washington, D.C.: GAO. Gellman, Barton. 2008 . Angler: The Cheney vice presidency . New York...

... is mirrored not only in monumental stone but also in the constant creation and recreation of musical forms, dance rhythms, bodily configurations, and new artistic expressions. Yet at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, the tourists that visited what was then the federal...

..., and with the rapid restoration of normal conditions in any area that has been attacked.”21 Based on a proposal from the NSRB, President Harry S. Tru- man established the Federal Civil Defense Administration in 1950. Congress then passed the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, which distributed a series of civil...

... (Mexico City), 23 January, 52 -62. Mercado Moraga, Angel. 1997 . Reservas territoriales para usos urbanos en el Distrito Federal. In Bases para la planeación del desarrollo urbano en la ciudad de Mexico ,edited by Roberto Eibenschutz. Vol. 2 . Mexico City:Porrúa-UAM. Monnet, Jerome. 1995...

.... Evans , P. 1995. Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation . Princeton: Princeton University Press. Federal Government of Nigeria. 1981a. [ Aniagolu] Report of Tribunal of Inquiry on Kano Disturbances . Lagos: Federal Government Press. Federal Government of Nigeria. 1981b...