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...Martin Bernal Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Martin Bernal Race, Class, and Gender in the Formation of the Aryan Model of Greek Origins My work Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization is concerned with the formation of ancient Greece, which I believe...

...Jo Littler This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or nonwhite achievement in the global North and roundly contested and critiqued...

...Allan Kornberg; Joel Smith Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Political Socialization and Party Activists: A Model for Cross-National Inquiry Allan Kornberg and Joel Smith Political party work, although it rarely involves more than 2 percent of the populations of most Western...

...Eugene Ivakhnenko Duke University Press 2006 Eugene Ivakhnenko A Threshold-Dominant Model of the Imperial and Colonial Discourses of Russia In this article, I intend to show the distinctive features of the colonial epistemic matrix...

...Judith Harris Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Judith Harris Giotto s Invisible Sheep: Lacanian Mirroring and Modeling in Walcott s Another Life Emerging as a poet whose West Indian cultural identity is frozen within the ontological riddle of the landscape, Walcott acknowledges...

... experiments in such visualization. Each takes its start from a type of model used in evolutionary studies, respectively, the feedback systems of niche construction and the graphing of fitness or adaptive “landscapes.” In each case the model is adapted in qualitative ways in order to encounter a deep human...

... Tucker The Necessity of Models, of Alternatives: Samuel R. Delany’s Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand “Boy loses world, boy meets boy, boy loses boy, boy saves world” ​In Reading by Starlight: Postmodern Science...

...Massimiliano Nicoli; Luca Paltrinieri This paper focalizes on the economic model of digital platforms as a new method of coordinating the production of value. We suggest that the advent of “platform capitalism” is symptomatic of a crisis of the model of the firm understood as a space separated from...

... to faculty members who over time have demonstrated meritorious work in their specific fields of expertise. The proliferation of post-tenure reviews, however, suggests another model at work: academic freedom as grounded in free market principles rather than on long-term merit. The changes marked...

... and pleasure” provide an image of the inseparability of power not only from knowledge but also from pleasure. By way of Georges Canguilhem’s reading of James Watson and Francis Crick, I contend that Foucault borrowed the model of those spirals from the double helix of DNA—and that the iconography of the life...

... to become Christian in the contemporary world? After outlining Alain Badiou's theory of the event and arguing for its anthropological usefulness, I deploy it in analyzing in some detail the history of a community's conversion in Papua New Guinea. While Badiou's model brings out many aspects of this case...

... existing syllabi and offer a degree through the latter's international program while offering what it claims will be a teaching system modeled on Oxbridge tutorials. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S T the D A Y Priyamvada Gopal How...

...Joshua Clover; Aaron Benanav Certain currents within communist thought have emphasized a return to the party form as a model of organization for communist struggle. This essay takes the basic historical materialist position that this demand must be evaluated not according to normative claims about...

...Ilya Budraitskis In his essay “The Weakest Link of Managed Democracy: How the Parliament Gave Birth to Nonparliamentary Politics,” Ilya Budraitskis reflects on the model of “managed democracy” in Russian political culture and on the specific place of the Russian Parliament. In December 2011, many...

... the ways the corridor economy model is being projected as the future of development. In so doing, the article positions this model as a neoliberal institution that marks new frontiers of capital and asks how the struggles crisscrossing the spaces of the DMIC reveal the paradoxical and heterogeneous...

... for a sustainable future; in a way, it is an ambition to create the cultural equivalent of mathematical modeling—how to map the near future space from a position of culture, not science. This essay explores the genesis and history of the organization and the work it is currently undertaking, ultimately examining...

... First Nations' peoples, its concerns mirror the concerns of Indigenous peoples globally. But confusing media messaging has consistently misconstrued the self-determination demands in fourth world social movements since the civil rights era, more recently conflating them with environmentalism. Modeling...

...Eleanor Kaufman Against the idea that thinkers such as Althusser practice a form of ideology critique that is equivalent to a style of “deep reading,” at issue is a model of critical analysis that attends to what is readily perceptible on the surface but not conceptualized as such. In the mid-1960s...

... differences, and on the model of imperial power, which provides Jameson with his 1981 model of four-fold interpretation. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Fredric Jameson Hayden White allegory narrative constructivism References Jameson Fredric . 1981...

... sector, highlighting the adoption of local norms and traditions. For decades, thousands of casas particulares have hosted exchanges between visitors and the local population. Based on ethnographic data collected in Havana, we contend that the “Airbnb model” was present before the gig economy giant...