Search Results - "Politics"

Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Buckley, Eve E.

Table of Contents: “…Development politics and scientific expertise -- Climate and culture: constructing sertanejo marginality in modern Brazil -- Civilizing the sertão: public health in Brazil's hinterland, 1910s -- Engineering the drought zone: the birth of IFOCS, 1909-1930 -- Patronizing the Northeast: IFOCS under Vargas in the 1930s -- Watering Brazil's desert: agronomists and sertão reform, 1932-1955 -- Modernizing a region: economists as development experts, 1948-1964 -- Science, politics, and social reform.…”
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When the Devil Knocks : The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama / by Alexander Craft, Renee

Table of Contents: “…Between the Devil and the deep blue sea -- "Una raza, dos etnias" : the politics of be(com)ing "Afropanameño" -- Christ, the Devil, and the terrain of blackness -- Baptizing the Devil : circum-local transmission and translation of culture -- "Los gringos vienen!" …”
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Mad Men, Mad World : Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s /

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Historicizing Fear : Ignorance, Vilification, and Othering /

Table of Contents: “…Fong -- 3.Microbe Culture: Germ Politics and the Unseen Racial History of Nature / Melanie Armstrong -- Reinforcing or Spreading Fear of the "Other" -- 4."…”
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Remembrance, History, and Justice : Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies /

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Sounds of the Underground : A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music / by Graham, Stephen (Musicologist)

Table of Contents: “…Global and Local Underground/Fringe Scenes; Part II-The Political and Cultural Underground; 4. Politics and Underground/Fringe Music; 5. …”
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Envisioning Socialism : Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic / by Gumbert, Heather L.

Table of Contents: “…Cold War Signals: Television Technology in the GDR -- Inventing Television Programming in the GDR -- The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Political Discipline Confronts Live Television in 1956 -- Mediating the Berlin Wall: Television in August -- Coercion and Consent in Television Broadcasting: The Consequences of August 1961 -- Reaching Consensus on Television.…”
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Nonhuman Witnessing : War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World / by Richardson, Michael, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Nonhuman Witnessing -- Witnessing Violence -- Witnessing Algorithms -- Witnessing Ecologies -- Witnessing Absence -- Toward a Politics of Nonhuman Witnessing.…”
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Rare Earth Frontiers : From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes / by Klinger, Julie Michelle, 1983-

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Metroimperial Intimacies : Fantasy, Racial-Sexual Governance, and the Philippines in U.S. Imperialism, 1899-1913 / by Mendoza, Victor Román, 1976-

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How Climate Change Comes to Matter : The Communal Life of Facts / by Callison, Candis, 1971-

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Orphaned Landscapes : Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia / by Spyer, Patricia, 1957-

Subjects: “…Visual communication Political aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01168003 174281…”
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Perspectives on Science and Culture /

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Aberration of Mind : Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South / by Sommerville, Diane Miller

Table of Contents: “…A burden too heavy to bear: war trauma, suicide, and Confederate soldiers -- A dark doom to dread: women, suicide, and suffering on the Confederate homefront -- De lan' of sweet dreams: suffering and suicide among the enslaved -- Somethin' went hard agin her mind: suffering, suicide, and emancipation -- The accursed ills I cannot bear: Confederate veterans, suicide, and suffering in the defeated South -- The distressed state of the country: Confederate men and the navigation of economic, political, and emotional ruin in the postwar South -- All is dark before me: Confederate women and the postwar landscape of suffering and suicide -- Cumberer of the earth: the secularization of suffering and suicide.…”
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The Distinction of Peace : A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding / by Goetze, Catherine

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Migrating Borders and Moving Times : Temporality and the Crossing of Borders in Europe /

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American Dolorologies : Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics / by Strick, Simon, 1974-

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A Precarious Game : The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry / by Bulut, Ergin

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From Russia with Code : Programming Migrations in Post-Soviet Times /

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Other Mothers : Beyond the Maternal Ideal /

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