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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

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Being Human during COVID /

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Stigma Stories : Rhetoric, Lived Experience, and Chronic Illness / by Kessler, Molly Margaret

Table of Contents: “…Studying stigma: a rhetorical approach to stories and lived experience ; Rhetoric of stories, stigma, lived experiences ; Studying stigma stories ; Preview of chapters -- Listening for stigma: praxiographic solutions and stigma in practice ; Critiques of stigma research ; Praxiographic solutions ; Stigma in practice ; An ethical case for engaging stigma praxiographically -- Staging stigma: ostomies as worst-case scenarios ; Leaks, stigma, and visceral publics ; Worst-case scenarios: ostomies in public health campaigns ; Ostomies on TV: fear and disgust in popular media ; Staging stigma through fear ; Credibility enhanced through stigma ; Conclusion -- Protesting stigma: disruptive stories, temporality, and ostomies as lifesavers ; Temporality, disability, and progressions of experience ; Rejecting compulsory nostalgia: disruptive ostomy stories as protest ; Disruptive stories, disruptive timelines ; Complicating a two-sided story ; Conclusion -- Managing stigma: visual acts of resistance ; Normalcy, norms, and the impossibility of normalization ; Displaying ostomies and soliciting stares ; Visual rewards and risks: sexualizing disability ; Showing off ostomies and arriving at the destination of normal ; Conclusion -- Thinking with stories: toward stigma interventions ; The value of a praxiographic approach to stories ; Interventional insights ; Conducting entangled research.…”
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War at the Margins : Indigenous Experiences in World War II / by Poyer, Lin, 1953-

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Upland Geopolitics : Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush / by Dwyer, Michael B.

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Before Official Multiculturalism : Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s / by Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The Case Study -- The Scholarship -- Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice -- Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities -- Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence -- Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Mini-Skirt" Feminism -- Making Multicultural Community at the Institute -- Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training -- Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget -- Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation -- Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism.…”
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 /

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Disruptions as Opportunities : Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism / by Sun, Taiyi

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The Three Ages of Government : From the Person, to the Group, to the World / by Raadschelders, J. C. N.

Table of Contents: “…-- Government in society: The conceptual and historical context for understanding government -- Opening Salvo: On the torture of holistic scholarship -- Government as artifice of bounded rationality: Simon and Vico -- Social ontology for understanding institutional arrangements -- Hierarchies of knowledge: From simple to complex phenomena -- Government as function of instinct, community, and society -- Institutional changes and the triple whammy -- Changes at the constitutional level -- Changes at the collective level -- Changes at the operational level -- Enter the triple whammy: Industrialization, urbanization, and rapid population growth -- The stage is set for the remainder of this book -- Instinct and intent: Origins and elements of human governing behaviors -- The nature-nurture issue: From dichotomy to balanced complex -- Sociality among the great apes and humans: Similarities and differences -- Similarities -- Differences -- Physical and social features of the Hominin tribe -- Human instinct and intent -- How we differ from primates: Governing among and of hunter-gatherers -- Conflicting impulses underlying governing arrangements -- Concluding comments: Relevance to understanding what government is -- Tribal community: Governing humans in ever larger, sedentary groups -- The growth, dispersion, and concentration of the human species -- The agricultural revolution: Fraud or inevitable? …”
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Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies : Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance / by Wilson, James F.

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Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology : Perspectives and Prospects /

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Like a Captive Bird : Gender and Virtue in Plutarch / by Warren, Lunette

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Technical Territories : Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia / by Munn, Luke, 1981-

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Oil Fictions : World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere /

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The Pox Lover : An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris / by D'Adesky, Anne-Christine

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Passing Performances : Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History /

Table of Contents: “…Schanke and Kim Marra -- "My noble Spartacus": Edwin Forrest and masculinity on the nineteenth-century stage / Ginger Strand -- "Such Romeo as we had never ventured to hope for": Charlotte Cushman / Denise A. …”
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Realisms in East Asian Performance /

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Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain : Nationalism and Identity Politics in the Iberian Peninsula /

Table of Contents: “…Recording zarzuela grande in Spain in the Early Days of the Phonograph and Gramophone / Eva Moreda Rodríguez ; The Invisible Voices of the Early Recording Market in Portugal / Leonor Losa ; Radio, Popular Music, and Nationalism in Portugal in the 1940s / Pedro Moreira ; Protest Song and Recording in the Final Stages of the Estado Novo in Portugal (1960-1974) / Hugo Castro -- Part III. …”
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The Case Study as Research Method by Gagnon, Yves-Chantal

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Stage 1 : Assessing Appropriateness and Usefulness -- Stage 2 : Ensuring Accuracy of Results -- Stage 3 : Preparation -- Stage 4 : Selecting Cases -- Stage 5 : Collecting Data -- Stage 6 : Analyzing Data -- Stage 7 : Interpreting Data -- Stage 8 : Reporting Results -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References…”
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Networks of Power : Political Relations in the Late Postclassic Naco Valley / by Schortman, Edward M.

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