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Simulation and Analysis of PECVD Process for Silicon Nitride Deposition Using CFD: Impact of Pressure on Deposition Uniformity

SiliconPV Conference Proceedings
This study presents a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based simulation of the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) process utilizing COMSOL Multiphysics.
Vinay Prasad, Arun Appadurai
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Bringing artifacts (back) to life

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract Museums’ ethnographic collections can be conceptualized as affective forces—relational intensities that emerge between human and more‐than‐human actors, unfold over time, and are embedded in and co‐shape sociomaterial environments. Drawing on debates in the anthropology of objects and political ontology, I develop this perspective through long‐
Hansjörg Dilger
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Arjun Appadurai, Banking on Words

Lectures, 2015
In David Cronenberg’s movie adaptation of Don De Lillo’s novella Cosmopolis, Eric Packer, a young billionaire prince of Wall Street, stands to lose his empire following a bad bet on currencies. Amid looming financial ruin and signs of social unrest, he inches across Manhattan in his white stretch limousine on a whimsical mission to get a haircut.
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Adaptive Spaces and Rural Futures: Climate Change, Agrarian Dynamics, and Knowledge Politics in Southeast Asian Socioecological Transformations

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary rural change in Southeast Asia is shaped by complex, intersecting forces that defy simplistic narratives. Researchers must therefore develop new ways to grasp nuanced, non‐linear, and locally specific processes to understand how transformational shifts may occur (or not) in the region.
John F. McCarthy, Jean‐Christophe Castella, Kelly Dorkenoo   +2 more
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Arjun Appadurai and Critical Cultural Studies

AL-MIKRAJ : Jurnal Studi Islam dan Humaniora (E-ISSN: 2745-4584), 2018
Globalization as a phenomenon was seen by scholars as a compression of the world, where the world comes together as a global village in thought and in action. Arjun Appadurai, in his theorization of globalization, challenges this view. He argues that globalization is primarily disjunctive, scalar, and contextual.
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
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Divorcescapes: Family Conflicts and Children's Lived Spaces

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents an analysis from a project that focuses on the entanglements that emerge between practices within the family law system and the everyday lives of children in conflictual family law cases. We position our analysis in critical childhood studies and zoom in on the social–spatial dimensions of children's everyday lives by ...
Hanne Warming, Sarah Alminde
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Torre Latinoamericana: 50 años. Restauración de un testigo

Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, 2011
En este artículo se toma la metodología de la biografía cultural propuesta por Arjun Appadurai  para bosquejar el proceso de singularización de la Torre Latinoamericana, que parte de ser  un edificio comercial construido en 1956 hasta llegar a las ...
Fabiola Hernández Flores
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Governing and Living Through Failure: Russian Speakers in Ethnocentric Nation‐Building Projects of Estonia and Latvia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to nationalism studies by demonstrating how states use failure as a governance tool to regulate national belonging and by showing how people experience and reinterpret failure in ways that unsettle dominant national imaginaries.
Lena Hercberga, Alina Jašina‐Schäfer
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