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Police department design, political pressure, and racial inequality in arrests
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This paper theorizes a source of bias in discretionary arrests: strategic limits on police officer learning. Officers have a variety of tactics at their disposal besides arrest that they use for less serious offenses when they judge the underlying behavior to be less severe. In departments led by a chief with special expertise in crime control,
Andrew J. McCall
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather +11 more
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Flaubert, Beckett, Toussaint : d’un phrasé l’autre
Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique, 2012 If Flaubert, Beckett and Toussaint are members of what Sainte-Beuve called “a spiritual family”, it is because they share the same sense of irony and humour which is reflected in the way they each treat syntax, style or punctuation.
Karine Germoni
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Beckett’s Path of Least Resistance: Attention, Distraction, Drift [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2019 This essay utilizes Beckett’s fictional and critical explorations of attention, distraction and drift to reflect on the ways in which, stripped of the conventions of cultural production, walking, thinking and artistic endeavor might be reimagined outside
Yael Levin
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ABEI Journal, 2001 “Alba,” by Samuel Beckett. In: Janvier, L. Beckett par lui même. Paris Éditions du Seuil, 1969, p. 43. Translated by Maria Helena Kopschitz.
Samuel Beckett, Maria Helena Kopschitz
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Beckett and Bare Life: Post-war Political Subjectivity in Molloy [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2019 What can Beckett offer political theory concerned with subjecthood in the aftermath of the Nazi concentration camps? I suggest in this essay that Molloy provides a literary terrain through which to explore the collapse of the Enlightenment and the ...
John Parker Evans
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The Topos of the Mound in Samuel Beckett’s Writing
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2014 This essay aims to bring to the fore the varied and broad valences of the ‘mound’ in Beckett’s oeuvre. In my reading, the mound functions as a profuse, multi-purpose symbol, that coalesces into a variety of topoi indicative of Mother Earth, that figure ...
Habibi Reza
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Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bycatch remains a critical challenge in global fisheries, even when using selective gears such as longlines. In the French longline fishery targeting Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Lion, the common pelagic stingray (Pteroplatytrygon violacea) is the primary bycatch species.
Antoine Landreau +5 more
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Beckett and Disability Politics: The Case of Cuchulain [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2019 In his depiction of the hero Cuchulain, Samuel Beckett interrogates how disability and compulsory able-bodiedness are foundational myths for the Irish Free State.
Siobhán Purcell
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The Political Novel in the Age of its Impotence: On Recent German Right‐Wing Fiction
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract While scholars have increasingly studied the German right's publishing strategies and literary politics, less attention has been paid to the literary texts as such. They are worth examining in detail, I argue here, because they reflect in exaggerated form a problem that troubles political novels more generally: the dwindling role of the novel ...
Sophie Salvo
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