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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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, 2008 textThis dissertation examines Samuel Beckett's powerful legacy and influence on contemporary theater (on plays written and produced since 1980), and it defines this influence in both text and performance as gestures of emptiness and impotence.
Philips, Jennifer Beth, 1976-
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Artefilosofia, 2017 O artigo examina a interpretação que Gilles Deleuze oferece para a obra televisiva de Samuel Beckett, especialmente para uma delas, Quad. Através do contraponto entre seus comentários de Beckett e de Leibniz, mostra-se que Deleuze mobiliza um conceito de
Ulysses Pinheiro
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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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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Discourse around drug policy presents a stark contrast between policing and harm reduction models, sparking debates on the state's regulatory versus protective role. Canada is an ideal case to study drug policy models due to its global recognition as a leader in harm reduction alongside continued reliance on policing of drugs.
Taylor Domingos
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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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Ohio impromptu, genre and Beckett on film
, 2005 Samuel Beckett’s choice of the title Ohio Impromptu to name the play first performed to an audience of academics and scholars at Columbus Ohio in 1981 is one manifestation of its author’s interest in the question of literary genre; more generally, in ...
Dowd, Garin
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Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary Using administrative case‐processing records and interviews with prosecutors, we examine how a change in prosecutorial administration impacts charging and plea‐bargaining practices and racial and ethnic disparities in two jurisdictions led by progressive prosecutors who replaced more traditional administrations.
Rachel Bowman +2 more
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.The potential impact of bat species extinction on the number of their ectoparasitic fly species, based on interaction data for Brazil. As bat host species are removed over time, more connected species (green) would experience steeper declines and lead to greater ectoparasite losses when compared to a random extinction model (gray).
Nathan Lorenzo de Sena Gotti +3 more
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