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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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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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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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Ending the Mother Ghost: Beckett’s Ill Seen Ill Said and Rockaby [PDF]
, 2014 This paper looks at two late texts written in 1981 by Samuel Beckett, the novel Ill Seen Ill Said and the play Rockaby, and reads them as difficult Oedipal elegies for his mother May Beckett who had died thirty years previously.
Piette, A.C.
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Justice Between Coexisting Generations: Birth Cohorts or Age Groups?
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper will deal with intergenerational justice, focusing on the relationship between coexisting generations. The first section will be reserved for some conceptual clarifications on the concept of justice, on the distinction between age groups and birth cohorts, and on the specificity of age as a category for apportioning benefits and ...
Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
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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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NGOs as Gatekeepers to Local Media: Networked News for Developing Countries [PDF]
This paper illustrates how innovations leading to networked media have the potential to support the work of non-governmental organisations engaged in development work through providing new means of achieving accountability and transparency.
Charlie Beckett
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In Search of Enlightenment by Reading Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot [PDF]
, 2015 Beckett’s philosophical indebtedness has long been recognised – especially in conjunction with Dante, Descartes and Geulincx. In this article, I examine Beckettian universal values of Enlightenment, which will be exposed as self-serving mystifications ...
Rizvi, Syed Ismyl Mahmood
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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