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Vanishing Point: Joan Didion and the Horizons of Historical Knowledge

European Journal of American Studies, 2015
This critical study situates Joan Didion’s memoir Where I Was From in the context of debates about the textuality of history in contemporary culture. In particular the essay is a critical examination of Didion’s interest in the concept of origins.
Kenneth Millard
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
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Vulnerability and Shame in the Writing of the Female Body: Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
This article examines the representation of the female body in Emilie Pine’s (2018) personal essay ‘Notes on Bleeding & Other Crimes.’ Drawing on vulnerability studies and feminist criticism, I argue that the vulnerability and shame surrounding women’s ...
Lucía Bennett-Ortega
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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“This house is so lonely!”: Home, Belonging, and Identity in Memoirs of Loss and Grief

Text Matters
This analysis explores select autobiographical representations of relationships the bereaved develop with their surroundings in the context of a major death-related loss.
Katarzyna A. Małecka
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The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
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The Life and Afterlives of Captain Hedley Vicars: Evangelical Biography and the Crimean War

19, 2015
This article argues that one of the most influential responses to the Crimean War, and indeed one of the most widely known books of the mid-century, was the work of a woman: the middle-class evangelical Miss Catherine Marsh’s biography of her friend ...
Trev Broughton
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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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 Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

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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