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Knowledge Held in Common: Tales of Luther Burbank and Science in the American Vernacular
(2001-09)
During the first half of the twentieth century, the horticulturist Luther Burbank was largely considered an irrelevant figure by the scientific community, despite winning acclaim from the public as an eminent scientist. ...
A Distant Jaguar: The Civil Society Project in Chimalapas
(Critique of Anthropology, 2001-12-01)
Civil society has become an important unit of analysis in the context of the globalization of politics and political discourse and the decentralization of nation-states. At a discursive level, it is a concept which elides ...
Russia's Passive Army: Rethinking Military Coups
(Comparative Political Studies, 2001-10-01)
Military coups are considered most likely when state political capacity is low and the army's corporate interests are threatened. However, these conditions are also frequently present in situations in which the military ...