Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship

Hale, Charles R., ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.

A product of the SSRC-MacArthur Program on Global Security and Cooperation, this volume maps the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet . . .

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La Diaspora Cubana en México: Terceros Espacios y Miradas Excéntricas

Weimer, Tanya. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.

By looking to the Cuban-produced narrative in Mexico, 2004 IDRF Fellow Tanya Weimer considers the different perspectives . . .

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Building the Borderlands: A Transnational History of Irrigated Cotton along the Mexico-Texas Border

Walsh, Casey. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

By drawing on previously unexplored archival sources, 1997 IDRF Fellow Casey Walsh explores the complex relationships among various groups comprising the “social field” . . .

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Reputation and International Cooperation: Sovereign Debt Across Three Centuries

Tomz, Michael. Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 2007.

How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy? 1997 IDRF Fellow Michael Tomz offers a new perspective on this elemental question . . .

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Social Democracy Inside Out: Government Partisanship, Insiders, and Outsiders in Industrialized Democracies

Rueda, David. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

It is a commonly held assumption that social democratic governments will defend the interests of labor. In Social Democracy Inside Out, 1999 IDRF Fellow David Rueda challenges that idea . . .

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Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898-1956

Román, Reinaldo. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

In Governing Spirits, 1997 IDRF Fellow Reinaldo L. Roman explores the changing relationship between those who regulate religious expression and those who practice religion in neocolonial Cuba . . .

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Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization (California World History Library)

Prestholdt, Jeremy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.

This book, by 1999 IDRF Fellow Jeremy Prestholdt, destabilizes the idea of globalization as a recent phenomenon driven by Western interests . . .

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Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India

Pinto, Sarah. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.

Examined through a framework of access to care that focuses on emotion, domestic spaces, illicit and extra-institutional biomedicine, and interpersonal relationships, 2000 IDRF Fellow Sarah Pinto . . .

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Peacebuilding in the Balkans: The view from the Ground Floor

Pickering, Paula. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007.

In Peacebuilding in the Balkans, 1998 IDRF Fellow Paula M. Pickering challenges the notion that common people are merely passive recipients of peacebuilding . . .

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Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil

Ondetti, Gabriel. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.

In this work, 1999 IDRF Fellow Gabriel Ondetti engages in a critical dialogue with contemporary political opportunity theory . . .

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