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From Non-places to Places: Transforming Partition Rehabilitation Camps Through the Gendered Quotidian:
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The political partition of India in 1947 into a truncated India and the dominion of Pakistan witnessed a wave of forced migration, hitherto unseen in human history as discussed by the authors, and the alteration of a singular nat...Abstract:
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Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
TL;DR: In this paper, the author offers a bland narrative of the experience of modern life, for example, on the supermarket: "The customer wanders round in silence, reads labels, weighs fruit and vegetables on a machine that gives the price along with the weight, then hands his credit card to a young woman as silent as himself, not very chatty, who runs each article past the sensor of a decoding machine before checking the validity of the customer's credit card" (pp.99-100).
A Sense of Space
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce three types of collaboration at Dickinson: innovation, collaboration, and innovation and collaboration. And they introduce them to three of the most popular types of collaborations at the company.
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Subversive stories and hegemonic tales: toward a sociology of narrative
Patricia Ewick,Susan S. Silbey +1 more
TL;DR: Les AA. as mentioned in this paper argue that narration is un acte social, un discours social qui depend pour sa production comme pour sa reception de normes, i.e., le place, le moment, le maniere, et la maniere par laquelle il doit etre formule.
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The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
TL;DR: The Other Side of Silence as discussed by the authors explores the human dimensions of the partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, by examining diaries, letters, memoirs, and parliamentary documents.
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Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity
TL;DR: In this paper, the author offers a bland narrative of the experience of modern life, for example, on the supermarket: "The customer wanders round in silence, reads labels, weighs fruit and vegetables on a machine that gives the price along with the weight, then hands his credit card to a young woman as silent as himself, not very chatty, who runs each article past the sensor of a decoding machine before checking the validity of the customer's credit card" (pp.99-100).
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At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relationship between cosmopolitanism and the Explorer's Eye and the Sublimation of Poverty: New York's Lower East Side "Marcos" and Cortazar: Two Alternatives to Contemporary Travel Narrative.
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Reclaiming ‘Bare Life’?: Against Agamben on Refugees
TL;DR: The authors argued that if refugee populations are not to face some inexorable trend toward a rule of exception, then it will not be through reclaiming "bare life" but through the ability to forge a public realm grounded on the appropriate distinction between nature and political artifice, between human life and the political world.