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UNINA9910807089603321 |
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Stevenson Lisa |
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Life beside itself : imagining care in the Canadian Arctic / / Lisa Stevenson |
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-520-28294-9 |
0-520-95855-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Inuit - Medical care - Canada - History |
Tuberculosis - Canada - History |
Inuit - Health and hygiene - Canada - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Facts and Images -- 2. Cooperating -- 3. Anonymous Care -- 4. Life-of-the-Name -- 5. Why Two Clocks? -- 6. Song -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Illustrations -- Index |
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In Life Beside Itself, Lisa Stevenson takes us on a haunting ethnographic journey through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic (1940's to the early 1960's) and the subsequent suicide epidemic (1980's to the present). Along the way, Stevenson troubles our commonsense understanding of what life is and what it means to care for the life of another. Through close attention to the images in which we think and dream and through which we understand the world, Stevenson describes a world in which life is beside itself: the name-soul of a teenager who dies in a crash lives again in his friend's newborn baby, a young girl shares a last smoke with a dead friend in a dream, and the possessed hands of a clock spin uncontrollably over its face. In these contexts, humanitarian policies make little sense because they attempt to save lives by merely keeping a body alive. For the Inuit, and perhaps for all of us, life is "somewhere else," and the task is to articulate forms |
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of care for others that are adequate to that truth. |
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UNINA9910819008103321 |
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Autore |
Weiss Linda (Linda M.) |
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America inc.? : innovation and enterprise in the national security state / / Linda Weiss |
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Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-8014-7112-5 |
0-8014-7930-4 |
0-8014-7113-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 pages) |
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Cornell Studies in Political Economy |
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Military-industrial complex - United States |
National security - United States - 21st century |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. The National Security State and Technology Leadership -- 2. Rise of the National Security State as Technology Enterprise -- 3. Investing in New Ventures -- 4. Beyond Serendipity: Procuring Transformative Technology -- 5. Reorienting the Public-Private Partnership -- 6. No More Breakthroughs? -- 7. Hybridization and American Antistatism -- 8. Penetrating the Myths of the Military-Commercial Relationship -- 9. Hybrid State, Hybrid Capitalism, Great Power Turning Point -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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For more than half a century, the United States has led the world in developing major technologies that drive the modern economy and underpin its prosperity. In America, Inc., Linda Weiss attributes the U.S. capacity for transformative innovation to the strength of its national security state, a complex of agencies, programs, and hybrid arrangements that has developed around the institution of permanent defense preparedness and the pursuit of technological supremacy. She |
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examines how that complex emerged and how it has evolved in response to changing geopolitical threats and domestic political constraints, from the Cold War period to the post-9/11 era. Weiss focuses on state-funded venture capital funds, new forms of technology procurement by defense and security-related agencies, and innovation in robotics, nanotechnology, and renewable energy since the 1980's. Weiss argues that the national security state has been the crucible for breakthrough innovations, a catalyst for entrepreneurship and the formation of new firms, and a collaborative network coordinator for private-sector initiatives. Her book appraises persistent myths about the military-commercial relationship at the core of the National Security State. Weiss also discusses the implications for understanding U.S. capitalism, the American state, and the future of American primacy as financialized corporations curtail investment in manufacturing and innovation. |
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