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:Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical 梅尔·卡哈内:《一个美国犹太激进分子的公共生活和政治思想》

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723674

P. Mendes-Flohr

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Ecomedia in the Wild: Camera Traps, Geiger Counters, and Radioactive Boars 野外生态媒体：相机陷阱、盖革计数器和放射性船

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723627

D. O'Neill

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:The Digitally Disposed: Racial Capitalism and the Informatics of Value 数字化处理:种族资本主义和价值信息学

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723669

B. Geoghegan

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:Planetary Longings :行星渴望

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723671

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

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Toward Dematerialization: Light, Medium, Environment 走向去物质化：光、介质、环境

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723719

A. Somaini

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On the Fence: Media, Ecology, Marx 围栏上：媒介、生态学、马克思

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723721

Reinhold Martin

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:Modern Times: Temporality in Art and Politics 《现代:艺术与政治中的时间性》

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723665

D. Panagia

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:Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation ：陌生小说：阿拉伯语翻译小说史

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723672

Dima Ayoub

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Introduction: Medium/Environment 作品简介:中/环境

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723667

Weihong Bao, J. Gaboury, Daniel Morgan

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:The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 《黑人生活的问题:种族数据的美学实验，1880-1930》

IF 1.7 2区社会学

Critical Inquiry Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/723670

Britt Rusert

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