Occasional Papers
The Occasional Papers of the School of Social Science are drawn from the weekly seminar, where Members present work-in-progress and then take questions. Our aim is to capture the cross-disciplinary conversations that are the mark of the School's programs. While the papers differ widely in their topics, methods, and disciplines, they concur in a broadly humanistic attempt to understand how, and under what conditions, the concepts that order experience in different cultures and societies are produced, and how they change.
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October 2022, Paper Number 68
Rethinking Politics and Freedom in the Anthropocene
Wendy Brown
April 2022, Paper Number 67
Eugenics and the Indeterminacy of Genetic Determinism
Emily Merchant
November 2020, Paper Number 66
Master Peace: Techno-Moral Cosmopolitanisms and the Crisis of Critique
Nikolas Kosmatopoulos
September 2019, Paper Number 65
Invoking Healing, or How to Think Therapeutically
Ed Cohen
November 2018, Paper Number 64
Environment: Critical Reflections on the Concept
David Bond
April 2018, Paper Number 63
The Economy of the Mysteries: Administering Sacramental Wealth in the Age of Lights
Charly Coleman
March 2018, Paper Number 62
The European Common Market: “A New Frontier” for U.S. Business Leaders or an “Economic Frankenstein”?
Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl
February 2018, Paper Number 61
Together, Apart: Suspect Lives in West Bank Refugee Camps and Israeli “Mixed” Cities
Silvia Pasquetti
January 2018, Paper Number 60
Make Yourselves Gods: Sex, Secularism, and the Radiant Body of Early Mormonism
Peter Coviello
April 2017, Paper Number 59
Theorizing about Torture
Nick Cheesman
March 2017, Paper Number 58
Precarious Hope, Migrant Legalization, and the Limits of Affect Theory
Ayşe Parla
May 2016, Paper Number 57
Forms of Attachment and Politics of Voice: Migrant Experiences and Institution Interactions in Northern Chile
Angel Aedo
This title is available only through the author, who can be contacted at jaedog@ias.edu.
March 2016, Paper Number 56
Our Corporate Civilization and its Neoliberal Crisis
David Ciepley
January 2016, Paper Number 55
Life Lived in Relief: Palestinian Refugees and the Humanitarian Experience
Ilana Feldman
June 2015, Paper Number 54
Great Expectations: The Ambiguity of Social Whitening in Colombia
Mara Viveros Vigoya
July 2014, Paper Number 53
Consuming Citizenship: Prepaid Meters and the Politics of Technology in Mumbai
Nikhil Anand
May 2014, Paper Number 52
Thinking Like an Economist: On Expertise and the U.S. Policy Process
Elizabeth Popp Berman
February 2014, Paper Number 51
Situating the Amazon in World Politics
Manuela Picq
April 2013, Paper Number 50
A Bias for Hope. Commemorating the Life of Albert O. Hirschman
March 2013, Paper Number 49
The Moral World of Law Enforcement
Didier Fassin
February 2013, Paper Number 48
Towards an Anthropology of Actually Existing Alterity in the Gran Chaco
Lucas Bessire
This title is available only through the author, who can be contacted at lucas.b.bessire@itg.ias.edu.
December 2012, Paper Number 47
The Injury of Nostalgia, or The Stories a Gang Tells Itself
Laurence Ralph
June 2012, Paper Number 46
Gandhi and the Means-Ends Question in Politics
Karuna Mantena
April 2012, Paper Number 45
Sex, Trafficking, and the Politics of Freedom
Elizabeth Bernstein
March 2012, Paper Number 44
Who Are We? What Louisiana Can Teach Us About Being American
Angel Adams Parham
December 2011, Paper Number 43
Power, Sex, and Furniture: Masculinity and the Bachelor Pad in 1950s-60s America
Jessica Ellen Sewell
May 2011, Paper Number 42
From Rasse to Race: On the Problem of Difference in the Federal Republic of Germany
Rita Chin
December 2010, Paper Number 41
Religion, Land, and Rights
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
October 2010, Paper Number 40
A Tale of Two Planets? Policy-Making and Actual Classrooms: The Case of Teaching to Think in Civics Education
Anat Zohar
September 2010, Paper Number 39
Monogamy in Islam: The Case of a Tunisian Marriage Contract
Dalenda Largueche
April 2010, Paper Number 38
"A Nation of Immigrants": The Cold War and Civil Rights Origins of Illegal Immigration
Mae M. Ngai
September 2009, Paper Number 37
Divided Fates: The State, Race, and Adaptation of Korean Immigrants in Japan and the United States
Kazuko Suzuki
May 2009, Paper Number 36
Florida Seminoles and the Cultural Politics of the Everglades
Jessica R. Cattelino
February 2009, Paper Number 35
The Anthropology of Anarchy
Charles J-H Macdonald
October 2008, Paper Number 34
Madness is Civilization: Psycho Politics and Postwar America
Michael E. Staub
April 2008, Paper Number 33
Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern
Jonathan Hyslop
March 2008, Paper Number 32--This article was awarded the 2010 Cultural Horizons Prize by the Society for Cultural Anthropology.
Potato Ontology: Surviving Postsocialism in Russia
Nancy Ries
This title is available only in hard copy upon request.
February 2008, Paper Number 31
What is International Human Rights Law? Three Applications of a Distributive Account
Patrick Macklem
October 2007, Paper Number 30
"Red" and "Good"
Hagit Benbaji
April 2007, Paper Number 29
The Shariatization of Pakistani Nationalism
Farzana Shaikh
This title is available only in hard copy upon request
January 2007, Paper Number 28
Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe
Kristen Ghodsee
This title is available only in hard copy upon request.
November 2006, Paper Number 27
Democracy's Identity Problem: Is "Constitutional Patriotism" the Answer?
Clarissa Rile Hayward
October 2006, Paper Number 26
Placebo Effects of Marketing Actions: Consumers May Get What They Pay For
Baba Shiv, Ziv Carmon and Dan Ariely
April 2006, Paper Number 25
Rivalry and Friendship in the Heterosexual Couple. Challenges to Discourses of Society in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Europe
Caroline Arni
March 2006, Paper Number 24
Social Scientific Citizens: Surveys, Statistics, and the Public in Modern America
Sarah E. Igo
January 2006, Paper Number 23
Nature, Property, and Democracy in the Debate over Genetically Modified Organisms
John M. Meyer
October 2005, Paper Number 22
Drug Development and the Ethics of the Globalized Clinical Trial
Adriana Petryna
April 2005, Paper Number 21
Clean Elections and the Great Unwashed: Vote Buying and Voter Education in the Philippines
Frederic Charles Schaffer
February 2005, Paper Number 20
Continuity and Change in the Study of Medical Error: The Culture of Safety on the Shop Floor
Charles L. Bosk
December 2004, Paper Number 19
A Tool to Recover Past Histories": Genealogy and Identity after the Genome
Nadia Abu El-Haj
September 2004, Paper Number 18
Certifying Knowledge: Sociology of a Logical Theorem in the Field of Artificial Intelligence
Claude Rosental
April 2004, Paper Number 17
The Political Economy of the Brazilian Struggle Against AIDS
Jose Serra
November 2003, Paper Number 16
Working the Border in Ghana: Technologies of Sovereignty and its Others
Brenda Chalfin
June 2003, Paper Number 15
The Incumbent Protection Act of 2002?: Politics Under the New Campaign Finance Law
Michael Johnston
February 2003, Paper Number 14
Information Technologies and the Social Sciences: Papers from the SSS Workshop
Thomas Streeter and Michael Fortun
September 2002, Paper Number 13
The Tools of the Master: Slavery and Empire in Nineteenth Century Egypt
Eve Troutt Powell
December 2001, Paper Number 12
The Near East in the Far East: On Islam in Indonesia
Clifford Geertz
September 2001, Paper Number 11
Is Majority Rule The Best Election Method?
Eric Maskin
May 2001, Paper Number 10
AIDS, Witchcraft, and the Problem of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Adam Ashforth
January 2001, Paper Number 9
The Judicial Rhetoric of Morality: Israel’s High Court of Justice on the Legality of Torture
Anat Biletzki
June 2000, Paper Number 8
International Society: What is the Best That We Can Do?
Michael Walzer
March 2000, Paper Number 7
Exile and Emigration: The Survival of "German Culture"
Wolf Lepenies
January 2000, Paper Number 6
Diversity in Globalization: Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea and Spain
Mauro F. Guillén
November 1999, Paper Number 5
"Anger Be Now Thy Song": The Anthropology of an Event
Steven C. Caton
May 1999, Paper Number 4
Métissage: The Emerging of Theater and Politics in Revolutionary France
Paul Friedland
April 1999, Paper Number 3
Nations, Tribes, and Colours: Metaphors Toward a History for the 21st Century*
James F. Brooks
*Note: At the request of the author, this paper is not available electronically. If you would like to obtain a copy, please contact the Series Editor.
March 1999, Paper Number 2
The Conundrum of Equality
Joan W. Scott
February 1999, Paper Number 1
Welfare State and Production Regimes in the Era of Retrenchment
Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens
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