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writing and teaching histories of 19 and 20c South Asia and Indian Ocean Worlds.
pinned post!
Boats in a Storm gets an India edition with Westland Books
@westlandbooks.bsky.social
! Releasing on 18 August.
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Happy publication month,
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www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Fear of the False by Mitra Sharafi | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Fear of the False uncovers colonial South Asia's critical role in the development of forensic science. Around 1900, the government of British India created a web of institutions for the scientific det...
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785979/fear-of-the-false/#bookTabs=4
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Mitra Sharafi
11 days ago
Big news, everyone!! The ASLH has created a new dissertation prize for non-US legal history: the Global Dissertation Prize
aslh.net/award/global...
Eligible authors for this cycle must have received their doctoral degree in *2025.* Deadline: 1 June 2026. Please spread the word &/or submit your work!
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https://aslh.net/award/global-dissertation-prize/Eligible
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Sri Lanka ready to welcome and support refugees from India: Minister Bimal Rathnayake
Sri Lanka's Minister Bimal Rathnayake announces support for Indian refugees, urging political sensitivity from Tamil Nadu and India.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/sri-lanka-ready-to-welcome-and-support-refugees-from-india-minister-bimal-rathnayake/article70758425.ece
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Donal Coffey
17 days ago
Today marked the launch of the Asian Legal History Association, with the secretariat at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Maynooth School of Law and Criminology is one of the founding institutional members. Further details about the Association and its activities here:
web.law.cuhk.edu.hk/ALHA/
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Happy publication day,
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Hidetaka Hirota
23 days ago
If you study legal history, please consider submitting a proposal for the 2026 conference of the American Society for Legal History in Banff, Canada in November! The Program Committee accepts proposals until March 24!
#ASLH
#legalhistory
🗃️
aslh.net/2026-annual-...
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2026 Annual Meeting Call for Papers | American Society for Legal History
Call for Papers 2026 American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting (November 12 - 14, 2026) The Program Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the 2026 meeting t...
https://aslh.net/2026-annual-meeting-call-for-papers/
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Su Lin Lewis
23 days ago
We have a zine! Over the past year, I've been working w/ Pusat Sejarah Rakyat and the International Institute of Social History to bring together organisations around Southeast Asia working on archiving and disseminating "people's histories" and the histories of social movements in the region. 1/4
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Vindhya Buthpitiya
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The sinking of the IRIS Dena by a US submarine just 19 nautical miles from Sri Lanka’s shore in its Exclusive Economic Zone has forced Colombo to navigate one of the most complex diplomatic and legal crises in its recent history
www.sundaytimes.lk/260308/news/...
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Mayday, mayday: How US-Iran conflict unfolded in Sri Lanka’s economic zone
https://www.sundaytimes.lk/260308/news/mayday-mayday-how-us-iran-conflict-unfolded-in-sri-lankas-economic-zone-633822.html
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Elizabeth D. Katz
28 days ago
I'm excited to be chairing the American Society for Legal History Projects and Proposals Committee this cycle. We look forward to receiving funding applications for conferences, museum exhibits, pedagogical experiments, and more! We are accepting submissions until Sept. 1.
aslh.net/award/projec...
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Projects and Proposals Funding | American Society for Legal History
The Projects and Proposals Committee of the American Society for Legal History invites proposals for the funding of new initiatives in the study, presentation, and production of legal historical schol...
https://aslh.net/award/projects-and-proposals-funding/
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Brymo
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Macro Photograph of an Abalone Shell #1143 taken 2:02 pm
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From The Ground Up
about 1 month ago
Tansen Sen will be in
#Vancouver
for the 2026
@asianstudies.org
conference! Please join us on Wednesday March 11, 2026, 5pm, where he will present a talk for the Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series at UBC Asian Centre, Room 604
frogbear.org/yin-cheng-di...
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Saima Nasar
about 1 month ago
Happy publication day to
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’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
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I put on my lawyer hat for this piece on time limits under Indian citizenship legislation, and ongoing constitutional challenges in the Indian Supreme Court for Statelessness and Citizenship Review:
statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/jo...
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View of Citizenship on Pause? The Ambiguities Surrounding Termination of Citizenship in India
https://statelessnessandcitizenshipreview.com/index.php/journal/article/view/751/455
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Journal of Historical Geography
10 months ago
Vol. 88 (50th Anniversary) Pt. II: ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ special issue Introduction by editors
@jakehodder.bsky.social
and
@snehakrishnan.bsky.social
Read it here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.05.018
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Nick Sousanis
3 months ago
In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here
spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
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Socio-Legal Review has call for papers for a special issue on Law and History in South Asia:
repository.nls.ac.in/slr/news.html
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Call for Papers: Vol. 22 (2) Law and History in South Asia | Socio-Legal Review (SLR) | Journals | National Law School of India University
https://repository.nls.ac.in/slr/news.html
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SC hearing on CAA highlights: Supreme Court to hear pleas challenging constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act
Follow The Hindu's coverage of Supreme Court hearing on pleas challenging constitutional validity of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/supreme-court-hearing-on-petitions-against-citizenship-amendment-act-caa-live-updates-february-19-2026/article70650577.ece
about 1 month ago
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Dr. Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi
about 2 months ago
Excited to be speaking at @UniofExeter's CGS Virtual Seminar Series on "Portuguese Black Serpents Meet Safavid Dragons: The Intellectual World of Indian Ocean Imperialism." 🐉🐍 Register here:
universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Human Rights Watch
2 months ago
The trial of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is set to start this week. The Cutro shipwreck trial is a crucial opportunity to secure truth and justice for survivors and families of victims.
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Italy: Shipwreck Trial Opportunity For Justice
(Milan, January 27, 2026) – The trial, due to start this week, of 6 Italian officers for a 2023 shipwreck in which at least 94 people died is an important opportunity for justice for deaths of migrant...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/01/27/italy-shipwreck-trial-opportunity-for-justice
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It was a pleasure to review Reeju Ray's Placing the Frontier in British Northeast India: Law, Custom and Knowledge for Law and History Review
@lawandhistrev.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Reeju Ray , Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 224, £88.00 Hardback (ISBN 9780192887085). | Law and History Review...
Reeju Ray , Placing the Frontier in British North-East India: Law, Custom, and Knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 224, £88.00 Hardback (ISBN 9780192887085).
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-history-review/article/reeju-ray-placing-the-frontier-in-british-northeast-india-law-custom-and-knowledge-oxford-oxford-university-press-2023-pp-224-8800-hardback-isbn-9780192887085/52458667B3492597E1557C7223BEA8FE?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark
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Seeing Cuttack
"The tenor of this city’s language was arranged carefully to suit a specific aural temperament that was a need for some; the colourful pastiche of the city was hidden. When the memory of a city is rec...
https://www.theindiaforum.in/culture/seeing-cuttack
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Its publication month for Lindsey Stephenson's Belonging on Both Shores!
@supmktg.bsky.social
www.sup.org/books/middle...
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Belonging on Both Shores | Stanford University Press
For most of their history, the people around the Persian Gulf littoral were socially intertwined and economically interdependent. But the twentieth century ushered in nationalization projects, British...
https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/belonging-both-shores
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Now reading.
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"Climate change may be measured in carbon, but its mother tongue is water"
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Congratulations, Julia!
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Rethinking Climate Migration
A new climate adaptation model introduced by Yale School of the Environment Assistant Professor Brianna Castro and a global team of researchers reframes “move or stay” decisions, introducing a third framework of “tethered resilience.”
https://environment.yale.edu/news/article/rethinking-climate-migration?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=YT_Yale%20Today%20Alum%20no%20Parents_12-16-2025
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Why Review? (opinion)
We review because it’s what we do, and it’s who we are.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/advancing-faculty/2025/12/09/why-review-opinion?utm_campaign=IHESocialEditorial&utm_content=career_advice_|_why_revie&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=bluesky
4 months ago
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Ashwini Vasanthakumar
over 1 year ago
A quick introduction to new followers: I am a political and legal philosopher working on diasporas and transnationalism, the ethics of immigration control, victims' duties, and transitional justice. My first monograph looked at exile politics,
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Ashwini Vasanthakumar
4 months ago
Reading
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’s incredible Boats in a Storm in Puducherry — history coming alive on and off the page.
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Great Nicobar Island: Hurtling Towards an Environmental Catastrophe
The so-called “Holistic Development” of Great Nicobar Island threatens irreversible ecological damage through massive infrastructural expansion in an area under permanent tectonic strain. It exposes t...
https://www.theindiaforum.in/environment/great-nicobar-island-hurtling-towards-environmental-catastrophe
4 months ago
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Bruno M. Shirley
4 months ago
I wrote a book, it now has a cover, it's all feeling very real! Coming out (open access) in February, for all those with an interest in, well, religion, gender, and/or politics in Sri Lankan history.
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...
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Religion, Gender, and Politics in Medieval Sri Lanka - Arc Humanities Press
The early second millennium was a pivotal moment in the history of Theravāda Buddhism. Religious reforms carried out at Poḷonnaruva, then-capital of Sri L...
https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802703092/religion-gender-and-politics-in-medieval-sri-lanka/
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www.barandbench.com/news/litigat...
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West Bengal SIR: Plea in Supreme Court raises concern that migrants protected by CAA may be left out from voter list
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a plea raising concerns that migrants who are eligible to be deemed as being Indian citizens under the Citizenship
https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/west-bengal-sir-plea-in-supreme-court-raises-concern-that-migrants-protected-by-caa-may-be-left-out-from-voter-list
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Cyclone Ditwah brings worst flooding in decades to Sri Lanka, killing hundreds
Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst flood disasters in two decades, with nearly one million people affected and more than 400 reported dead or missing after Cyclone Ditwah unleashed catastrophic floo...
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166474
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Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies/archive/basement-adventures-showed-me-why-chatgpt-can/
4 months ago
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The New York Times
4 months ago
Jakarta, Indonesia’s vibrant, overcrowded and sinking capital, has displaced Tokyo as the most populated city in the world, according to the UN, thanks to its new way of counting urban populations.
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Jakarta Overtakes Tokyo as World’s Largest City, UN Report Says
The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it measures urban populations.
https://nyti.ms/4p2Wfck
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Erin Grievances
4 months ago
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it!
contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
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Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
https://contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-lists/
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Indian Ocean World Centre
4 months ago
The IOWC is holding a hybrid conference in May 2026! We are currently asking for paper submissions. More details can be found here:
indianoceanworldcentre.com/2026-mapping...
Or via the QR code on the poster.
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Nancy Um
4 months ago
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica
#arthistory
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
https://journalpanorama.org/article/a-trail-of-coins/
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Congratulations,
@mitrasharafi.bsky.social
and
#ASLH
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Lawrence Culver
5 months ago
“The storm hit rural Jamaica hardest – people who are poorest, least protected, and historically marginalised. The same communities shaped by slavery, colonial extraction, and racialised policies are now on the frontline of climate disaster.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
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Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/nov/15/hurricane-melissa-a-real-time-case-study-of-colonialisms-legacies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Mitra Sharafi
5 months ago
Reminder for 2025 Detroit
#ASLH
people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day
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The Belonging Project is off to a fantastic start today! It was wonderful to host Mohsin Alam Bhat, Shardul Gopujkar, and Arushi Gupta, the co-authors of the "Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials":
www.nls.ac.in/wp-content/u..
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society
5 months ago
In case you missed it: There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History (
@illinoispress.bsky.social
) guest edited by
@migrantherstory.bsky.social
and
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social
on "Immigration and Citizenship."
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
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Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/issue/44/4
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A privilege to review Nadeera Rupesinghe's Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka: a must read and instant classic on legal pluralism -
bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view...
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View of Nadeera Rupesinghe, Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka: Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries
https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/24796/26030
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Stanford University Press
5 months ago
Did you miss us at the 2025 Annual Conference on South Asia? You can still enjoy our virtual exhibit: receive a 30% discount on the books listed using the discount code S25CSA at checkout, good between 10/15/2025 - 11/25/2025.
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Conference on South Asia: A Virtual Exhibit | Stanford University Press
Please enjoy this Virtual Book Exhibit and receive a 30% discount on the books listed below using the discount code S25CSA at checkout, good between 10/15/2025 - 11/25/2025.
https://www.sup.org/virtual-exhibit/csa
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A short piece on "forgotten" histories of citizenship for
@scroll.in
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Forgotten migrants, unfinished decolonisation: Why Kalyani Ramnath writes about citizenship history
Ramnath’s book ‘Boats in a Storm’ centres on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life.
https://scroll.in/article/1087269/forgotten-migrants-unfinished-decolonisation-why-kalyani-ramnath-writes-about-citizenship-history
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5 months ago
The 2020 coastal land use map of Great Nicobar showed coral reefs hugging its shores. In the 2021 version, the reefs vanished from the coast and reappeared in the middle of the sea. Experts told Vaishnavi Rathore they doubt the map’s authenticity.
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Ria Kapoor
6 months ago
I have a new article out. TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.
academic.oup.com/past/advance...
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Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*
Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported
https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtaf029/8279985?utm_source=advanceaccess&utm_campaign=past&utm_medium=email
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Vindhya Buthpitiya
6 months ago
my book (!) ‘A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka’ encompassing a decade of research on Tamil photographic practices set against a backdrop of ethno/nationalist conflict & the island’s turbulent post/war out Spring 26
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A Volatile Picture
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295754444/a-volatile-picture/
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