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Open Secrets, Congressional Oversight, And The Geopolitics Of The Cia Drone Program, Marita C. Murphy
Open Secrets, Congressional Oversight, And The Geopolitics Of The Cia Drone Program, Marita C. Murphy
Theses and Dissertations--Geography
Analyzing four congressional hearings that publicly discuss the CIA’s ‘secret’ drone program, this thesis considers the interaction between publicity and secrecy in facilitating practices of later-modern warfare. Specifically, I examine the content of these drone hearings within the broader context of leaks, Obama administration speeches, and public interest in CIA drones to better understand how open secrecy engages with public oversight. I argue these hearings are deceptively productive. While they largely fail as oversight events, the hearings facilitate numerous unexpected outcomes—including the normalization and entrenchment of the CIA drone program. Paradoxically then, publicity proves essential to the maintenance and acceptance …
Works Of Dr. P. P. Karan 1960-2016, Brad Allard
Works Of Dr. P. P. Karan 1960-2016, Brad Allard
Library Student Employees' Research
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The Working Lives And Spatial Practice Of Digital Media Developers In San Francisco, Daniel G. Cockayne
The Working Lives And Spatial Practice Of Digital Media Developers In San Francisco, Daniel G. Cockayne
Theses and Dissertations--Geography
In this dissertation I examine work practices in the 21st Century, looking in particular at how categories such as labor and value are changing in the context of technological shifts and the valorization of entrepreneurial work. I take the example of digital media workers in San Francisco to show how work is changing in relation to correlative changes in the capitalist mode of production and the devaluation of labor under neoliberal models of reason. This approach interrogates how attachments toward work are produced and reproduced to ask why work has become such a naturalized and unquestionable category in everyday life. …
Changing Geography Of Retailing In Japan: Move From Traditional Shopping Arcades To Malls, Adam Peach
Changing Geography Of Retailing In Japan: Move From Traditional Shopping Arcades To Malls, Adam Peach
Kaleidoscope
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