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Joanne Randa Nucho

Joanne Randa Nucho, an anthropologist and filmmaker, is the author of Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power (Princeton University Press, 2016) and associate professor of anthropology at Pomona College. Her films have screened in various venues, including the London International Documentary Film Festival in 2008 and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in 2017. icon

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Succeeding through Failure: Andrew Lakoff on Preparing for Emergencies

By Joanne Randa Nucho

“What is the range of available measures to address our catastrophic future?”

How Versailles Still Haunts the World

By Joanne Randa Nucho

Middle Eastern borders, democratic defeats, the US War on Terror: all this flows from the Treaty of Versailles, now just over a century old.

Failed Infrastructure Is Failed Politics

By Joanne Randa Nucho

In February 2017, California state authorities ordered more than 180,000 residents near Oroville Dam, the tallest in the United States, to evacuate. After ...

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