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Robin Wagner-Pacifici is Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore College and will be a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School's Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 2007. She is the author of several books and articles exploring the symbolic and discursive aspects of transitions into and out of violence. Her most recent book is The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End (University of Chicago, 2005), and her current project examines changes in the official understanding of “defense” in United States strategic policy.
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Wagner-Pacifici, R. The Heavy Lifting of Reasons in the World of Why?. Qual Sociol 29, 535–538 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-006-9048-3
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