Contemporary Sociology-A Journal of Reviews

Papers
(The TQCC of Contemporary Sociology-A Journal of Reviews is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science, by DromiShai M.StablerSamuel D.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 239 pp. $27.23
Studying Immigration during Xenophobic Times8
Building Downtown Los Angeles: The Politics of Race and Place in Urban America3
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam2
Index Of Reviews, Essays, Briefly Noted Books, And Comments For Volume 522
Measuring Culture2
The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements2
Governing the Urban in China and India: Land Grabs, Slum Clearance, and the War on Air Pollution1
Flooded: Development, Democracy, and Brazil's Belo Monte Dam1
The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy1
Political Activist Ethnography: Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle Political Activist Ethnography: Studies in the Social Relations of Struggle, edited by DollAgnieszkaBisaillonLauraWalbyKevin1
Du Bois: A Critical Introduction1
Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy, by GhilarducciTeresa.Chicago: University of Chicago Press1
Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area1
Affective Capitalism in Academia: Revealing Public Secrets Affective Capitalism in Academia: Revealing Public Secrets, edited by NehringDanielBrunilaKristiina. Bristol, UK: Policy Press, 2023. 256 pp.1
A Research Agenda for COVID-19 and Society1
Schooled and Sorted: How Educational Categories Create Inequality1
Teaching Fear: How We Learn to Fear Crime and Why It Matters1
Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music1
Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice1
Ageism, Generational Rhetoric, and the Rhetoric of “Generation”1
The Racialization of Sexism: Men, Women and Gender in the Populist Radical Right The Racialization of Sexism: Men, Women and Gender in the Populist Radical Right, by ScrinziFrancesca. New York: Routle1
Islam, Justice, and Democracy1
Reconsidering the Evidence of Evidence-Based Medicine in Trans Health Research1
Shape Shifters: Journeys across Terrains of Race and Identity1
Index of Reviews by Category1
Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future1
Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush1
Index of Reviews by Category1
Beyond the Case: The Logics and Practices of Comparative Ethnography1
Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past Interpreting Contentious Memory: Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past, edited by DeGlomaThomasJacobsJa1
Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism1
Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants1
Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan1
Militarized Global Apartheid0
Electric Mountains: Climate, Power, and Justice in an Energy Transition0
Contesting the Global Order: The Radical Political Economy of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein0
Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice Masking in the Pandemic: Materiality, Interaction, and Moral Practice, by AbbottOwenMayVanessaWoodwardSophieMeckinRobertGilmanLeah0
Tacit Racism0
Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability Unsustainable: Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability, by ArcherMatthew. New York: New Yor0
Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence0
Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families, by Kw0
You’re Paid What You’re Worth, and Other Myths of the Modern Economy0
Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish0
The Impact of College Diversity: Struggles and Successes at Age 300
Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools0
Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream Parenting in Privilege or Peril: How Social Inequality Enables or Derails the American Dream, by BennettPam0
Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America0
Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties0
Handbook on Participatory Action Research and Community Development0
States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan, by MartínezJosé Ciro. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 0
Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems in 21st-Century World Society: Differentiation, Inclusion, Responsiveness0
When Care Is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net When Care Is Conditional: Immigrants and the U.S. Safety Net, by CarrilloDani.New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2024. 195 pp. $35.00 paper0
Poverty as Subsistence: The World Bank and Pro-Poor Land Reform in Eurasia0
Capitalisms and Gay Identities0
Elites, Non-Elites, and Political Realism: Diminishing Futures for Western Societies0
Undoing Motherhood: Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity Undoing Motherhood: Collaborative Reproduction and the Deinstitutionalization of U.S. Maternity, by John0
The “Anti-Gender Movement,” Capitalism, and the Left0
There’s Downward Mobility among White People? Who Knew?!0
Publications Received0
In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics from the Global South, by ValleFiruzeh Shokooh. Stan0
Critical Political Economy Meets Historical Institutionalism in the Study of Asian Precarity: Assets and Liabilities of a Methodological Hybrid0
Blood, Powder, and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof0
An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi0
Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century0
When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age0
Publications Received0
Monstrous Ontologies: Politics, Ethics, Materiality0
Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range0
The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance, by ToshSarah. New Y0
Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America0
Welfare Deservingness and Welfare Policy: Popular Deservingness Opinions and their Interaction with Welfare State Policies0
From the Inside Out: The Fight for Environmental Justice within Government Agencies0
Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution0
Breaking Conventions: Five Couples in Search of Marriage-Career Balance at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century0
Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right0
Index of Reviews by Category0
Webbed Connectivities: The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality0
Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age0
Amateurs without Borders: The Aspirations and Limits of Global Compassion0
Gendered Power in Child Welfare: What’s Care Got to Do with It Gendered Power in Child Welfare: What’s Care Got to Do with It? by MooreChrista JaneGagn’Patricia. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 2000
Making the Immigrant Soldier: How Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender Intersect in the U.S. Military0
Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas0
Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity0
The Social Significance of Dining Out: A Study of Continuity and Change0
Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification0
How the Shopping Cart Explains Global Consumerism0
Behind the Midwestern Curtain0
The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic0
Index of Reviews by Category0
Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration: Spousal Relationships among Somali Muslims in the United Kingdom0
The New White Nationalism in Politics and Higher Education: The Nostalgia Spectrum0
Empires, Colonialism, and the Global South in Sociology0
Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms0
What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists0
Doing Gender in Heavy Metal: Perceptions on Women in a Hypermasculine Subculture0
Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity, by GiuffreKatherine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 210 pp. $26.00 paper. ISBN: 97815030
Immigration Policies and Real People: Deciphering the Consequences of Laws Behind Crimmigration: ICE, Law Enforcement, and Resistance in America, by ArriagaFelicia. Chapel Hill: University of North Ca0
Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change0
The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Cultures, and the Power of Local Commitments0
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice0
The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics0
Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia’s Premier Erotic Playground, by WeitzerRonald. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 352 pp. 0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon0
Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation, by AndrewsAbigail. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 216 pp. $0
Author’s Response0
The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education, edited by ClayKevin L.HenryKevin LawrenceJr. Minneapolis: Unive0
Sociology in Post-Normal Times0
How China Is Governed0
School Zone: A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization0
Prisons of Debt: The Afterlives of Incarcerated Fathers0
Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa Naturalizing Inequality: Water, Race, and Biopolitics in South Africa, by MarcatelliMichela. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 0
Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse0
The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin0
Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, by JackAnthony Abraham. Princeton, NJ: Princeto0
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades0
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals0
Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism, edited by OeurFreeden BlumePascoeC. J.. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 288 pp. $30.00 paper. IS0
Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden0
A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio, by Korver-GlennElizabethMayorgaSarah. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,0
From Residency to Retirement: Physicians’ Careers over a Professional Lifetime0
How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual0
Segregation0
Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with U.S. Women of Color Feminism0
The Labor of Lunch: Why We Need Real Food and Real Jobs in American Public Schools0
After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociology, edited by WilsonNicholas HooverMayrlDamon. New York: Colu0
Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies0
Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property0
Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism, by HallNatalie-Anne. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 234 pp. $100.00 cloth. ISBN: 970
Ownership of Knowledge: Beyond Intellectual Property0
Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units0
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy0
Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life0
No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States0
Rebellion in America: Citizen Uprisings, the News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy0
Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves Making Our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves, by GalsterGeorge C.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 413 pp. $40.00 paper. ISBN: 9780226829395.0
From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State From Forest Farm to Sawmill: Stories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State, by ZhouShuxuan. Seattle: University of Washin0
Modern Day Mary Poppins: The Unintended Consequences of Nanny Work0
Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-1990s Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China0
Fear, Justice, and Modern True Crime0
Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration Reform Nation: The First Step Act and the Movement to End Mass Incarceration, by ErenColleen P.. Stanford, CA: Stanford Uni0
Crazy Fun or Crazy Exploitation? Cultural and Social Reproduction in the Elite Party Scene0
Seeking a Research-Ethics Covenant in the Social Sciences Seeking a Research-Ethics Covenant in the Social Sciences, by van den HoonaardWill C.. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2023. 146 pp. $40
What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic, by StraussClaudia. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 2024. 372 pp. $35.95 paper. ISBN: 9781501775512.0
Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg0
Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State0
Untangling the Ties That Bind0
Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-Income Countries0
The Social Side Effects of the Pill: “Gendered Compulsory Birth Control” and Reproductive Injustice0
The Politics of Crime Prevention: Race, Public Opinion, and the Meaning of Community Safety0
Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles0
Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine0
Sociology and the Holocaust: A Discipline Grapples with History Sociology and the Holocaust: A Discipline Grapples with History, by BergerRonald J.. New York: Routledge, 2024. 240 pp. $46.95 paper. IS0
Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition0
Publications Received0
Bodies Out of Place: Theorizing Anti-blackness in U.S. Society0
Youth Prospects in the Digital Society: Identities and Inequalities in an Unravelling Europe0
The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice, by StewartMahala Dyer. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 229 p0
Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes0
Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life0
Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West0
A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity A Precarious Happiness: Adorno and the Sources of Normativity, by GordonPeter E.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. 320 pages. $400
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the U.S. West0
Living Worth: Value and Values in Global Pharmaceutical Markets0
Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector0
Publications Received0
Why Religion Is Good for American Democracy0
Index of Reviews and Essays for Volume 530
Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream0
Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt, by SaidAtef Shahat. Durham, NC:0
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States0
Advanced Introduction to Social Capital0
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta, by ImmergluckDan. Oakland: University of Californ0
Tropes of Intolerance: Pride, Prejudice, and the Politics of Fear0
Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States0
Precarious Privilege: Race and the Middle-Class Immigrant Experience Precarious Privilege: Race and the Middle-Class Immigrant Experience, by BrowneIrene. New York: Russell Sage, 2024. 229 pp. $39.95 0
The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps0
The Economic Red Shift0
Male Femininities0
Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education0
Love, Money and Obligation: Transnational Marriage in a Northeastern Thai Village0
Xi Jinping's Anti-Corruption Campaign: The Politics of Revenge0
Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South: Conversations with a Damn Yankee0
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea0
Revolution and Authoritarianism Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism, by LevitskyStevenWayLucan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 638 pp. $39.950
Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States0
Chasing the American Dream in China: Chinese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland0
Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America0
Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds: The Transformations of Mexico’s Narco Cartels0
The Rainbow after the Storm: Marriage Equality and Social Change in the U.S.0
Race in the Machine: A Novel Account0
GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding, by SchneiderhanErikLukkMartin. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 230 p0
Borders of Belief: Religious Nationalism and the Formation of Identity in Ireland and Turkey0
Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality Patchwork Apartheid: Private Restriction, Racial Segregation, and Urban Inequality, by GordonColin. New York: Russell0
Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century0
Gangs on Trial: Challenging Stereotypes and Demonization in the Courts0
The Comparative Politics of Immigration: Policy Choices in Germany, Canada, Switzerland, and the United States0
Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents0
The Rise of Digital Sex Work The Rise of Digital Sex Work, by FowlerKurt. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 272 pp. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 9781479824205.0
Automation Is a Myth0
The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture Is Ruining Our Society0
Overcoming the Odds: The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates Overcoming the Odds: The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates, by BrandJennie E.New York: Russell Sage F0
A Sociology of Humankind: How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict A Sociology of Humankind: How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict, by BruggemanJeroen. New York: Routl0
Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship0
Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency0
Misplacing Ogden, Utah: Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations0
How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter0
Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #MeToo Era0
Court of Injustice: Law without Recognition in U.S. Immigration0
The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need The Shaming State: How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need, by SalmanSara. New York: New York University Press, 2023. 248 pp. $30.00 paper. ISBN: 90
Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru Cultivating Livability: Food, Class, and the Urban Future in Bengaluru, by FrazierCamille. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota P0
Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology0
Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping through America's Endangered LGBTQ+ Places0
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis0
Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets0
Something in These Hills: The Culture of Family Land in Southern Appalachia0
Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of the Second Generation0
A Birthright to Belong? (Non)Citizenship, Identity, Family, and Belonging in Restrictionist America Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigration Times, by RodriguezCassaundra. New Yo0
Index of Reviews by Category0
Zar: Spirit Possession, Music, and Healing Rituals in Egypt0
States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion0
Index of Reviews by Category0
Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation0
Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America0
The Immigrant Threat Narrative and the Politics of Resentment0
Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime0
Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy0
Horizon Work: At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change0
The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London0
Unemployment: The Accumulation of Advantage and Disadvantage0
Identity Investments: Middle-Class Responses to Precarious Privilege in Neoliberal Chile0
On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography0
Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border0
Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems, by BannerFrancine. Oakland: University of California Press, 2024. 272 pp. $0
King of Hearts: Drag Kings in the American South0
Making Their Days Happen: Paid Personal Assistance Services Supporting People with Disability Living in Their Homes and Communities0
Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Sociology0
Mapping the Monosexual Imaginary: Bi+ Identity, Community, and Politics Mapping the Monosexual Imaginary: Bi+ Identity, Community, and Politics, by MathersLain A. B.Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024. 0
Will Labor Unions Make a Comeback?0
After Globalization: Crisis and Disintegration0
Retirement Migration and Precarity in Later Life0
Why We Disagree about Inequality: Social Justice vs. Social Order0
America Classifies the Immigrants: From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census0
Islam, Revival, and Reform: Redefining Tradition for the Twenty-First Century (Essays Inspired by John O. Voll)0
A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States A Wall Is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in the Twentieth-Century United States, by HillyerRei0
Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through the Critique of Antiblackness Modern Migrations, Black Interrogations: Revisioning Migrants and Mobilities through 0
The Demise of Organized Labor and the Rise of Postindustrial Populism0
Cultural Representations of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen Cultural Representations of the Second Wife: Literature, Stage, and Screen, edited by ParnellJo. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,0
Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability, 20th Anniversary Edition, by BellMichae0
Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs0
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