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False dilemmas? Or what COVID-19 can teach us about material theory, responsibility and ‘hard power’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2020

Lori Khatchadourian
Lori Khatchadourian*
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Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University, USA (✉ lk323@cornell.edu)
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Antiquity , Volume 94 , Issue 378 , December 2020 , pp. 1649 - 1652
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