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HEAD IN THE STARS, FEET ON THE GROUND: Scale and Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 571-596, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the evolution of radio astronomy in South Africa and Madagascar, focusing on how “scale” functions as both a way of understanding the world and marking differences in existence. In outer space research, the ground is crucial but often overlooked.
HANNA NIEBER, DAVIDE CHINIGÒ
wiley   +1 more source

Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in Italian Context - Past and Present [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in the Italian Context – Past and Present. In the last 30 years Italy experienced relevant changes due to its new configuration as a postcolonial country and land of transnational migrations, without ...
FABBRI, GIULIA
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Compliance and coloniality: aid bureaucracy and the failures of ‘localisation’ in Myanmar's complex emergency

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 49, Issue 4, October 2025.
Abstract In this article, we explore how logics and systems of coloniality are reproduced through the bureaucracy of international aid. Drawing on qualitative research with civil society and international aid workers in Myanmar, we examine tensions between international agencies' ‘do no harm’ and ‘localisation’ commitments and their compliance ...
Anne Décobert   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“The Shadow of Torture: Debating US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899-2008 (Book Review)” by Katrin Dauenhauer & “America in the Philippines, 1899-1902. The First Torture Scandal (Book Review)” by Christopher J. Einolf [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Review of Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain by Katherine C. Epstein Review of The Shadow of Torture: Debating US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899-2008 by Katrin ...
Schumacher, Frank
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Understanding the war in Ukraine: Comparing knowledge and bias in Russia and the U.S.

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 46, Issue 5, Page 1168-1185, October 2025.
Abstract What mass publics know about foreign affairs is of great importance in international politics. Knowledge and ignorance probabilistically delimit the range of opinions likely to form on foreign affairs issues. Military strategists understand the importance of “information warfare,” since publics apply foreign affairs knowledge to form opinions ...
Peter Beattie, Elena Sherstoboeva
wiley   +1 more source

Where Did Development Economics Come From?

open access: yes
Development and Change, EarlyView.
Eric Helleiner
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Diversity and the Law in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Criminalization and Social Exclusion of Khawaja Sira/Hijra/Gender X

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how Khawaja Sira, Hijra, and other gender‐diverse communities in Pakistan navigate law, criminalization, and punishment. While Socio‐Legal Studies and Criminology provides the main framework, it also draws from history, anthropology, public health, and gender studies to ...
Sabeen Kazmi
wiley   +1 more source

The normality of the exception in democracy’s empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The motif is one of inversion. In its received mode, the exception – the exceptional decision suspending the normal legal order – generates both the sovereign and the law.
Fitzpatrick, Peter, Joyce, R.
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Cosmopolitanism [PDF]

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This paper was presented as part of Rethinking the Postcolonial in the Age of the War on Terror joint symposium, by the MnM Centre in conjunction with the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Diasporas and Reconciliation Studies, at the University of South ...
Barry Hindess
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