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Fighting the Minor Evils: Slavery and the Diverse Lives of Abolitionism in the Ottoman Empire [PDF]

Historians have long argued that abolitionism, as a distinct political project, never fully took root in the Ottoman Empire. While anti-slavery measures emerged from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, they are often seen as state-imposed responses to ...
Karamursel, Ceyda
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Symbolism and Substance: How Geopolitics, Organisational Design, and Continental Coherence Shape Africa's Multilateral Reform Aspirations

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What factors shape African agency in global multilateral reform processes? Rather than a supposed pawn of geopolitical competition, Africa's proactive diplomacy for multilateral reforms is garnering increasing interest. Yet we know surprisingly little about variation in the pursuit of African agency by the African Union (AU) and African Groups
Ueli Staeger
wiley   +1 more source

Animal welfare and the law

Mètode Science Studies Journal: Annual Review
Animal welfare’s evolution indicates humanity’s changing attitudes toward the treatment of animals. From its roots in Jeremy Bentham’s philosophy emphasizing the avoidance of suffering as a moral imperative to its inclusion in modern legislation and ...
Carlos Contreras López, Macarena Montes Franceschini   +1 more
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Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann, Gabriel Brown, Johan Fourie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
wiley   +1 more source

The desert island: abolitionism as a possibility... [PDF]

, 2017
Los enfoques tradicionales acerca del abolicionismo penal, suelen designarlo como una corriente radical dentro de la criminología crítica. Evitando estas restricciones, en este trabajo se lo analizará como un proceso ético y subjetivo que se despliega en
Kostenwein, Ezequiel Roberto
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‘The White Hordes From the West’: Race and Refuge in Australian Media Commentary About White Rhodesians During Zimbabwe's Decolonisation

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
wiley   +1 more source

Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Int Relat (David Davies Mem Inst Int Stud), 2023
Zevnik A.
europepmc   +1 more source

What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
wiley   +1 more source

When Universities Turn Carceral: Between Academic Freedom and Elimination

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Gil Rothschild Elyassi
wiley   +1 more source