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For an Anarchist Decolonial Agenda: New Perspectives on Anarchism, Marronage, and Indigeneity from Brazil/Pindorama

Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 6, Page 2112-2135, November 2024.
Abstract This paper proposes new perspectives on anarchism, indigeneity, and Afro‐descendent struggles, by discussing the case of Brazilian anarchists’ commitment to luta afroindígena. They mean by this term the intersection of indigenous and Afro‐descendant resistances for the recognition of land, against the violence of states, agribusiness, and ...
Federico Ferretti
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Gendering Toxic Contamination: Toxic Risks, Bodies, and Pregnancies in Gold Mining and Coca Farming Communities in the Bajo Cauca Region

Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 5, Page 1560-1580, September 2024.
Abstract This paper investigates women's everyday reproductive struggles in contexts of toxic contamination and the tensions emerging between toxic exposure and care in women's experiences of motherhood. While scientific framings of reproductive disruptions understand social identities as pre‐existing the experience of toxic risks, in this paper I ...
Chiara Chiavaroli
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From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions

Sociology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 8, August 2024.
ABSTRACT For decades, the “Third World” was an expression used to refer to regions seen as lacking prosperity and progress, on the one hand, and as a rallying call for anti‐colonial struggles on the other. The concept evoked the uneven distribution of power and wealth following World War II, replaced the forms of oppression and disparities distinctive ...
Claudio Pinheiro
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Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country

, 2022
Contemporary Sweden is a country with a worldwide progressive reputation, despite an undeniable tradition of racism within its borders. In the face of this contradiction of culture and history, Afro-Swedes have emerged as a vibrant demographic presence ...
Ryan Skinner (13884621)
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Towards Responsible Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Emerging and Existing Ethical Issues in Africa

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This study investigats both emerging and existing ethical issues associated with the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa, a region characterised by unique socio-economic and cultural complexities.
Dolapo Faith Sule
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Africa and the prospects of rotational democracy

The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 2, Page 157-172, Summer 2024.
Abstract Sharing of social, economic, and political opportunities is crucial for the stability of many African states. Democracy has been identified as an inclusive framework that allows individuals to freely contest for these opportunities. However, in Africa, democracy appears not to work as compared to Western democratic societies.
Diana‐Abasi Ibanga
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Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 54, Issue 1, Page 65-85, March 2024.
Abstract To understand social issues and practices such as those related to climate change and technological change that are clearly future‐oriented – collectively experienced events that are “not yet” – and co‐constructed by different actors, we need nuanced conceptualizations of how people think about, negotiate and co‐create futures that allow us to
Ross Wallace, Susana Batel
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Trumping communitarianism: crime control and forensic DNA typing and databasing in Singapore

, 2014
Liberalism and communitarianism have figured prominently in discussions of how to govern forensic DNA practices (forensic DNA typing and databasing). Despite the prominence of these two political philosophies and their underlying values, no studies have ...
Toom, Victor
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Communitarianism, Personhood and Politics: Engaging with the Philosophy of Bernard Matolino (Guest Editor’s Introduction)

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This special issue aims to investigate the complex landscape of communitarianism in African philosophy, with a particular focus on the heated debates surrounding radical, moderate, and limited communitarianism.
Mutshidzi MARAGANEDZHA
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Souvenir from the Afro-American League of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio

, 2023
These photographs show the exterior of a book of speeches delivered by abolitionist and Congressman James Mitchell Ashley of Toledo, Ohio between 1859 - 1891.
Ashley, James Mitchell, 1824-1896
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