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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

Turkey: Further information on Fear for safety, S.Ö. (full name known to Amnesty International). New names: her six children., follow-up #1

, 2001
A document from Amnesty Internationals Urgent Action ...
Amnesty International
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The Kichwa of Sarayaku Case at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Legal Pluralism, Identity and Citizenship in a Context of Extractivism

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the tension between a universal approach to law and the recognition of indigenous peoples' rights at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights. The struggle for citizenship in a situation of extractivism and land dispossession demonstrates how identity is mobilized to obtain and attribute rights. The focus of this study is
Elisabeth Cunin
wiley   +1 more source

Gambia: Further information on Fear of ll-treatment/prisoner of conscience/human rights defender, Lamine Sillah, Secretary General, Amnesty International Gambia, follow-up #2

, 2001
A document from Amnesty Internationals Urgent Action ...
Amnesty International
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Gambia: Further information on Fear of ill-treatment/prisoner of conscience/human rights defender, Lamine Sillah, Secretary General, Amnesty International Gambia, follow-up #3

, 2001
A document from Amnesty Internationals Urgent Action ...
Amnesty International
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Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà, Diego Muro, Mariola Tàrrega, Harrison Parpillon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nationalism, Balance of Power, and World Order: Untangling Neorealism's Troubled Relationship With Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While many explain the crisis of the liberal international order through nationalism, its treatment by neorealist scholars remains frustrating. Untangling the nationalism–neorealism relationship would help explain the current crisis and enhance neorealism's explanatory power.
Dylan Motin
wiley   +1 more source

Thailand: Royal Pardon on the occasion of the King of Thailand's Birthday (5 December 1987) and related parliamentary moves to amnesty political prisoners

, 1987
A document from Amnesty International's Urgent Action ...
Amnesty International
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Mercy: A Right and a Privilege

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many accounts of mercy nowadays are morally neutral; agents show mercy when they impose less harm than they might have, whether or not such harm would have been permissible. More morally infused perspectives are often dismissed; for they seem too narrow to capture the full gamut of ordinary usage.
Jessica Isserow
wiley   +1 more source