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The EEC-Mexican Agreement: Time for Reevaluation? [PDF]
, 1988 This Note argues that the EEC and Mexico should modify their current agreement. Part I examines the terms of the EEC-Mexican Agreement. Part II discusses the changing economic factors in the EEC and Mexico that dictate the need for a new agreement ...
Woods, Therese M.
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Evaluating the Quality of Corruption Surveys for Comparative Research and Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue S1, Page 1144-1172, January 2026.ABSTRACT Reliable and accurate corruption measurement is crucial for effective governance, evidence‐based policymaking, and the monitoring of global goals such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While perception‐based corruption metrics are widely used, they face criticism due to conceptual ambiguities and vulnerability to ...
Giulia Mugellini +2 more
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Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
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Conflict, Claim and Contradiction in the New Indigenous State of Bolivia [PDF]
, 2012 Recent conflict between indigenous people and a self-styled indigenous state in Bolivia has brought to the fore some of the paradoxes and contradictions within the concept of indigeneity itself. The contemporary politics of state sponsored indigeneity in
Canessa, A
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Water and Communal Conflict: A Review of the Literature
WIREs Water, Volume 13, Issue 1, January/February 2026.Conceptual summary of the relationship between water access and communal resilience. Following the IPCC, resilience is understood as the capacity to cope with disturbance, responding in ways that maintain systems' essential function, identity, and structure while also maintaining the capacity for adaptation, learning, and transformation.
Stefan Döring
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Heroic Creation and the Socialist City: The Making of Villa El Salvador
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract J.C. Mariátegui believed Indo‐American socialism would be neither calque nor copy, but heroic creation. This article explores an attempt at heroic creation in 1970s Peru: the Self‐Managed Urban Commune of Villa El Salvador (Villa). Putting Marxism in conversation with decolonial theory, I argue Villa shows universality and particularity can be
Rafael Shimabukuro
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.This study contributes to the ongoing historical examination of ecological and postcolonial questions in Latin America through the lens of new media genre narratives. Early 20th‐century documentary films of Argentine Patagonia institutionalised a natural binary opposition, positioning those challenging colonial power relations based on natural ...
Cielo Zaidenwerg, Mauricio Dimant
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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests Have High Resilience to Five Years of Severe Soil Drought
Global Change Biology, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.A 5‐year throughfall exclusion experiment in a Peruvian tropical montane cloud forest reduced soil moisture by 69%, leading to lower photosynthetic inputs and autotrophic respiration but maintaining net primary productivity and carbon sink capacity. Trees responded through metabolic downregulation, reduced fruit production, increased wood density, and ...
David C. Bartholomew +18 more
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Social Justice Documentary: Designing for Impact [PDF]
, 2011 Explores current methodologies for assessing social issue documentary films by combining strategic design and evaluation of multiplatform outreach and impact, including documentaries' role in network- and field-building.
Barbara Abrash, Jessica Clark
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