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CLASS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CITIZENSHIP: Affluent Informal Settlements and the Cultural Production of Property in Delhi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 366-385, March 2026.
Abstract Recent scholarship has examined the informal activities of elites. While existing theories suggest that informality is a realm where the state guarantees unhindered access to land and property rights and, subsequently, citizenship entitlements for elites, they have yet to explain how affluent residents of informal colonies obtain citizenship ...
Vivek Mishra
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring the Land Mafia in Indonesia: New Phenomenon of Extraordinary Crime

Novum Jus
The recent actions of the land mafia in Indonesia, especially after the implementation of reforms, have increased significantly in the land sector, including individuals and many government institutions, disrupting the investment entry process and ...
Vani Wirawan, Yusriyadi, Ana Silviana, Yeni Widowaty   +3 more
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Narcotrafic, conflit armé et sécurité : une perspective à partir du cas colombien

L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2014
Amidst domestic war, narcotrafficking has produced long-term transformations in Colombia’s economy and political culture. Its symbiotic embeddedness within large economic and political interests has led profoundly redefined the agrarian structure ...
Ricardo Vargas Meza
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Slum Evictions through the Lens of Labour: Capture, Value Generation, and Belonging in the Indian City

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Following the lead of labour movements, this article frames slums as labour geographies whose evictions constitute the devaluation of labour in spatial terms. This devaluation occurs in two modes: in the first, through the rendering of workers as “encroachers” or “the urban poor” in policy documents and public discourse, thereby unmooring ...
Priti Narayan
wiley   +1 more source

Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency

Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
wiley   +1 more source

The Sicilian Mafia: transformation to a global evil A Máfia siciliana: a transformação num mal global

Etnográfica: Revista do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ways in which social perceptions of the Mafia have shifted over time. Initially considered as a Sicilian way of being, as an attitude, the Sicilian Mafia was subsequently viewed as a universal, global, and even
Deborah Puccio-Den
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Giuseppe Fava’s intellectual commitment in the fight against organised crime

Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2017
Nel corso della sua carriera giornalistica, Giuseppe Fava (1925-1984) sviluppò un concetto etico del giornalismo come una forza essenziale della società, capace di impedire corruzioni e di combattere l’ingiustizia sociale.
Sarah Vantorre
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South Africa at the End of Neoliberalism? “Gangster Capitalism”, Rentier Accumulation, and the Transformation of Labour Politics after the Failure of Industrial‐Export Development

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Situated in the manufacturing and construction industries of Durban, South Africa, this paper presents an ethnographic investigation into non‐unionised labour activism emergent from so‐called “organised crime” linked to the patronage politics of the African National Congress. In doing so, this paper traces a twin process of post‐colonial class
Nicholas Abrams
wiley   +1 more source

¿Es hoy posible un Estado mafioso en Europa? Un análisis del caso italiano

Revista Controversia, 2010
En este artículo analizamos cómo las mafias italianas se están apropiando del Estado, a diferentes niveles: político, económico, ramificándose como una piovra criminal dentro de la sociedad, del Business y de la Iglesia.
Giusto Pace
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Leoluca Orlando and Costanze Reuscher, Enigma Palermo. La politica, la paura, il futuro. Storia di una città e del suo sindaco (Milan: Rizzoli, 2022)

Nordicum-Mediterraneum
Leoluca Orlando’s political career intertwines indissolubly with major Italian political, socials and judiciary events, not only but especially from Palermo, the capital of the island of Sicily, from the mid-1980s until the present time.
Gaetano Roberto Buccola
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