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This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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THE CHAINMAKER: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time
Abstract Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time ...
HANNA HILBRANDT +2 more
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The Narrative Continent: Discursive Recognition and the EU's Technological Actorness
Abstract Recognition in global politics is not only earned through institutions or capabilities; it is narrated into being. This article investigates how the European Union (EU) is framed as a technological actor in global discourse, focusing on the symbolic dynamics of discursive recognition.
Mahmoud Javadi
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Menorah Review (No. 28, Spring, 1993) [PDF]
Counterpart Communities -- Peace and Existenz -- The Meaning is in the Meeting -- Judenthum As the Quintessential Other -- Focusing -- Book ...
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The new political economy of Dirigisme: French macroeconomic policy, unrepentant sinning and the stability and growth pact [PDF]
This article traces the enduring influence of the dirigiste traditions on contemporary French macroeconomic policy-making, arguing that French policy both within and towards the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) is consistent with long-standing French ...
Clift, Ben
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Mother tongue instruction as a sticky object: The making of a register of denunciation
Abstract This article examines the making of a political register to denounce mother tongue instruction (MTI) in Sweden. Nationally mandated since 1977, MTI is a state‐sponsored, curriculum‐stipulated subject for minority pupils of over 187 languages other than Swedish.
Scarlett Mannish, Linus Salö
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Mobilizing Documents: Identification, Bureaucracy, and Policing in Transnational Mobility
ABSTRACT This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and ...
Sahana Ghosh +5 more
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Dartmouth Outward Bound Center and the rise of experiential education 1957-1976 [PDF]
Purpose: The article discusses Outward Bound’s participation in the human potential movement through its incorporation of T-group practices and the reform language of experiential education in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Harrington, Sean +2 more
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Transnational intellectual cooperation, the League of Nations, and the problem of order [PDF]
This article examines the political and cultural contexts of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation. These two League of Nations bodies were charged with fostering international
Laqua, Daniel
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