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Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg +2 more
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Studia Historiae OeconomicaeBanditry has deep roots in Nigeria's precolonial and colonial history, which became evident in the Fourth Republic. This study used published data to trace the history of banditry in Nigeria and examine its manifestation under various administrations in
Paul Irabor
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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Bonds, Bounds, and Borders: Crafting Hospitality with Unauthorized Migrants in Southern France
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the everyday politics of migrant hospitality in rural Southern France. Drawing on four years of fieldwork alongside benevolent residents hosting unauthorized migrants at their home or volunteering in migrant shelters, I consider how residents attempted to make up for the state's abandonment of migrant lives, the ethical ...
Céline Eschenbrenner
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Impact of Armed Banditry on Security in Northwest Nigeria: An Overview
, 2023 ABSTRACT Armed banditry activities including kidnapping, armed robbery, attacks on travelers, traders and cattle resulting are the major security challenges facing northwest of Nigeria recently. The main objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of armed banditry on security in Northwest Nigeria.
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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Subaltern Strategies and Agency: How South Asian American Youth Rework the Model Minority Stereotype
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines how South Asian American youth, as epistemically marginalized or “subaltern” actors, navigate racialized school experiences. It focuses on how South Asian American boys employ the model minority stereotype through finessing, a strategy of agency that counters exclusionary labels like perpetual foreigner and nerd while ...
Joan J. Hong
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Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Based on educational ethnography and co‐creative methods conducted in a Danish school context, I center student voices to examine how wellbeing is experienced and negotiated in everyday school life. The article takes a relational and collective perspective as its point of departure yet adopts an exploratory stance that also considers the ...
Camilla Maria Lindskov
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BANDITRY AND SECURITY GOVERNANCE IN NORTHWEST NIGERIA: STATE FRAGILITY AND INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE
International Studies JournalResearch Problem Banditry in Northwest Nigeria has turned into a long-term security challenge that shows severe state fragility, institutional incoherence, and politically driven governance failures.
ABUBAKAR SHEHU TARASA +2 more
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The Effect of Rural and nomadic Relationships on the Life of Villagers in the Qajar Period [PDF]
پژوهشهای تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2016 The rural, urban and nomadic communities as the three main modes of social life throughout the history of Iran, despite their relative independence, had a close relationship with each other and had many positive and negative influences on each other.
حسین آبادیان +1 more
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