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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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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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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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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers an analysis of Gulf‐Arab and more specifically Emirati empire‐making in central Sudan, by focusing ethnographic attention on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition.
Nisrin Elamin
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Brutalities in Anti‑Imperial Revolts
Politeja, 2015 In order to understand and resolve internal armed conflicts one must comprehend why and how people revolt, and under what conditions they brutalise i.e. increasingly resort to terrorism, banditry, brigandry, “gangsterism” and other forms of violence that
Caspar ten Dam
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Deforestation and resource disputes in Papua New Guinea
Asian Economic Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Disputes over land and other resources are common in poor areas of Asia and the Pacific, where common pool resources matter for livelihoods, property rights are poorly defined, and state capacity for dispute resolution is low. For example, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the subject of the current study, one‐quarter of households experience land ...
John Gibson
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Borders Monitoring and Armed Banditry
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FINANCE, MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCEBorder insecurity in the Republic of Niger has been exacerbated by porous entry points, weak institutional capacity, and inadequate surveillance, creating conditions for armed banditry, insurgency, and cross-border criminality. Despite government interventions, responses have been slow, costly, and largely ineffective, fuelling public scepticism about ...
Edet, Nsikak Stephen +1 more
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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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