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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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Insurgency, armed banditry and corruption in Nigeria: The bane of socio-economic underdevelopment
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The Effect of Rural and nomadic Relationships on the Life of Villagers in the Qajar Period [PDF]
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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Subaltern Strategies and Agency: How South Asian American Youth Rework the Model Minority Stereotype
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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Simmering in the Corridors: An Ethnographic Novella
ABSTRACT The ethnographic novella “Simmering in the Corridors” blends fiction and ethnography to reflect on academic life within a Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. It addresses institutional racism, colonial legacies, and power dynamics in academia.
Mara Belacchi Livi +9 more
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The armed forces generally signify national pride, strength, valor, resilience, and power as they perform the tasks of securing land and border and protecting the citizenry from external aggressors. The attributes required for this range from patriotism,
Kayode Sunday John Dada +2 more
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Talking Emotional Safety: School Leaders and Language in a Chicago School Safety Reform
ABSTRACT This article examines the ways that school leaders used buzzwords when speaking about youth “emotional safety,” in a Chicago Public Schools safety reform aimed at reexamining the role of school policing. Drawing on observations from pandemic‐era virtual school council meetings, we suggest a recognizable register of speech developed around the ...
Uma Blanchard +2 more
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BANDITRY AND SECURITY GOVERNANCE IN NORTHWEST NIGERIA: STATE FRAGILITY AND INSTITUTIONAL FAILURE
Research 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 Ethical Life of Educational Policy: Physical Education Teachers as Phronimoi
ABSTRACT This paper explores the ethical dimension of educational policy. Policy‐as‐practice scholarship tends to emphasize teachers as purposeful agents involved in problem‐solving and the creative interpretation and reassembling of educational discourses.
Adriano De Francesco
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