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Implications of the Problem of Armed Banditry to National Security in Nigeria
African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchThis study analysed the problem of armed banditry and its implications for Nigeria’s national security. Using a quantitative research design, the study utilised secondary data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), ACLED, and various humanitarian and security reports to achieve its desired objectives of analyzing the drivers of banditry and its ...
Umar S. U. +4 more
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Talking Emotional Safety: School Leaders and Language in a Chicago School Safety Reform
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.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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The Ethical Life of Educational Policy: Physical Education Teachers as Phronimoi
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2026.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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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 249-258, June 2026.ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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The Last Course Revisited: Reflections on Policy, Praxis, and Protest
Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, Volume 48, Issue 1, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article is a personal reflection on how SAFN addressed my academic identity crisis in the late 70s. The development of the anthropology of food and nutrition provided opportunities to refashion disciplinary praxis and to link the little and the large in interesting ways.
Penny Van Esterik
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Nigerian Journal of MedicineBackground: Banditry and armed violence have severe psychological consequences, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and psychosis.
Abdullahi Akilu +5 more
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Local Defence (Self-Defence) in Lithuania during the Nazi German Occupation (1941–1944)
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2001 The article deals with the establishment and activities of local defence units (self-defence) that were to protect living sites and their residents; private and public property; various civil objects as well as to support anti-partisan operations ...
Rimantas Zizas
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A Reserve of Light: Photography, Ethnography, and Lucid Memory in Contemporary Chile
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article takes shape as a shared inquiry between an ethnographer and a photographer, in continuity with the photographic archive of Luis Poirot. Through sustained encounters with his images and archival practices, the text does not position itself outside the archive that motivates it, but unfolds from within it.
Cristóbal Bonelli, Luis Poirot
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Zeszyty Naukowe Szkoły Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie. Problemy Rolnictwa ŚwiatowegoArmed banditry has become a major threat to socioeconomic stability in Nigeria, particularly in the North-West region, where rural communities are increasingly vulnerable to multidimensional poverty.
Mohammed Sadiq +3 more
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American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 159-170, May 2026.Abstract In recent years, Berlin has emerged as an epicenter of climate activism in Germany. There, a range of groups have mobilized in opposition to the role of the German state and the EU in accelerating the climate crisis. Many activists now see conventional political responses as exhausted and have turned to increasingly radical forms of civil ...
Max Jack
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