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Brigands and Brigadiers: The Problem of Banditry and the Military in Nineteenth-Century Greece [PDF]
Athens Journal of History, 2018 Before the evolution of modern standing armies of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, the recruitment and conduct of military units usually depended on their commanders.
Nicholas C. J. Pappas
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Incidence and Ramifications of Armed Conflict in Countries with Major Desert Locust Breeding Areas
Agronomy, 2021 Despite many areas of progress in recent years, desert locust surveillance and control is impaired by many obstacles, the most intractable of which is insecurity.
Allan T. Showler, Michel Lecoq
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Unemployment, Youth Vulnerability, and the Escalation of Armed Banditry in NigerRepublic
TRANSNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SCIENCESArmed banditry has emerged as one of the most pressing security challenges in the Republic of Niger, threatening peace, stability, and socio-economic development. This article examines the nexus between unemployment, youth vulnerability, and the escalation of armed banditry, situating the analysis within frustration–aggression and resource access ...
Edet, Nsikak Stephen +1 more
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Learning From and Alongside Each Other: A Humanizing Approach to Team‐Based Ethnography
Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Drawing from 7 years of team‐based ethnographic research with Hmong communities in Wisconsin, we—a multiethnic group of Asian American women—extend Paris and Winn's (2013) concept of humanizing research. We argue that relational care among research team members is central to sustaining humanizing practices.
Linda M. Pheng +3 more
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Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This ethnographic study examines how market pressures shape institutional life within an Asian American charter school. The analysis shows two interrelated processes: school branding in pursuit of market desirability and intra‐Asian boundary making that this pursuit generates.
Insil Jeon
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Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.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, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 528-536, September 2026.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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The small civil war: The events in the Penza Province at the end of 1921-the first half of 1922
Крестьяноведение, 2017 This publication is a commented historical document from the fund of the special units’ headquarters. This document summarizes the events of several months (at the end of 1921 - the first half of 1922) in the Penza Province, which were determined by a ...
Anton Posadsky
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Food security in Nigeria: challenges and threats
Acta Politica PolonicaNigeria is currently grappling with a variety of security threats that are undermining its sovereignty. These threats encompass communal and religious conflicts, urban violence, arms smuggling, kidnapping, human trafficking, cybercrime, armed robbery ...
Olagoke Awotayo +3 more
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