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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2026.Abstract This article explores how students experiencing mental unwellness negotiate psychiatric constructs of mental health to make their suffering morally legible within the North American University context. I argue while the psychiatric construct remains pervasive, students are ambivalent toward it as a metaphor for their distress.
Adrianna Nicole Wiley
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Armed Banditry and Statehood Challenges in North-Western Nigeria [PDF]
This paper attempts to examine Armed Banditry and Statehood Challenges in North-Western Nigeria as part of the threats to national security that has setback the nation building. Therefore, states of Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, Sokoto and Kebbi in the
Abdullahi , Idris Ibrahim
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT The article examines the history of phonographic recordings from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897–1902), a venture that shaped the methods of Siberian and Arctic anthropology for decades. The authors—a historical anthropologist, a curator, and an Indigenous Sakha scholar—trace how audio recordings made during the expedition have moved ...
Dmitry Arzyutov +2 more
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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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“Caught in a Trap”: Everyday Peace and the Dilemma of Representation in Rio de Janeiro
City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.ABSTRACT Urban security interventions often seek legitimacy by changing how places associated with violence are publicly represented. Less attention has been paid to how grassroots organizations navigate these representational pressures as they pursue everyday peace.
Henry Staples, Sarah Vogelsanger
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ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement of Persons and Cross-Border Dimensions of Armed Banditry in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2023 The dialectics that have led to explosion of free movement of persons within ECOWAS borders largely constitute a new dimension of security threats in the region.
Chibuike Victor Obikaeze +3 more
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 723-734, July 2026.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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The Societal Consequences of War: Social Science Perspectives and Findings From Ukraine
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 7, July 2026.ABSTRACT War is an enduring feature of human society, capable of reshaping demographic patterns, economies, institutions, identities, and everyday life. Yet sociological research has given comparatively limited attention to its consequences, largely ceding this large, complex research territory to neighboring disciplines.
Theodore P. Gerber +2 more
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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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