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Affective Possibility: Identity Documents, Checkpoints, Violence and the Law

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 49, Issue 1, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article seeks to highlight the unstable relationship between identity documents, checkpoints, violence and the law. To do this the piece uses stories from three Syrians concerning their everyday interactions with the law, primarily at checkpoints but also in other administrative settings.
Marika Sosnowski
wiley   +1 more source

Local Defence (Self-Defence) in Lithuania during the Nazi German Occupation (1941–1944)

open access: yesGenocidas ir Rezistencija, 2002
In the summer of 1943 a substantial turning point took place in the Eastern front, the Germans lost their strategic initiative and were dislodged far to the West. Lithuania was not anymore a remote and quite country to protect their rear. In summer 1943
Rimantas Zizas
doaj   +1 more source

How will the European Court of Human Rights deal with the UK in Iraq?: lessons from Turkey and Russia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The decision by the US and UK governments to use military force against Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent occupation and administration of that State, has brought into sharp focus fundamental fault lines in international law.
Bowring, Bill
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Walking With SAGE Clan Patrol: Practicing Empathy in the Indigenous Urban Landscape

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the work of a Blackfoot‐led, volunteer‐based outreach organization that patrols the urban core of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, providing support and connection to vulnerable community members. While settler colonialism maintains exclusionary racialized geographies which locate cities as spaces of “Whiteness” and reserves ...
Amy Cran   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kenya and Uganda Pastoral Conflict Case Study [PDF]

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human development, aid, trade ...
Ciru Mwaura
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Ethnic diversity and conflict [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We argue that the reason why it has proved hard to determine whether negative effects on economic performance and conflict are more strongly associated with polarized rather than fractionalized societies is because the distinction between polarization ...
ARCANGELO DIMICO   +4 more
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THE ROLE OF INFORMANTS IN THE ACCENTUATION OF ARMED BANDITRY IN NORTH-WESTERN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF ZAMFARA STATE

open access: yesInternational Studies Journal
The north-western region of Nigeria has been hit by an unprecedented wave of insecurity such as kidnapping for ransom, cattle rustling and armed banditry which has led to maiming, killings, displacements of people and disruption of socio-economic ...
TUKUR ABDULKADIR, ABDULNASIR UMAR
doaj  

Un bandolero para el recuerdo: Efraín González también conocido como

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2006
The purpose of this article is to show the different ways that Efraín González, a very well known bandit from the period of la Violencia, is remembered.
Claudia Steiner
doaj  

Popular resistence in catalonia: somatenes and migueletes in the french war [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The author treats the characteristics of the somatenes and the miquelets during the Great War (1793-95) and the French War (1808-1814), he impacts in the strategies of the formation, the problem of the desertions, the profile of the war of guerrilla ...
Moliner i Prada, Antoni
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