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Change and Continuity in British Politics: Can the Starmer Government's Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform?

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 140-148, January/March 2025.
Abstract In this article, the key dilemmas that will confront the new Labour administration in Britain during its initial period in power are examined. The Starmer government is seeking to use the state pragmatically to improve British economic performance, stem the crisis in public services and strengthen the strategic capacity of Whitehall.
Patrick Diamond, David Richards, Sam Warner   +2 more
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Aguida Gonçalves da Silva, une dona à Benguela à la fin du xviiie siècle

Brésil(s), 2012
This article discusses the role of women in the commercial elites of Benguela, in West Central Africa. Many of the local female traders married foreign merchants and colonial agents, which allowed them to act as cultural brokers, linking the Atlantic and
Mariana P. Candido
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

O AFRICANO INDESEJADO. COMBATE AO TRÁFICO, SEGURANÇA PÚBLICA E REFORMA CIVILIZADORA (GRÃO-PARÁ, 1850-1860)

Afro-Ásia, 2011
Among the reasons that had taken the Brazilian Empire in middle of 19th century to effectively fight against the Atlantic slave trade from Africa to Brazil, extinguishing it in little time, detach that relative in such a way public security face enslaved
Jos\u00E9 Maia Bezerra Neto
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UNDERSTANDING GUANTANAMO THROUGH ITS PARALLEL WITH SLAVERY

International Journal of Cuban Studies, 2010
There are tangible and unsettling links between the age of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the peculiar nature of capture, transportation and detention of terror suspects in the War on Terror.
William Rowlandson
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

De betekenis van de Atlantische slavernij voor de Nederlandse economie in de tweede helft van de achttiende eeuw.

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2019
Dit artikel presenteert de eerste methodologisch onderbouwde berekening van het gewicht van op Atlantische slavernij gebaseerde activiteiten in de Nederlandse economie in de tweede helft van de achttiende eeuw.
Pepijn Brandon, Ulbe Bosma
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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source