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Seizing the Means of Circulation: Choke Points and Logistical Resistance in Coco Solo, Panama
Antipode, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 1368-1389, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Recent studies of logistics have embraced the “choke point” thesis: the notion that a strategically positioned group of workers or insurgents can exercise outsize power by disrupting the circulation of goods through the supply chain. This article examines this proposition through the case of Coco Solo, Panama, an informal community situated at
Martin Danyluk
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 251-260, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The literature on the recent exponential growth of the extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented the various processes through which this sector has been empowered to expand its frontier, as well as the strategies that affected communities employ to resist it.
Karine Vanthuyne, Marie Christine Dugal
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Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar
American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 1, Page 100-111, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Since 2009, the Chinese state‐owned corporation SINLANX has been managing the Anjava Sugar Plantation, previously managed by French, Malagasy, and Mauritian companies, in northern Madagascar. Built upon the infrastructure constructed by the French colonial regime and operating based on a collaboration agreement between SINLANX and the Malagasy
Mingyuan Zhang
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The afterlives of political violence in Argentina: The gendered body and everyday cruelty
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 42-52, March 2023., 2023 Abstract While the last decade in Argentina saw an expansion of civil rights and an increased awareness of gendered violence, prison conditions for women deteriorated. A prominent example took place in Buenos Aires in May 2014 when thirty women in ‘Unidad 31’ were violently transferred to make space for men convicted of crimes against humanity during ...
Leyla Savloff
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Conservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 4, August 2022., 2022 Abstract As ecological data and associated analyses become more widely available, synthesizing results for effective communication with stakeholders is essential. In the case of wildlife corridors, managers in human‐dominated landscapes need to identify both the locations of corridors and multiple stakeholders for effective oversight.
Jay M. Schoen +13 more
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An Edition of Ambrosio Nieto’s Paradise Lost: A Drama in Four Acts (c. 1920–50)
, 2023 Milton Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 59-88, October 2023.
Angelica Duran
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Descrição atualizada da paralisia cerebral
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.Resumo A paralisia cerebral (PC) é um termo descritivo amplamente utilizado para um espectro de deficiências motoras causadas por lesão ou malformação cerebral não progressiva ocorrida durante as fases iniciais do desenvolvimento. Avanços recentes nas áreas da genética, de pesquisa em inflamação e em neurofisiologia têm refinado a compreensão ...
Bernard Dan +5 more
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Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method
Review of Development Economics, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 847-864, May 2026.ABSTRACT Using the synthetic control method and data from 20 African countries, this study quantifies the peace dividend in Mozambique, a country that experienced over 15 years of civil war. More specifically, we use data from 1977 to 2018 to investigate whether the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992 brought significant benefits to the country ...
Tendai Gwatidzo, Aldo Sitoe, Busani Moyo
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
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Embracing the politics of transformation: Policy action as “battle‐settlement events”
Review of Policy Research, Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract Societal transformations for addressing climate change are intensely contested and at risk of resistance and backlash to ambitious policy action. But they are frequently modeled through heuristics such as S‐curves which abstract from such conflicts, assuming increasing returns to scale as a driver of transformations.
James Patterson, Matthew Paterson
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