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The Social Banditry in the Rural Areas of Rembang by the End of the 19th Century and at the Beginning of the 20th Century [PDF]

, 2011
The social banditry is the act of crime committed by the residents of a village or the people in the low economic and social stratum in order to fulfill their basic needs.
Warto,
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Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten, Abdirahman Edle, Jethro Norman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

El bandolerismo: un problema social, político y económico en los territorios peninsulares de la monarquía hispánica de los siglos XVI y XVII

Alejandría, 2023
In this article we have tried to make an overview of banditry in Spain in the 16th and 17th centuries, with emphasis on the territories of Aragon, Murcia, Valencia, Andalusia and Extremadura, regions in which there has been a great activity of banditry ...
Rubén Marco Cano
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The Politics of Passage: Studying Checkpoints and Claim Making in Conflict‐affected Settings

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roadblocks, or checkpoints, are obligatory passage points that are erected by entities claiming authority over a given crossing. They are often the most common everyday interface between civilians and armed actors in conflict‐affected contexts, but are overlooked in studies on either trade or authority amidst conflict.
Peer Schouten, Vanessa van den Boogaard, Max Gallien, Shalaka Thakur, Florian Weigand   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
wiley   +1 more source

Picturesque Violence: Tourism, the Film Industry, and the Heritagization of ‘Bandoleros’ in Spain, 1905–1936 [PDF]

, 2014
This article examines the debates about the Andalusian ‘bandoleros’ (bandits) in the context of early tourism as a state-guided policy in Spain. As we argue, the development of tourism made Spanish intellectuals reconsider the real armed activity in ...
Afinoguénova, Eugenia, Rodríguez Merchán, Eduardo   +1 more
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Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Subaltern Strategies and Agency: How South Asian American Youth Rework the Model Minority Stereotype

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how South Asian American youth, as epistemically marginalized or “subaltern” actors, navigate racialized school experiences. It focuses on how South Asian American boys employ the model minority stereotype through finessing, a strategy of agency that counters exclusionary labels like perpetual foreigner and nerd while ...
Joan J. Hong
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Marginalisation and Political Struggles of Historical Antecedents of Banditry in Nigeria and Their Reflection in the Fourth Republic, from 1999 to 2023

Studia Historiae Oeconomicae
Banditry has deep roots in Nigeria's precolonial and colonial history, which became evident in the Fourth Republic. This study used published data to trace the history of banditry in Nigeria and examine its manifestation under various administrations in
Paul Irabor
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Dominance and retaliation in the informal structure of authority: a comparative study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar [PDF]

, 2006
In post-independence democratic India several measures have been initiated in order to bring the marginalised and depressed sections of its population into the mainstream of development. While some of these measures have yielded positive results, several
Chaubey, Rakesh
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