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A long way to walk: Bus Boycotts in Alexandra, 1940-1945 [PDF]

, 1979
African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented April 1979Bus boycotts assumed central significance in the political struggles in urban areas during the forties and fifties.
Stadler, Alfred William
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Boycotts and Jurisprudential Challenges Related to Identifying Their Legal Cause (‘İllah)

İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi
Recently, consumer boycott has been used as an economic weapon and a tool of passive resistance. There are several dimensions to consumer boycott, which serves as a means for Muslim communities to assert their will and to make their voices heard.
Ozat Shamshıyev
doaj   +1 more source

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

Les gauches radicales marocaines et les élections de 2021 : observations d’une campagne financiarisée

L’Année du Maghreb
This article examines the 2021 Moroccan elections not as an arena of democratic competition but as a mechanism of controlled rotation of coopted elites, in which electoral engineering, bureaucratic filters, and the routinized financialization of ...
Adam Boubel, Khalil Dahbi, Montassir Sakhi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marginalized, but not demobilized: Ethnic minority protest activity when facing discrimination. [PDF]

Int Polit Sci Rev, 2023
Bilodeau A, White SE, Ma C, Turgeon L, Henderson A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What is social science if not critical?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
wiley   +1 more source

Undiversity, inequity, and exclusion in supply chains: The unintended fallout of economic sanctions and consumer boycotts

Production and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Economic sanctions and consumer boycotts are common tools to punish organizations for undesirable behavior and attempt to coerce them to change their actions. However, these tools occasionally spill over beyond the intended recipients and affect guiltless supply chain members, jeopardizing the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in ...
Timofey Shalpegin, Ajay Kumar, Tyson R. Browning   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Active Yet Cautious: How Middle States Navigate Status in the Universal Periodic Review

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how states positioned in the middle of the international status hierarchy behave in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR). While the UPR was established as a cooperative mechanism to move away from confrontational naming and shaming, in practice it has become a reputational arena where states strategically ...
Chun‐Young Park
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Boycotts: The Impact of the Iraq War on French Wine Sales in the U.S. [PDF]

The French Opposition to the war in Iraq in early 2003, prompted calls for a boycott of French wine in the US. We measure the magnitude of consumers%u2019 participation in the boycott, and look at basic evidence of who participates.
Larry Chavis, Phillip Leslie
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