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Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Along arterial roads in northeast India, bordering Myanmar, various armed groups and state actors collect ‘taxes’ at checkpoints. These checkpoints are sites of interaction where the power dynamics between armed groups, state officials and civilians are constantly negotiated, embedded in a larger network of social and political relationships ...
Shalaka Thakur
wiley   +1 more source

‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
wiley   +1 more source

Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following Myanmar's military coup in February 2021, the State Administrative Council (SAC) established checkpoints between towns under its control and rural areas increasingly governed by anti‐junta resistance forces. Here, military personnel command trade and extort from people, inflating the price of consumer goods and agricultural inputs ...
Gerard McCarthy, Kyle Nyana
wiley   +1 more source

Vision-Based People Counting and Tracking for Urban Environments. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Imaging
Nurseitov D   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An evaluation of the risk of airborne transmission of COVID-19 on an inter-city train carriage. [PDF]

open access: yesIndoor Air, 2022
Woodward H   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Trust and fairness in platform–supplier contracts: Navigating supplier concerns in the sharing economy

open access: yesDecision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Trust and fairness are critical to the sustainable development of the sharing economy, particularly in platform–supplier relationships, where numerous individual suppliers offer access to their durable assets without transferring ownership. Motivated by the real‐world phenomenon of personalized wages and informed through direct interactions ...
Ying Yin, Xishu Li
wiley   +1 more source

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