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Policy, Waste, and Power: Textile Dumping in Chile's Atacama Desert
ABSTRACT Globally, 87% of textile fibers end up incinerated or in landfills, with Chile bearing the brunt of this crisis. Every year, 39,000 tons of discarded clothing are illegally dumped in the Atacama Desert, turning it into a sacrifice zone for the Global North's waste economy.
Emma Minerva Brambilla
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Articulating Sovereignties: Struggles for Subaltern Hegemony in Ecuador and Bolivia
ABSTRACT This article examines the cycles of articulation and disarticulation between working‐class and indigenous‐campesino movements in Ecuador and Bolivia. While the former advances national‐popular sovereignty, aiming to strengthen the state against imperialism, the latter defends community‐territorial sovereignty against internal colonialism ...
Diego Andreucci +3 more
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Abstract A substantial body of literature has considered warfare a fundamental driver of fiscal capacity. We argue that the nature of the tax base available to governments can either foster or constrain the ability and incentives of central elites to impose their legitimacy once the war is over.
Oriol Sabaté, José Peres‐Cajías
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ABSTRACT Based on the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) and implementation research, this study proposes an extended conceptualization of policy punctuation that enables researchers to systematically include policy implementation as part of a punctuation. The key mechanisms underlying the PET, i.e., policy image and venue, information processing, and
Bettina Stauffer
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O objetivo deste estudo foi buscar elementos para a compreensão dos motivos da entrada dos professores de Educação Física como os responsáveis por ministrar aulas no Ciclo Básico em 1988; a retirada desse profissional no ano de 1995; e o retorno em 2003.
Anoel Fernandes
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ABSTRACT To complement the emergent inquiry into the threats and opportunities that new technologies pose to political institutions and behavior, this study draws on the emergent scholarly literature on Digital Authoritarianism to shed light on the factors leading to Hong Kong's newly acquired penchant for adopting the digital and information ...
Kenneth Ka‐Lok Chan
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El “ciclo de las políticas” en la enseñanza de las políticas públicas
En homenaje al Dr. Luis F. Aguilar Villanueva, en el presente artículo se recupera, de la experiencia docente desarrollada por más de 20 años, un texto escrito por el autor con el propósito de introducir a sus alumnos al estudio de las políticas ...
Roberto Arias de la Mora
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ABSTRACT This paper addresses stories of surveillance of Brazilian critical/radical geographers, drawing on innovative sources. That is, the folders and reports through which the political police and related institutions watched critical and radical scholars during the 20th century in all Brazilian states and abroad, under both ‘dictatorial’ and ...
Federico Ferretti, Guilherme Ribeiro
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Escribir en comunidad: Construcción de relaciones y responsabilidad en la producción de conocimiento
ABSTRACT As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and
Jordi Armani Rivera Prince +16 more
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Immersion patterns alone can predict vessel following by albatrosses
We demonstrate that seabird immersion patterns alone can detect high‐risk seabird‐vessel interactions, even in the absence of locational data for both seabirds and vessels. Our approach could allow for more comprehensive seabird bycatch risk assessments that quantify previously hidden seabird‐vessel interactions, such as those involving migratory life ...
Jonathan D. Rutter +6 more
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