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Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
wiley   +1 more source

An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio‐economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1533-1549, September 2026.
Colombia's forests play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but they are currently facing severe degradation, particularly after the 2016 Peace Agreement. Our literature review highlights a growing research interest in this topic and demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches combining diverse methods can enhance
Estefanía Muñoz   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exemplary Damages as Public Interest Damages: Implications for Rights of Action, Settlement and the Distribution of Awards

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 760-784, September 2026.
Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
wiley   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 480-493, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
wiley   +1 more source

Batasan pertanggungjawaban pidana koperasi atas tidak berwenangnya debitur terhadap barang gadainya

open access: yesJurnal Cakrawala Hukum, 2020
In the practice of credit services distributed by cooperatives to members as well as to the community, cooperatives typically require a special guarantee in the form of movable objects (pawning) with the intention, if the debtor defaults on his credit ...
Hartarto Pakpahan
doaj   +1 more source

Sonic Cartographies of Internationalism

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT How does sound chart a different story of anticolonialism? Sound could perhaps draw out another map of space in history. Mirroring the form of sound waves, this article travels across borders, following the way sound waves themselves move.
Mai Taha, Sara Salem
wiley   +1 more source

Penal Vs. Confiscation-Only Approaches in Money Laundering Control

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Law & Politics
This article examines two primary approaches to money laundering control: traditional penal and confiscation-focused approaches. These approaches are evaluated based on their potential in confiscating criminal proceeds and deterring effects.
Bikelis Skirmantas   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

«THIRD PARTIES» IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS: ANALOGIES AND PROSPECTS

open access: yesПравовое государство: теория и практика
The actual participants in criminal proceedings, deprived of their own legal status, are persons whose property rights are affected by criminal procedure decisions (on seizure of property, confiscation of property, recognition of property as material ...
SHARIPOVA Aliya Rashitovna
doaj   +1 more source

LIMITATION OF LEGAL INSTITUTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH INTERFERENCE IN THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP OF THE SUBJECT OF THE ECONOMY

open access: yesЕкономіка та право, 2018
The article is devoted to delimitation of nationalization and concepts related to it, namely expropriation, requisition, confiscation, alienation of real estate objects for the reason of social necessity.
S.S. Yatsenko
doaj   +1 more source

Objects and Evictions: The Politics of Things and the Reshaping of Urban Marginality

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Scholars have extensively documented different forms of violence experienced by homeless and evictable people, but paid less attention to how their material belongings are handled by the perpetrators of violence. Based on the method of engaged anthropology, the article identified three main regimes of handling material belongings during ...
Irina Zamfirescu
wiley   +1 more source

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