Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia
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
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Development of an Operational Protocol for Animal Hoarding: A Conceptual Proposal Based on Multidisciplinary Field Experience. [PDF]
Bellini F +4 more
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Sonic Cartographies of Internationalism
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
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Not a Sip: Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Road Traffic Fatalities. [PDF]
Ramasco A.
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The level of direct property in Hong Kong property company performance
Hong Kong is one of the most dynamic property markets in the world, and now provides the economic gateway to China. Using style analysis, the level of direct property in Hong Kong property company performance is shown to be approximately 15 per cent over
Wong, SK +5 more
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Objects and Evictions: The Politics of Things and the Reshaping of Urban Marginality
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
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Secrecy strategies: Global patterns in elites' quest for confidentiality in offshore finance. [PDF]
Chang HH, Harrington B, Rockmore D.
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Agrarianizing Urbanization: Opening the Wastelands of China's Megacities
ABSTRACT In two of China's largest megacities, Guangzhou and Wuhan, apparently ordinary individuals are deciding—independently, without organization, support or legal rights—to appropriate empty lands and transform them into cultivation landscapes in a practice called kāihuāng (‘wasteland opening’).
Hanxi Wang
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Diseases and Mortality in Confiscated Birds and Reptiles Housed in a Wildlife Rescue Center Under the CITES Directive. [PDF]
Martín A +6 more
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Short Abstract This article is oriented within the logic of the decolonial framework to examine prison entry, ethical considerations and emotional vulnerability, using Ghana as a case study. The study highlights how the African ethos of communalism and shared identity, which I called Ti jaa bonyeni, can serve as a resource for mitigating the challenges
Unusah Aziz
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