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Ceramic ecology in an Islamic capital: changes in the production and consumption of pottery in Palermo

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
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Navigating Between Two Greedy Institutions: Family Resilience and Intergenerational Dynamics in Turkish Military Families

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how career military families in Türkiye navigate competing institutional demands, how military community structures foster resilience, and how military identity is transmitted across generations. Background Military families must negotiate the demands of two greedy institutions—the armed forces and the family—yet ...
Adem Baspinar, Halime Okay
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The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading

The German Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
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Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal [PDF]

Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S.
Card, David, Cardoso, Ana Rute
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“Tragic,” “Torment,” and “Torture”: Leadership as Fertile Ground for Women's Organizational Misogyny

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This feminist study explores women's hostilities toward women in UK leadership as organizational misogyny. Organizations are mostly silent about misogyny, and gender studies have yet to empirically interrogate organizational misogyny and expose it as a critical method of women's oppression. Here, we explore women's organizational misogyny (WOM)
Sharon Mavin, Gina Grandy
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Employment Effects of Army Service and Veterans’ Compensation: Evidence from the Australian Vietnam-Era Conscription Lotteries [PDF]

Exploiting the Australian National Service lotteries of 1965-72, I estimate the effect of Army service on employment outcomes. Population data from military personnel records, tax returns, veterans’ compensation records and the Census facilitate a rich ...
Siminski, Peter
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Conscription 2.0: Compulsory Military Service and the Rise of Women in the Swedish Armed Forces

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides a deeper understanding of gender integration in the Swedish Armed Forces, often portrayed as a “North Star” of gender equality, by studying (1) numeric data on the presence of women in the SAF from 2001 to 2023, (2) how official SAF personnel documents describe and explain these data, and (3) how gender integration ...
Elin Berg, Ralph Sundberg
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Don\u27t Give a War Toy This Christmas [PDF]

, 2017
A flyer from the End Conscription Campaign advocating against the purchase of children’s toys that resemble weapons for Christmas.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ecc/1020/thumbnail ...
End Conscription Campaign
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The Decentralization of Liquor Policies in Texas During the Post‐Prohibition Era

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the decentralization of liquor policies in Texas during the Post‐Prohibition era using newly collected historical legislative roll call data. By combining these data with local referendum vote shares, we analyze both legislators' and constituents' preferences on liquor policy.
Andrew Arnold, Holger Sieg
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Back to School Blues? [PDF]

, 2017
A pamphlet promoting the End Conscription Campaign’s event to show the movie “Hair” (1979) to open a conversation about war and military service.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ecc/1012/thumbnail ...
End Conscription Campaign
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