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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Corruption as a crime within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court? [PDF]
, 2013 Magister Legum - LLMThis research paper will examine whether the ICC should de lege ferenda be accorded jurisdiction in respect of the crime of corruption.
Kling, Florian
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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We use a data set of federal corruption convictions in the U. S. to investigate the causes and consequences of corruption. More educated states, and to a less degree richer states, have less corruption. This relationship holds even when we use historical
Edward L. Glaeser, Raven Saks
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1970s were a decade of huge change for women in Colombia, from the legalisation of divorce to increased access to education, labour market participation and contraception. This article examines how the Catholic non‐governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action, ACPO) responded to women's changing roles and ...
Anna Cant
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Corruption as the cause, not the effect, of organized crime?
Journal of Economic CriminologyThis analysis uses known corruption cases, serious enough to be prosecuted by governments, to develop an empirical description of the nature of corruption and its connections to organized crime. More than 200 cases from the U.S.
Jay S. Albanese
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2014 Objective: to develop and describe the algorithm of strategic management impacts on criminological situation of a constituency and to develop qualitative and quantitative indicators of the management activities efficiency of the subjects of anti ...
Y. N. Klimova
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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