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Exemption or illusion? The impact of a youth tax policy on house asking prices in Portugal
Abstract Affordable housing has become an increasing challenge for young individuals in Portugal, where rising house prices and precarious employment conditions hinder homeownership. To address this barrier, the Portuguese Government introduced a tax exemption for individuals under 35 purchasing their first home.
Luís Clemente‐Casinhas, Sofia Vale
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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (2012) reported that fashion counterfeiting keeps growing. Among the 25,000 counterfeits seized in 2011, fashion counterfeits were the largest category, representing 32%. China is one of the largest suppliers of counterfeits (Facts and Details, 2012).
Xiao Huang, Hyejeong Kim
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Fashion design in America has never been covered by the extensive intellectual property (IP) protections afforded to other categories of creative works or to the art in other countries.
Schutte, Loni
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Pure‐istan: Gender and Genocide in Pakistan
ABSTRACT This study examines the ongoing genocidal violence against the Baloch nation. It highlights how the Pakistani state has weaponized Islamic doctrine to construct a vision of a homogenized, “purer, more Islamic state” that excludes and others those deemed incompatible with its vision of purity. This logic of purification is deeply gendered.
Bramsh Khan
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Determinants of Consumer Willingness to Purchase Non-Deceptive Counterfeit Products and the European Union [PDF]
This study offers insights into non-deceptive counterfeiting by focusing on consumers in a new EU member country. More specifically, consumers’ inclination to purchase counterfeits at various price levels relative to retail prices of genuine branded ...
Irena Vida
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The prevalence of counterfeit drugs on the African continent has been increasing at an alarming rate. “Medicines that Kill” is a research paper that attempts to analyze the factors that make African countries particularly susceptible to this global ...
Abushouk, Lina Ahmed
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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Short Abstract This paper explores the relationships between Bedouin rights, citizenship and indigeneity in cultural heritage sites in Jordan. Through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with Bedouin communities, we argue that a more critical engagement with indigeneity is necessary in Jordan.
Taraf Abu Hamdan, Olivia Mason
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