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Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann +7 more
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Robber Barons Rising: The Potential for Resource Conflict in Ghazni, Afghanistan
Security and governance in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan are threatened by resource conflict dynamics: groups focus on exploiting lootable resources in the short term while weak institutions and conflict persist.
Matthew P Dearing, Cynthia Braden
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Terror in Galilee: British-Jewish collaboration and the Special Night Squads in Palestine during the Arab revolt, 1938–39 [PDF]
This essay examines an aspect of British counter-insurgency in Palestine in the 1930s during the Arab revolt there against British colonial rule and Jewish settlement: the pro-British, anti-rebel Palestinian militia “peace bands,” associated with the ...
Hughes, M
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Abstract This article expands social psychiatrist Mindy Fullilove's characterisation of US postwar urban community root shock in time and space. We explore the impacts of land dispossession and population displacement on Black farming communities and their health from colonial origins on.
Robert G. Wallace +5 more
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The confluence of illegality, counterinsurgency, and marginality in Colombia has led to the militarization of social life, national politics, policy making, and state practices in peripheral areas.
María Clemencia Ramírez
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THE US STRATEGY OF ARMED DRONE USAGE IN FIGHTING THE TALIBAN ELEMENTS IN PAKISTAN (2004-2016)
Prior to the Trump’s presidency the US have performed as many as 400 armed drone strikes in Pakistan, killing approximately 3.000 terrorist targets including key leaders that hold important value to the organizations.
Nisrina Nadhifa +1 more
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Secure and Monitor: Racial Regimes of Property and Policing in Gentrifying Halifax
ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between gentrification and policing by considering how regimes of property and policing produce racial subjects. To do so, we draw together recent scholarship on racial regimes of property and a more established literature on community policing.
Ted Rutland, Aaliyah Arab‐Smith
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The Enemy of my Enemy is my Friend… The Dynamics of Self Defense Forces in Irregular War: The Case of the Sons of Iraq [PDF]
This paper assesses the effect that leveraging civilian defense force militias has on the dynamics of violence in civil war. We argue that the delegation of security and combat roles to local civilians shifts the primary targets of insurgent violence ...
Clayton, Govinda, Thomson, Andrew
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ABSTRACT Agricultural land in the United States is currently undergoing a major transition. Seventy percent of land is expected to change hands in the next 20 years, with many existing farmers ready to retire and lacking heirs interested in agriculture. This moment is not lost on financial institutions, which are buying up land in search of new sources
Laura‐Anne Minkoff‐Zern +1 more
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‘The “Bowl of Jelly”: The Department of State in the Kennedy and Johnson Years, 1961-68’, [PDF]
The article explores efforts to reform the State Department under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, with the intention of making the Department better able to lead and coordinate the sprawling foreign policy apparatus. However, Kennedy soon gave up on what
Colman, Jonathan
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