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Strategic litigation as a challenge for deliberative democracy
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Strategic litigation is a growing public concern, but remains understudied in democratic theory. In strategic litigation, collectives go to court with a political agenda that goes beyond their specific case. How should we assess the legitimacy of strategic litigation? Building on Lafont's model of deliberative democracy and Klein's distinction
Svenja Ahlhaus
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Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.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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Forensic analysis and sequence variation of 133 STRs in the Hakka population
Frontiers in GeneticsIntroduction: Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) are highly valuable genetic markers in forensic science. However, the conventional PCR-CE technique has limitations, and the emergence of massively parallel sequencing (MPS) technology presents new opportunities ...
Yuhang Feng +8 more
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropological methods and theory have historically marginalized hometown research while they have privileged the study of the “Other.” This essay discusses the prevalent challenges and misconceptions surrounding research conducted in one's hometown, while advancing its legitimacy as an anthropological field site.
Dada Docot
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Parents, Children, Marriage: Bulgarian Courts’ View on Romani Marriage-making
Martor, 2020 This commentary deals with customary early marriages as practiced by some Romani communities in Bulgaria, and the ways in which they are represented in judgments issued by the criminal courts.
Maria G. Nikolova
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Anthropological Perspectives on Criminal Behavior: Understanding Cultural Contexts
, 2023 Putri Amalia Zubaedah, Royyan Hafizi
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Deadly Predators and Virtuous Buddhists: Dog Population Control and the Politics of Ethics in Ladakh [PDF]
, 2019 The region of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas has recently seen a rise in attacks by stray dogs, some of which have been fatal. The dogs’ claims on territory have not gone uncontested in an emotional landscape fraught with anxieties over religious ...
Gagné, Karine
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Archiving Futurity Within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Crisis
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, we examine how settler colonization and gendered violence against Indigenous women are remembered and recorded in two archival registers: 18th‐century records from the Massachusetts Archives Collection (MAC) and a 21st‐century corpus of posts using the hashtag MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) on X (formerly Twitter)
Lindsay Martel Montgomery +2 more
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