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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

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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‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Determination of violent crimes in the Republic of Armenia [PDF]

Revista Institutului Naţional de Justiţie, 2019
Features of determination of violent crimes in the Republic of Armenia are considered in this article. Powerful determinants of violence not only in Armenia, but practically in all countries are poverty and social-economic stratification of the society ...
Arakelyan Sergey V.
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Behind the Canvas Curtain: Gender, Visibility, and Spectacle in the 1956 Semenyih Incident in the Malayan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has explored how obstetric violence and obstetric racism manifested historically, from post‐war Canada to colonial and postcolonial Mexico.
Paige Donaghy
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The Proliferation of Representation in Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegranates

Film-Philosophy
This article argues that Antonin Artaud's theory of the theatre of cruelty, elaborated in The Theatre and Its Double, and the procedures of Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegranates (1969) bear a crucial affinity.
Alexander Dickow
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The Ideology of Sovereign Money: How Bitcoin Harms Politics

Constellations, EarlyView.
Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten
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