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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
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Settler Sociology: Eugenic Responses to Imperial Crises in the 20th Century
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the twentieth century, academic concerns about changes in the racial demographics of the United States emanated from the potential crisis of settler colonial decline. In their references to previous empires, stories of contact between people groups, and changes in demographics, settler scholars worked to provide solutions to the ever ...
Heidi Nicholls
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the 1921–1923 trade war between Norway and Portugal as a historical case for exploring business responses to deglobalization and trade disruption. Focusing on the international supply chains (ISCs) of port wine and salted and dried cod, it investigates how business actors contributed to the recoupling of ISCs after a ...
Rolv Petter Amdam +3 more
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Manifestations of humanism in Cuban history, politics, and culture
, 2007 The thesis explores what it deems are some of the most perceptible humanistic features in Cuban history, politics, and culture, less specified, or highlighted, or generally not presented in a cohesive body of knowledge in the western scholarly world.
Kronenberg, Clive
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, 2016 US President Barack Obama’s landmark visit to Cuba is redefining what it means to be a good neighbour and a great power in today’s world. As the first American head of state to set foot in Cuba since 1928, that too 55 years after the US severed ...
Chaulia, Sreeram
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We Are Our Memory: A Flexible Framework for Quantifying the Demographic Imprints of the Past
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Populations have demographic connections to the past: people who were exposed to the past may still be alive or may at least have living kin. Denton and Spencer and Alburez‐Gutierrez have recently articulated the concept of “demographic memory” to refer to the way in which the memory of single events lingers in populations through their age or
Hampton Gaddy
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Translating the revolution: Otherness in Cuban testimonial literature [PDF]
, 2012 Drawing on existing theories in the field, this paper seeks to explore the issues that surround the translation of Cuban testimonial texts, emphasizing the inevitable portrayal of the Self as an Other.
Raquel de Pedro Ricoy +1 more
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A New Concept of “Kim Jong Un Partizan” Discourse and Authoritarian Durability in North Korea
Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does the North Korean regime secure elite loyalty without institutional transparency or material redistribution? While existing studies have examined the use of Partizan narratives under Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, this paper argues that Kim Jong Un introduces a significant discursive shift: the invention of “Kim Jong Un Partizans.” This ...
Sohee Hwang
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A very particular set of skills: The role of perspective‐taking in hostage diplomacy negotiations
Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.Abstract Hostage diplomacy—detaining foreign nationals for leverage under the pretext of national law—is a growing international security problem. Beyond constituting a violation of international law, hostage diplomacy is challenging to resolve. Target states must deal with aggressive, sovereign perpetrators; handle a fraudulent but plausible legal ...
Danielle Gilbert, Cynthia S. Wang
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Folding cubanidad : a Deleuzian approach to contemporary Cuban cinema
, 2013 Electronic version excludes material for which permission has not been granted by the rights holder. Copyright permissions are pending.In this thesis I look at the way in which Cuban cinema of the post-Cold War period re-envisions the image of the nation
Monaldi, Paola
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