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Access Denied: A Critical Review of Water Service Shutoffs Under Financialized Capitalism

open access: yesWIREs Water, Volume 13, Issue 5, September/October 2026.
A visual metaphor of water shutoffs (Image source: Plumbing Poverty project). ABSTRACT The denial of household access to running water through service shutoffs is a common practice among water providers, yet the scope and nature of the problem remain poorly understood.
Lucy Everitt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exemplary Damages as Public Interest Damages: Implications for Rights of Action, Settlement and the Distribution of Awards

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 760-784, September 2026.
Exemplary damages are commonly understood as public interest awards. This article explores the logical implications of understanding them in this way for a tort claimant's rights of action and settlement, and for the proper distribution of awards. One implication, it suggests, is that settlements, being compromises of public ends, should require court ...
Kit Barker
wiley   +1 more source

‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 397, Page 556-576, September 2026.
Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
wiley   +1 more source

READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 1247-1265, September 2026.
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
wiley   +1 more source

‘The White Hordes From the West’: Race and Refuge in Australian Media Commentary About White Rhodesians During Zimbabwe's Decolonisation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 3, Page 449-462, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores Australian media commentary on white Rhodesians migrating to Australia, focusing on the period of Malcolm Fraser's prime ministership (1975–1983). The main argument is that the Australian media debates about whether to classify white Rhodesians as ‘migrants’ or ‘refugees’ were not merely semantic but reflected a deeper ...
George Bishi, Ana Stevenson
wiley   +1 more source

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