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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Buying Greenland

open access: yes
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 5-7, January/March 2025.
Deborah Mabbett
wiley   +1 more source

The Sky's the Limit? SkyKick v Sky and Speculative Trade Mark Registration

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Trade marks are registered for specific products, which defines the scope of their exclusive legal monopoly. To benefit from a broad scope, applicants increasingly overclaim. They apply for categories of products with no intention to use the mark on them in trade.
Dev S. Gangjee
wiley   +1 more source

The Global Minimum Tax and the Future of International Taxation

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Over 140 countries have agreed to the introduction of a Global Minimum Tax (GMT), widely regarded as the most significant reform of the international business tax system in a century. While acknowledging that the agreement constitutes a remarkable political and technical achievement, this article questions whether the hype over the reform is justified ...
John Vella
wiley   +1 more source

Civil society and perilous medicine in Africa: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesBMJ Glob Health
Gesesew H   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

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