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Freedmen with Firearms: White Terrorism and Black Disarmament During Reconstruction

, 2014
The outcome of the Civil War brought freedom to over six million slaves of African descent. These Freedmen communities remained a critical source of labor for the agrarian based economy of the southern U.S.
Schenk, David H.
core  

Detecting Intrusion: Electronic Security, Sensoriality, and Spatial Relations in Kingston, Jamaica

City &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Kingston, Jamaica, decades of high crime coupled with the failure of the state to effectively provide public security have given rise to a booming private security industry. In this landscape, middle‐ and upper‐class residents have turned to electronic security technologies to fortify their homes against the threat of a home intrusion.
Kimberley D. McKinson
wiley   +1 more source

How Do We Get Rid of These Things? Dismantling Excess Weapons While Protecting the Environment [PDF]

, 1995
The startling successes of contemporary international arms control negotiations call to mind the old aphorism that one should be careful about what one wishes for, because the wish just might come true.
Koplow, David A
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A Bathroom of One's Own: Intimacies of Austerity and Austerities of Intimacy in Barbara Pym's Fiction

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
wiley   +1 more source

Dams, hegemony and beyond: China’s hydro-stability in the evolving world order

Discover Global Society
Water has remained a source of contentious and cooperative politics among states since the Sumerian civilization. The field of hydro-politics, since its emergence in the 1990s, had taken note of dams as both a source of conflict between riparian ...
Porkkodi Ganeshpandian
doaj   +1 more source

Post-Disarmament International Law [PDF]

, 1967
John N. Hazard
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Transition from war to peace: the Ethiopian disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration experience

, 2017
The objective of this paper is to chronicle the 1991 to 1997 Ethiopian disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) experience in the context of Ethiopia’s transition from war to peace.
M. Berhe
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Radical Pluralization: Mobilizing the Multiple Self in Democratic Engagements

Constellations, EarlyView.
Hans Asenbaum, Taina Meriluoto
wiley   +1 more source

The Enduring Problem of Statism: Social War, Total Liberation and Postdevelopment in the Decolonization Industry

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Confronting statism within the university, this article argues that statism is colonialism. By recognizing statism as the foundational structure of colonialism, the author illuminates the immediate technologies and evolving structures of socio‐ecological subjugation across various cultural, historical and political contexts.
Alexander Dunlap
wiley   +1 more source

Adjustment costs and fluctuations in competitions

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract History has repeatedly shown that periods of military disarmament are often followed by periods of rearmament when new geopolitical tensions arise. This paper analyses the causes of these cycles in a theoretical model. Two competitors compete in a repeated contest.
Martin Grossmann
wiley   +1 more source