David Marquand and Progressive Politics
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Throughout his career, David Marquand grappled with the shape of modern British history, arranging it into different traditions, lineages and timelines. The Progressive Dilemma was the culmination of one such strand of work, centred around his interest in the relationship between social democracy and social liberalism.
Emily Robinson
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Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) as a participatory process: involving communities and beneficiaries in post-conflict disarmament programmes [PDF]
, 2008 Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) programmes are a structured approach to returning soldiers and militia members to civilian life. One of the aims is to support implementation of the peace process, by addressing their interests and ...
Kilroy, Walt
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In this article, I delve into the field diary of Ma Changshou – a major Chinese ethnohistorian and social anthropologist active between the 1930s and 1960s – to show how his journeys through Liangshan, a mountainous land in Southwest China inhabited by the Nuosu‐Yi, led to a new kind of anthropological knowledge.
Jan Karlach
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Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: The co-evolution of concepts, practices, and understanding [PDF]
, 2009 Programs for the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants have become more common as an element in the peacebuilder’s toolkit.
Kilroy, Walt
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Education and outreach activities within the biological weapons convention [PDF]
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Revill, James
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
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Disarmament in the context of the international economic order [PDF]
This paper focuses on an economic aspect of the disarmament question: the international market of armaments. I shall explore the thesis that arms trade is an increasingly important factor in North-South economic relations, that it affects not only ...
Chichilnisky, Graciela
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Does AIDS involve some collusion by the neuro-immune system because of positive learning of the disarmament strategy? [PDF]
, 2013 International audienceKorzybski's general semantics recommends considering living beings as organisms-as-a-whole in their environment. Our cognitive abilities, specific to the human species, have thus to be taken into account.
Sandoz, Patrick
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BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION)
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Compassion in urban settings is manifested less as a definitive practice than as a panoply of spatial and temporal orientations that lend uncertainty to the dispositions of actions and events. This is an uncertainty that can be either generative or debilitating, and it is difficult to predict which in advance. Thus, apertures and opportunities
Abdoumaliq Simone
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Gorby games: A game theoretic analysis of disarmament campaigns and the defense efficiency-hypothesis [PDF]
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Damme, E.E.C. van, Güth, W.
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