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State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
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Citizen Skeptic: Cicero’s Academic Republicanism [PDF]
, 2015 The skeptical challenge to politics is that if knowledge is in short supply and it is a condition for the proper use of political power, then there is very little just politics.
Aikin, Scott
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Experience and Epistemic Structure: Can Cognitive Penetration Result in Epistemic Downgrade? [PDF]
, 2020 Reflection on the possibility of cases in which experience is cognitively penetrated has suggested to many that an experience's etiology can reduce its capacity to provide prima facie justification for believing its content below a baseline.
Chudnoff, Elijah
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International Journal of Management Reviews, EarlyView.Abstract As the stalling progress suggests, gender equality remains out of reach without the active and effective engagement of men ‘leaning in together’ with women, as partners in change. The literature increasingly recognizes men's allyship in work organizations as a vital force in the pursuit of gender equality, yet reaches different conclusions ...
Ronit Kark, Claudia Buengeler
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Epistemic Abstainers, Epistemic Martyrs, and Epistemic Converts [PDF]
, 2010 An intuitive view regarding the epistemic significance of disagreement says that when epistemic peers disagree, they should suspend judgment. This abstemious view seems to embody a kind of detachment appropriate for rational beings; moreover, it seems to
Aikin, Scott F. +2 more
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Popper's Flirt with Dogmatism [PDF]
, 2019 At various occasions Popper states that in order for a theory to show its strength “certain amount” of dogmatism must precede the critical testing phase. He even argues that dogmatism is a necessary precondition of criticism.
Parusniková, Zuzana
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, 2018 Philosophers and psychologists often distinguish episodic or personal memory from propositional or semantic memory. A vexed issue concerns the role, if any, of memory “impressions” or “seemings” within the latter.
Teroni, Fabrice
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Journal of Midwifery &Women's Health, EarlyView.Introduction Women of refugee backgrounds who are pregnant continue to face significant challenges after migration, including barriers to accessing adequate perinatal care, resulting in higher risks for poor perinatal outcomes. To address these barriers and reduce these risks, it is imperative to understand the viewpoints of those involved in perinatal
Shadow Toke +3 more
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Does Epistemic Humility Threaten Religious Beliefs? [PDF]
, 2018 In a fallen world fraught with evidence against religious beliefs, it is tempting to think that, on the assumption that those beliefs are true, the best way to protect them is to hold them dogmatically.
Dormandy, Katherine
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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
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