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Economics of Kashmir Confict

open access: yesHIMALAYA, 2020
In a political conflict like Kashmir, human loss is the first tragedy coupled with the economic damage to the oppressed class. Repeated shutdowns that include curfews and protests have dented the economy of Kashmir, a fact that is irrefutable.
Bilal A. Pandow
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Dream of a Poetry of Defense: The Double Lyrics of Timothy Donnelly

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies
This article presents the first extended critical engagement with the work of the contemporary American poet Timothy Donnelly. It suggests that central to Donnelly’s practice is his crafting of a style of double lyric to explore the simultaneous forming ...
Lee Spinks
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The Dual‐Use Conundrum of the Lisbon Treaty Regarding Space Governance: Solutions Through International Legal Interpretation?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An inherent divide features within the Lisbon Treaty between civilian and military/security competences; something previously more obvious via the ‘pillar system's’ separations. This division follows the Member States (MS) (natural) protection of their military/defence autonomy; their core sovereign powers.
Charlie J. P. Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Commentary

open access: yesJournal of World-Systems Research, 2015
Alf Hornborg says many useful things in his article, “Ecosystems and World Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process.” His effort to “ground the notion of capital accumulation in the physical realities of ecology and thermodynamics” is a much-needed
Jason W. Moore
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Unpacking China's Digital Ascent in the Global South: The Case of Huawei in North Africa

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite frequent concerns in Western policy and media circles about the risks of using Chinese telecommunications suppliers, firms like Huawei have encountered little resistance from governments or citizens in the Global South. Empirical research explaining this acceptance remains limited.
Tin Hinane El Kadi
wiley   +1 more source

Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
wiley   +1 more source

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