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Katrina's Diaspora: Lessons in Black Ambivalence
Abstract This essay examines post‐Katrina New Orleans to challenge overdetermining narratives of Black resistance at the expense of other modes of being, while countering portrayals reducing resistance to demands for inclusion into violent subjectivity.
Jaz Riley
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Legal Brokers of Chinese Investment in Cambodia: Compliance Between Contract and Culture
ABSTRACT In conventional understandings of compliance, lawyers and compliance officers internalize compliance within corporations. Complicating this model, this article argues that compliance professionals may occupy a Janus‐faced role between informality and formality.
Matthew S. Erie +2 more
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ABSTRACT Multiracial Americans and Asian American populations are two of the fastest growing racial groups in the United States. Our article is the first to highlight three similarities that show how these groups are uniquely racially misunderstood: (a) both are subsumed under racial umbrella terms that obscure tremendous diversity, (b) both have been ...
Chandra D. L. Waring +2 more
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Abstract Background Latinos are 1.5 times more likely than non‐Latino Whites to develop Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). This increased risk is partly attributable to a higher prevalence of risk factors, though the exact connection remains unclear.
Randy Medrano +13 more
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Abstract Background The aim of the LEAD 2.0 Trial is to understand whether a 6‐month online exercise and diet intervention is feasible among older adults at risk for dementia. Here we describe preliminary data on recruitment feasibility and baseline characteristics of LEAD 2.0 participants.
Bobby Neudorf +15 more
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Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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ABSTRACT ‘Left‐behind places’ (LBPs) are generally defined as places experiencing economic stagnation and decline, typically reflected in post‐industrial regions and rural areas. In recent years, the concept has gained increased popularity within urban and regional studies in the United Kingdom (UK) and other European countries.
Morgan Sleeth +3 more
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The Formal, the Informal, and the Precarious: Making a Living in Urban Papua New Guinea [PDF]
For many Papua New Guineans, the dominant accounts of 'the economy' contained within development reports, government documents and the media do not adequately reflect their experiences of making a living.
Cox, John +4 more
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The Globality of Islam: Sharia as a Nigerian 'Self-Determination' Movement [PDF]
This paper was produced as part of a project at the University of California, Santa Cruz titled Globalization, State Capacity and Islamic Movements. The objective of this paper to assess how globalization and Islam impact the capacity of national states ...
Paul Lubeck, Ronnie Lipschutz and Erik Weeks
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SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA
Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
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