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ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Study of the Criminals’ Extradition Regulations in the Light of the Criminal Laws of Iran and Vietnam [PDF]
Criminal extradition is a special process in international criminal proceedings, which is implemented by countries based on the signing of bilateral or multilateral international treaties, and if no agreement has been signed between the governments, it ...
Mohaddeseh Sadeghian Lamraski
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
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Abortion Access Persists, but So Do the Threats
Abstract “Shield laws” declare that, for purposes of reproductive health care, the law of the jurisdiction in which the clinician practices governs when state laws conflict. In 2024, approximately 100,000 pregnant people living in states that criminalize abortion provision received pills for a medication abortion from a clinician living in one of the ...
Katie Watson
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Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey
ABSTRACT Conducting ethnographic research in financial institutions is challenging because secrecy is pivotal for traders to maintain their expert image. It became more difficult in Turkey after the failed coup in 2016 as Turkish President Erdoğan increasingly weaponized conspiracies that are historically and politically rooted in Turkish society to ...
Deniz Coral‐Irwin
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The Impact of Perceived Consumer Effectiveness and Consumer Cynicism on Political Consumerism
ABSTRACT Although numerous studies have examined factors influencing engagement in political consumerism, scholars have paid less attention to the role of consumer beliefs. The present study aims at conceptualizing the role of perceived consumer effectiveness (PCE) as both an antecedent of political consumerism and a condition that can strengthen the ...
Francis L. F. Lee
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The Changing Landscape of UK-EU Policing and Justice Cooperation
(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2020 5(1), 479-492 | European Forum Insight of 26 May 2020 | (Table of Contents) I. Introduction. - II. Negotiating positions. - III. Extradition. - IV. Europol. - V.
Rachael Dickson, Amanda Kramer
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Inducing Compliance: Shaping Audiences' Perceptions in China's Cyber Crime Enforcement
ABSTRACT Through case studies in the South Pacific and an examination of Chinese sources, this article examines two dimensions of China's cybercrime enforcement beyond its borders: how it manages to repatriate cybercriminals in the absence of formal extradition agreements, and why these repatriations are surrounded by a high degree of performativity ...
Graeme Smith
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ABSTRACT Much of scholarly writing on compliance is derived from the experiences of Western multi‐national corporations operating in developed economies. This introduction to the special issue “China in Compliance” departs from such convention by asking how compliance works in China.
Matthew S. Erie
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Prosecutor v Dragan Nikolic: decision on defence motion on illegal capture [PDF]
In November 1994 the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), indicted its first accused, Dragan Nikolic. It was not until over five years later, however, in April 2000, that he was finally arrested and transferred to The Hague ...
Sloan, J.
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