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‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Connected Vehicles into IoT Ecosystems: A Comparative Study of Low-Power, Long-Range Communication Technologies. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel)
Iordache V   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Should Ongoing Surgical Care Needs be Met During Global Health Engagements?

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Department of Defense has a long history of Global Health Engagement, beginning with identifying and developing vaccines for yellow fever, influenzae, and malaria. Contemporary examples of global health engagement include the worldwide deployment of military assets to aid in natural disasters, and deployment of ship and land based medical ...
John S. Oh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Sara Crangle, Sam Ladkin
wiley   +1 more source
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Measurement of logistics service quality in freight forwarding companies

International Journal of Logistics Management, 2016
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine how customers from different market segments assess the quality of freight forwarding services, depending on the structure of services, as well as the mutual relation between the freight forwarder and the customers.
Milan Andrejić
exaly   +2 more sources

Freight forwarding in Greece: Services provided and choice criteria

EuroMed Journal of Business, 2006
Freight forwarders are intermediary companies involved in Logistics. Their task is to manage all functions involved in transport after the buy process of merchandise is complete. The main objectives of the present work are to evaluate the criteria on which production companies choose particular freight forwarders, to point out the elements that affect ...
Athanassios Mihiotis, Costas P Pappis
exaly   +2 more sources

The role of innovation and freight forwarding services on export performance

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of innovation and freight forwarding services in firm’s export performance. The study combines data from exporting companies and freight forwarding firms from Greece to examine the relationship between innovation, knowledge of freight forwarding activities and exports. The study focuses on two dimensions
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