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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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The prevalence and long-term effects of PTSD and moral injury in Swedish military veterans. [PDF]
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William A. Robson and the Making of English Administrative Law
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.This article examines the role of William A. Robson (1895‐1980) in the making of English administrative law. Criticising English common lawyers who believed that the growing responsibility of officials in law‐making and dispute resolution was a symptom of ‘administrative lawlessness’ that was sapping the foundations of English liberties, Robson argued ...
Martin Loughlin
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'“The result can scarcely fail to amuse even the most gloomy of war pessimists”: The Strand Magazine and the First World War' [PDF]
, 2019 Vuohelainen, M.
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The Defence of Public Necessity
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.This article challenges the idea that public necessity must be a complete defence to trespass liability. It identifies and distinguishes three distinct categories of public necessity: two afford justifications for interfering with person or property, whereas the third is better understood as an excuse.
Samuel Beswick
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
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MAKING AN ACCESSIBLE CITY: A Critique of Cartographic Reason through Emphasis on Corpography
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Inspired by Gunnar Olsson, this article critiques the use of cartographic reason in the process of creating an accessible city for people with disabilities. It also borrows Gregory's ontological conceptual pair of cartography and corpography, showing the ontological transformations that occur within this pair during the practical removal of ...
Pavel Doboš, Robert Osman
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THE ‘OTHERS’ OF TENT CITIES: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Following the earthquakes in Türkiye on 6 February 2023, survivors continued their daily lives in tent cities, which emerged as a new heterotopic space where the boundaries between public and private spheres became intertwined. The transition from one's own ‘castle’ to a communal living space filled with uncertainties has heightened the ...
Handan Akyigit +4 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Desertion from the military does not turn soldiers into civilians. In this paper, I analyse military identity and embodied practices of soldiers who deserted from the Zimbabwe National Army and were exiled in South Africa. Soldiering is understood as an essence part of who they are, as men who risked their lives and invested in a career, which
Godfrey Maringira
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European Journal of Political Research, EarlyView.Abstract Political parties face inherent risks when making election promises, as voters tend to penalize them for unfulfilled commitments. Nonetheless, parties make hundreds of promises. Why do parties engage in such precarious behaviour? I argue that parties employ a policy‐committing strategy when they need to increase the credibility of their policy
MATHIAS BUKH VESTERGAARD
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