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Firearm Safety in a Country of Arms

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Firearm safety policy in the United States cannot succeed through legislation alone; effective interventions must also address the social, economic, and infrastructural conditions that shape perceptions of safety. Evidence suggests that place‐based investments can reduce violence and firearm deaths while strengthening social cohesion and ...
JONATHAN M. METZL
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Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Public health has lost political influence because of a mismatch between the forms of power primarily deployed in this field—knowledge and moral authority—and the forms of power that currently shape societal rules and health outcomes—economic, political, ideological, and physical.
JONATHAN C. HELLER
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Technology of the future: a call for co‐development of gene editing tools in wildlife management

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
Antoinette J. Piaggio
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Health Inequalities, Intersectionality, and Justice

The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Population health science that uses large data sets to study health inequalities increasingly draws on intersectionality, the idea that overlapping forms of disadvantage shape health inequalities. This approach is essential to the pursuit of health equity because it provides a more complete and sound evidence base for population health ...
ERIKA BLACKSHER
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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A Tribunal Only in Name: Anarchic Sensibilities at the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women, 1976

History, EarlyView.
Abstract In March 1976, around 2000 women from forty countries arrived at the Palais des Congrès in Brussels to participate in the first International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Explicitly positioning themselves against the United Nations‐led ‘International Year of the Woman’, the organizers and participants of the tribunal proclaimed a global ...
NIVEDITA JOON
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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