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Multidimensional Militarisation, Evidence From Mexico's War on Drugs

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article documents different dimensions of militarisation observed in Mexico since the start of the war on drugs. It argues that militarisation is a multidirectional phenomenon that is characterised by rationales that justify the use of illegal means to address complex issues, promising expediency and efficiency but rarely delivering on it.
Agustin Hernandez Berea
wiley   +1 more source

‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

FEATURES OF ASSESSING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF HOTEL ENTERPRISES

open access: yesPROBLEMS OF SYSTEMIC APPROACH IN THE ECONOMY, 2019
openaire   +1 more source

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

Nature positive rhetoric, risk and reality: sector-scale political ecology at CBD COP16. [PDF]

open access: yesNPJ Biodivers
Buckley RC   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Privatization Under Political Ties

open access: yesThe Journal of Industrial Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I study a product differentiation model with endogenous entry where a politically connected public firm competes with a private one. Consumers are heterogeneous in their willingness to pay. I argue that—because of political ties—the public firm may mimic the preferences of the consumer with the median willingness to pay.
Matteo Broso
wiley   +1 more source

Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
wiley   +1 more source

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