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Monsters of finance

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
wiley   +1 more source

Canada's Ethics Commissioner and the Watchdog Model of Ethics Enforcement

Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite notable progress, the OECD recently noted that conflict of interest regulation still suffers from poor implementation and how to ensure effective enforcement of ethics rules remains an important challenge. One popular but under‐examined approach is to rely on an ethics watchdog: an independent agency with few powers that can ...
Luc Juillet
wiley   +1 more source

Family Perspectives on Disappearance: Perceived Contributing Factors and Coping Strategies for Ambiguous Loss

Family Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to examine how families interpret disappearances, to assess their psychological and emotional impact, and to explore perceived support and coping strategies. Background Disappearances are a widespread yet understudied phenomenon with severe psychological consequences for affected families. The uncertainty surrounding
Martina La Gamma, Pilar Flores, Judith Velasco, Reyes Rodríguez, Carlos Bardavío, Manuel Moyano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Um Tribunal Constitucional Internacional para garantir os direitos democráticos e os Direitos Humanos

Revista Direito GV
Resumo O artigo apresenta a defesa do Projeto do Tribunal Constitucional Internacional como mecanismo de garantia dos Direitos Internacionais e das Liberdades Democráticas na comunidade internacional.
Quênida de Rezende Menezes
doaj   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source

Competing Visions of Democracy in EU Disinformation Governance: Framing the Digital Services Act in the European Parliament

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Disinformation has become a contentious issue within the European Union (EU) and in transatlantic relations, raising fundamental questions about how democratic societies should regulate online content. This article investigates how competing democratic visions shape European Parliamentary debates on the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Linus Wahlberg, Sara Wissén
wiley   +1 more source

Una propuesta de análisis de trayectorias de justicia transicional

Razón Crítica, 2018
Pasado un tiempo desde la tercera ola de democratización, los estudiosos de la justicia transicional se plantean nuevas preguntas y, además de indagar por la conveniencia de implantar determinados mecanismos de rendición de cuentas, se ha abordado el ...
Martha Liliana Gutiérrez Salazar
doaj   +1 more source

Auto de resistência:1 A acção colectiva de mulheres familiares de vítimas de violência armada policial no Rio de Janeiro

Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2010
Like Argentina, El Salvador and Guatemala, amongst other countries, Brazil, and more specifically Rio de Janeiro, has witnessed the mobilisation of families of victims of armed violence, in particular massacres carried out by agents of the state.
Tatiana Moura, Rita Santos, Bárbara Soares   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Lubanga verdict: a milestone in the fight against impunity? Egmont Commentary, 22 March 2012

, 2012
It took the International Criminal Court (ICC) about six years to come to a conclusion in the case against Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militia leader who was a leading figure in the Ituri conflict.
Vlassenroot, Koen
core  

Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source