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Boko Haram Insurgency and Environmental Degradation in the North-East Region of Nigeria, 2009-2021
Journal of Central and Eastern European African StudiesThe Boko Haram (BH) insurgency has attracted global attention because it has lingered for over ten years now and gory news of serial killings, ambushes of security personnel and convoys, abductions, internal displaced persons/refugee crisis, among ...
Usman Isah Ya'u
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Spectres of Black Flags in the Miombo: The Islamic State's coverage of their Mozambique province, 2022-2023 [PDF]
KronosThis article studies the Islamic State's only remaining periodical, Al-Naba, identifying the most common tropes and patterns in the periodical's Sub-Saharan Africa coverage, and on Mozambique in particular.
Stig Jarle Hansen, Ida Bary
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Insurgency, Counter-Insurgency and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria
Age of Human Rights Journal, 2014 Insurgents’ activities and government’s counter-insurgency operations have claimed hundreds of lives and destroyed many human habitations and sources of livelihoods across Nigeria.
Afeno Super Odomovo
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Journal of Central and Eastern European African Studies, 2023 Boko Haram insurgency brings with it unprecedented consequences, particularly in records of multiple deaths and devastating effects on socio-economic dynamics of the nation. Since no state would stay without responding to threats to its national security,
UGWUMBA EGBUTA, Aishatu Morido YANET
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III +2 more
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Urban Climate Insurgency: An Introduction
Social Text, 2022 Urban climate insurgency refers to the ensemble of grassroots initiatives aiming to tackle climate change from a radical point of view. Insurgency in this case does not imply violence but rather refers to the radical rejection of the current socioecological system.
Armiero, Marco +3 more
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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Boko Haram Insurgency and the 2015 General Elections in Nigeria
Journal of International Studies, 2015 This is a study of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, and how it affected the 2015 General Elections in the country. The Boko Haram is a Muslim fundamentalist sect founded in 2002, but the insurgency it mounted in Nigeria in 2009 has dovetailed into ...
Emmanuel Ikechi Onah
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
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