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Islamist insurgency and the war against polio: a cross-national analysis of the political determinants of polio. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: There is widespread agreement that civil war obstructs efforts to eradicate polio. It is suggested that Islamist insurgents have a particularly negative effect on vaccination programmes, but this claim is controversial.
Kennedy, Jonathan +2 more
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Navigating Tensions and Contradictions: The Everyday Negotiation of Militant Research
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper explores the tensions and contradictions generated when conducting militant research from within academia. More specifically, it focuses on how they play out and shape militant research on an everyday basis, and how they are constantly negotiated by militant researchers and mediated by their diverse positionalities.
Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
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Learning the Right Lessons from Iraq [PDF]
, 2008 Foreign policy experts and policy analysts are misreading the lessons of Iraq. The emerging conventional wisdom holds that success could have been achieved in Iraq with more troops, more cooperation among U.S.
Benjamin H. Friedman +2 more
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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
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Racialised violence: Riots, space and temporality
The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This short intervention offers a historical geography‐informed approach to shape understandings of the events and racialised violence of summer 2024 in the United Kingdom. We draw upon Black British Cultural Studies to foreground the importance of temporality and spatial relations for understanding racialised violence. In doing so, we identify
Paul Griffin +2 more
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Crafting Spaces: Deleuzian Perspectives on Women's Identity Work in Male‐Dominated Jobs
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper proposes Deleuzian concepts of becoming minor, lines of flight, and deterritorialization and reterritorialization as a way of understanding identity work based on the experiences of women in male‐dominated jobs. We suggest that Deleuze's frame emphasizes fluidity and rejects category‐limited choices, and it opens up the possibility ...
Obaa Akua Konadu‐Osei +2 more
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Culture of Revenge: Analysing Blood Revenge in Pakistan's Tribal Areas
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Revenge is a widespread phenomenon present in every culture. It is defined as a motivated retaliation against an offense or wrongdoing perceived as harmful or a violation of moral norms. Previous psychological research views revenge as an expressive action done for personal satisfaction.
Muhammad Asif +3 more
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
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Politics, religion and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Northern Uganda [PDF]
, 2010 This paper outlines the current situation in Northern Uganda and examines whether conventional approaches to conflict analysis produce a convincing diagnosis of the causes of the protracted conflict between the Ugandan government and the Lord’s ...
Jackson, Paul
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Visual Arts, Insecurity and an Elusive Peace in Casamance, Senegal
International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract The separatist rebellion in Casamance, southern Senegal, has driven what is arguably the longest‐running intra‐state conflict in West Africa. Spanning over four decades, it has affected successive generations through insecurity (including armed violence and landmine use); economic disruption; trauma; human displacement (both internal and into ...
Martin Evans
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