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The Growing Threat of Boko Haram to Regional Security
Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan, 2021 This Research will analyse and delves into one of the most notorious terrorist groups in today’s world Islamic State of West Africa commonly known as Boko Haram. Through this paper's medium, we will delve into one of the most brutal and heinous terrorist
Hafidz Ridha Try Sjahputra +1 more
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Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2013 This work seeks to establish continuities and ruptures between the discourses related to the war in Afghanistan by intellectuals, politicians, and soldiers.
Tomás Leyton
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FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
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Oil Multinationals and The Fight against Insurgency In The Niger Delta Of Nigeria
Ayika, 2011 Often times, the government, corporate bodies, the body of civil rights, non-governmental organizations and individuals only talk about the devastating effects of the activities of the insurgents, without mentioning the root cause of insurgency.
Ojighoro Reuben Edafenene
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AUGURAL TERRITORIES: On the Prophetic Organizing of the Mid‐range
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I introduce the concept of augural territories to theorize the urbanism that emerged during pandemic lockdowns. I draw on ethnographic research in Madrid to examine how community‐based responses—including mutual aid networks, food pantries and neighbourhood associations—disrupted the spatial and temporal logics of territorial ...
Alberto Corsín Jiménez
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Confidence-building measures in resolving the conflict of 2001 in the Republic of Macedonia [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2014 Our research will be specifically focused on conflicts, with a particular accent on the confidence-building measures (trust-building measures) in the process of conflict resolution, as an essential element of any sustainable conflict settlement process.
Blagica Kotovchevska
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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Forgotten Cape – Extremist violence in Northern Mozambique
Belügyi SzemleAim: The aim of the study is to provide an overview of the violent extremist insurgency in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province with a special emphasis on developments in 2023 and 2024. Methods: The study is based on the review of secondary literature,
Károly Gergely
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article outlines possibilities for counter configurations of data‐based urbanisms, whereby data practices, rather than reproducing logics of urban entrepreneurialism and smart‐city governance, are made from within urban peripheral territories.
Andrés Luque‐Ayala, Rodrigo Firmino
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