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British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What are the social processes of integrating new production technologies into existing work processes? How do management and trade union approaches shape the implementation and debugging of new technologies on the shopfloor? Drawing on the industrial relations literature on debugging and four cases of technological change at a major Canadian ...
Daniel Nicholson
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Бунтовништвото и неговата мутирачка природа во XXI век [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2012 Insurgency as a form of conflict continuously remains one of the biggest challenges for the conventional armed forces. At the present moment, the United States of America are being involved into the longest period of their military history by performing ...
Nenad Taneski
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Prevalence of traded bird species in key biodiversity areas
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract The use and trade of biodiversity involve tens of thousands of species that are exploited at a range of scales, intensities, and degrees of sustainability. As a result, some are highly threatened. Key biodiversity areas (KBAs) are sites of significance for the persistence of biodiversity identified nationally based on standardized criteria ...
Oscar Morton +4 more
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Not‐so‐Freeway: A Relational Approach to Checkpoints and Conflict in Northeast India
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Along arterial roads in northeast India, bordering Myanmar, various armed groups and state actors collect ‘taxes’ at checkpoints. These checkpoints are sites of interaction where the power dynamics between armed groups, state officials and civilians are constantly negotiated, embedded in a larger network of social and political relationships ...
Shalaka Thakur
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Domination, Collaboration and Conflict in Cabo Delgado's History of Extractivism [PDF]
KronosA long history of extractive industries and activities have shaped the societies of northern Mozambique, and the Cabo Delgado province in particular. For centuries, the growing international demand on local resources had a great impact on the northern ...
João Feijó, Aslak Orre
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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
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‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
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The Importance of Intelligence in Combating a Modern Insurgency
Journal of Strategic Security, 2009 Throughout history the world has been plagued by insurgencies. While the underlying causes of each new insurgency have been different, they are all similar in certain areas.
Kevin Reamer
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Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following Myanmar's military coup in February 2021, the State Administrative Council (SAC) established checkpoints between towns under its control and rural areas increasingly governed by anti‐junta resistance forces. Here, military personnel command trade and extort from people, inflating the price of consumer goods and agricultural inputs ...
Gerard McCarthy, Kyle Nyana
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The Politics of Passage: Studying Checkpoints and Claim Making in Conflict‐affected Settings
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Roadblocks, or checkpoints, are obligatory passage points that are erected by entities claiming authority over a given crossing. They are often the most common everyday interface between civilians and armed actors in conflict‐affected contexts, but are overlooked in studies on either trade or authority amidst conflict.
Peer Schouten +4 more
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