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Prevention, control and monitoring of fires in the Brazilian cerrado

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2020
The Brazilian Cerrado covers 24% of the national territory. It is home of a diversity of phytophysiognomies that shelters about 5% of the world's biodiversity.
Lara Steil   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Rhetorics of Counternationalism: The Limitations of Digital Anti‐Hindutva in Combating Right‐Wing Extremism

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are online discourses in subissues within counternationalist movements constructed? This study better understands what comprises digital counternationalist dissent against right‐wing nationalism, finding that right‐wing nationalism's success can also be explained through limitations in counternationalist discourse.
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

Small and light arms violence reduction as a public health measure: the case of Libya

open access: yesConflict and Health, 2018
The conflict environment in Libya is characterized by continued pervasive insecurity amidst the widespread availability of small arms and light weapons (SALW).
Gemma Bowsher   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring Administrative Burden: Bringing the State “Back in” as a Reflexive Actor in Burden Reduction

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governments measure administrative burdens in citizen–state interactions. Although scholarly interest in the burden framework has grown, little is known about how states themselves track and reduce these costs. A scoping review of 38 academic and gray sources, complemented by interviews with 11 experts, identifies six ...
Pierre‐Marc Daigneault   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Feminism and Peacebuilding in Bangsamoro: Redefining Women's Empowerment Beyond Liberal Norms

open access: yesPeace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Islamic feminism as a culturally grounded framework for women's empowerment and peacebuilding in post‐conflict Bangsamoro, Philippines. Global empowerment frameworks tend to prioritize individual autonomy and universal gender equality but often overlook the sociocultural and religious contexts shaping women's lived ...
Haironesah Domado
wiley   +1 more source

Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War

open access: yesQUEST Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2018
The title of Gerben Zaagsma’s new book Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War hardly does justice to the scope of this work.
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Collègues, égales et camarades. Les volontaires étrangères dans la guerre civile espagnole (1936-1939)

open access: yesCahiers d’histoire, 2019
Hundreds of women from all over the world came to Spain between 1936 and 1938 to defend the Republic as volunteers. For a long time their commitment was almost forgotten, and historical research focused solely on the "Spanienkämpfer", the male foreigners
Renée Lugschitz
doaj   +1 more source

A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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