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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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Kear v. Hilton: Enforcing the Treaty On Extradition Between the United States and Canada [PDF]
, 1984 This Note examines the justness of the Kear decision. The current provisions of the Extradition Treaty, the powers of bounty hunters, and the role of the courts in regulating extradition are discussed.
Hyland, John A.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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Kidnappings of international tourists in Nigeria: Impacts on the hospitality sector [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2020 Nigeria is facing all sorts of criminal and safety problems, one of which is kidnapping which seems to be very rampant and predominant in the country. The hospitality sector and in particular, the lodging and hotel accommodation seems to be most affected
Kola O. Odeku
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Shaping Public Opinion and the Law: How a “Common Man” Campaign Ended a Rich Man’s Law [PDF]
, 2010 Kornhauser recounts the legislation which enacted in 1934 required all income taxpayers to submit pink slips with their tax returns. The information required by the pink slip would then be made available for public inspection. The disclosure regime was
Kornhauser, Marjorie E.
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History, EarlyView.Abstract In the summer of 1919, W. T. Goode, the Manchester Guardian’s special correspondent in Russia and the Baltic, was arrested in the Estonian capital Tallinn and briefly detained aboard a British warship. Goode's detention caused a furore, leading to accusations of kidnap, heated commentary in the press and questions in parliament.
Colin Storer
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, 2018 This article discusses the historical origins of the “stranger danger” myth, including the conditions that fueled the spread of panic. It explains how the myth was bolstered by increased media coverage, emotional appeals by parents, and public awareness ...
Wodda, Aimee
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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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Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2018 The article is devoted to the study of the linguistic representation of the idealized cognitive model KIDNAPPING in the corpus of American newspaper texts and the modeling of the scenario ICM on the basis of the obtained data. To study the lexical units
Irina N. Bolushevskaya
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The Coming Federalism Battle in the War over the Death Penalty [PDF]
, 2017 From the founding of the Republic until 2002, it appears that only a single person was ever sentenced to death by the federal government for criminal conduct occurring in a state that did not authorize the death penalty for the same conduct.
Zydney Mannheimer, Michael J.
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