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Social movements and the synecdoche problem
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Social movements are central to our contemporary understanding of social change. Accordingly, we should want to be able to say what it is that makes social movements special; that is, to say what it is that movements in their entirety have that random samples of people and organizations within the movement do not have.
Megan Hyska
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Studies 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
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Vernacular dominance in folk taxonomy: a case study of ethnospecies in medicinal plant trade in Tanzania [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Medicinal plants are traded as products with vernacular names, but these folk taxonomies do not always correspond one-to-one with scientific plant names.
Hugo J de Boer +5 more
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Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 22-39, January 2026.ABSTRACT Colonial monolingual norms are a present oppressive force within schooling spaces, with a direct assimilative target on the linguistic practices of historically marginalized peoples, histories, and knowledge systems. For racially minoritized multilingual refugee learners, the space of in‐school science learning can be experienced as an ...
Sophia Thraya +2 more
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Syrian refugees and cultural intimacy in Istanbul : "I feel safe here!" [PDF]
, 2016 This paper derives from the findings of a recent qualitative and quantitative study conducted by the Support to Life Association among Syrian refugees in Istanbul to make their vulnerability assessment with a particular focus on their strong attachment ...
KAYA, Ayhan
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Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey
Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT How are we to understand the continuing importance of small‐scale village farming in a country like Turkey, which is undergoing an expanding process of industrialization and commodification in agriculture? There are two sides to this question: One concerns land use reconfiguration for commercial purposes, contraction of small‐scale farmland ...
Yıldız Atasoy
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\uabAlcune considerazioni sulle origini dei Yazidi o Yezidi\ubb [PDF]
, 2015 Questo saggio \ue8 dedicato ai Yazidi, una delle minoranze stanziate nel 'Ir\u101q settentrionale, Siria, Turchia meridionale e Caucaso, parlanti prevalentemente \uabKurmanji\ubb, un dialetto curdo settentrionale, e atrocemente perseguitate perch\ue9 ...
Conte, R.
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From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States
Middle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 3-17, Winter 2025.Abstract A new approach to rebuilding collapsed states is being trialed in the Arab world, most conspicuously by the Trump administration but with broad international support. This replaces the previous model—favoring democratic building blocks like inclusion, compromise, reconciliation, accountability, and citizenship—which is now seen as too costly ...
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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Climate Change and the Stability of Water Allocation Agreements [PDF]
, 2007 We analyse agreements on river water allocation between riparian countries. Besides being efficient, water allocation agreements need to be stable in order to be effective in increasing the efficiency of water use.
Ansink, E.J.H., Ruijs, A.J.W.
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