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Evaluating Youth Participatory Action Research in the Americas: Comparative Insights on Empowerment, Methodologies, and Social Change. [PDF]
J AdolescABSTRACT Introduction Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) positions adolescents as co‐researchers to investigate and address social issues affecting their lives. While YPAR has gained global prominence, comparative research examining how it is conceptualized and practiced across regional contexts remains limited.
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Diaspora boundaries and racial democracy: Nationalist discourses on Judaism and Zionism in Brazil
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 1304-1320, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines how Brazilian nationalist elites perceived Jews, Judaism and Zionism during the military dictatorship period (1964–1985). Although an explicit antisemitic discourse was socially unacceptable in Brazil, many nationalist officials and intellectuals who discussed Jewish and Zionist Brazilians among themselves during those ...
Jonathan Grossman
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 1125-1141, July 2023., 2023 Abstract East Timorese nationalism experienced a unique generational transition during Indonesia's occupation hinging onto internationalism in the changing world. In contrast to the existing literature on nationalism, which is overwhelmingly focused on earlier construction of nationalism and post‐independence nation building, this article offers a ...
Takahiro Kamisuna
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Civil war and the non‐linearity of time: approaching a Mozambican politics of irreconciliation
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue S1, Page 50-64, April 2022., 2022 Abstract At least 1 million people died during the Mozambican civil war (1976/7‐92). Unfolding after gaining independence from Portugal (1975) and alongside experiments with Afro‐socialism in the 1980s, the war, despite its brutality, has not been subjected to global templates of reconciliation processes.
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
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Fear and fainting in Luanda: paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 222-239, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This article unpacks the events and reactions surrounding a mysterious ‘fainting wave’ that swept through Angolan middle and high schools from early 2011 on. By attending to the historicity and materiality of the fainting wave, the article investigates why the strong conviction took root of a dark political intentionality behind this ...
Jon Schubert
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Beyond Reintegration: War Veteranship in Mozambique and El Salvador
Development and Change, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 424-447, March 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This article proposes the concept of ‘war veteranship’ to better understand war veterans’ positioning in and engagement with post‐war societies and state‐building processes. The study is based on ethnographic research with former insurgent movements, specifically the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) in Mozambique and the Farabundo Martí
Nikkie Wiegink, Ralph Sprenkels
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Museum Anthropology, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 57-71, Spring 2022., 2022 abstract Nwadjahane, a small village in southern Mozambique, is set apart from other settlements as the birthplace of Eduardo Mondlane, one of the nation's founding fathers. Declared a national heritage site and made into an open‐air museum, Nwadjahane has become a landscape where national and local memories are negotiated.
M. Dores Cruz
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Timor‐Leste economic survey: The end of petroleum income
Asia &the Pacific Policy Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 253-279, May 2021., 2021 Abstract As Timor‐Leste nears the end of its petroleum‐exporting era, the transition to a sustainable economy has become even more challenging due to partisan political competition, disastrous flooding and the pandemic. This article describes the current economic context, and deteriorating trends. After a brief discussion of the political situation and
Charles Scheiner
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A lesser human? Utopian registers of urban reconfiguration in Maputo, Mozambique
Social Anthropology, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 87-107, February 2021., 2021 In the age of climate change, human life’s pliability is also re‐shaping anthropological debates. For debates centring on the urban domain, questions revolve around flexibility, adaptability and resilience, while in work drawing on the Anthropocene similar ideas of human beings as subsumable to Gaia are emerging.
Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
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Journal of Law and Society, Volume 47, Issue S1, Page S54-S73, October 2020., 2020 Abstract The negative and corrosive impacts of corruption in the fields of economics, politics, and law are widely discussed. Less understood are the potentially negative impacts of anti‐corruption struggles and strategies themselves. This article presents a case study of Brazil's ‘Car Wash’ (‘Lava Jato’) scandal from a legal and political perspective.
GEORGE MÉSZÁROS
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