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SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
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Yurisdiksi: Jurnal Wacana Hukum dan SainsLand mafia is still a serious threat in Indonesia, including in Pamekasan Regency, where the need for land is increasing rapidly. This study aims to examine the role of the National Land Agency (BPN) in resolving dual certificate disputes which are often
Rokhman, Iwan Permadi, Supriyadi
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Mafia Organizations: The Visible Hand of Criminal Enterprise
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 The author, Maurizio Catino, has undertaken a meticulous examination of criminal organizations that dominate the illicit marketplace throughout the world.
Frederick T. Martens
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Revealing “Mafia Inc.”? Financial Crisis, Organized Crime, and the Birth of New Enterprises
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020 We study the investment of organized crime in the legal economy. By using the shock induced on the Italian credit market by the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis, we document how provinces with a high organized crime presence have been impacted less by the ...
Marco Le Moglie, G. Sorrenti
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Indonesia's palm oil industry, the world's largest supplier, faces significant scrutiny because of its severe environmental and social impacts. The expansion of Chinese companies in this sector has raised concerns about exacerbating existing problems. This study examines the case of Jade (pseudonym), a Chinese‐owned palm oil company, to assess
Xiao Tan +3 more
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Escenarios actuales del crimen organizado: factores contextuales y perspectivas teóricas
Foro Internacional, 2023 La grave crisis de inseguridad y derechos humanos del México contemporáneo exige a la academia un análisis profundo del fenómeno del crimen organizado, informado por experiencias internacionales y sensible a su naturaleza dual en tanto fenómeno con ...
Annaclara De Tuglie
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Well‐Being, Pain and the Mere‐Difference View of Disability
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I shall initially be discussing the term ‘disability’ in accordance with common‐sense intuition. The term itself is contested. But importantly for our discussion, on the mere‐difference view, Barnes attempts to philosophically define disability in conformity with what we ordinarily perceive to be disability day to day, and she does so by ...
James Forsdyke
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Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2023 Lo scritto delinea il contesto storico in cui prese forma la legge regionale siciliana n. 51/80, che per la prima volte introdusse nelle scuole programmi di studio incentrati sulla mafia. A una rico-struzione delle ragioni che portarono all’omicidio del
Ciro Dovizio, Valeria Biasco
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Policy and Society, 1992 (1992). Mafia and Trust. Policy, Organisation and Society: Vol. 5, Special Trust Issue, pp. 64-73.
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