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Landless peasants, soilless cultivation: British agricultural experimentation and intervention in post‐independence Iraq (1932–1958)

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
‘Greening’ is often depicted as an inherently benevolent practice, turning arid stretches of land into arable and fertile plots. However, by considering a longer history of place and taking archival records into account, such transformations are rendered more complex and, often, more fraught.
Zsuzsanna Ihar
wiley   +1 more source

With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 81-87, Spring 2025.
ABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Sean Connable
wiley   +1 more source

Prosecuting Alleged Terrorists by Military Commission: A Prudent Option [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
President Obama has announced that the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay will be closed by January 22, 2010. He has also said that at least some of the detainees facing criminal prosecution will be tried in military commissions. The system of military
Erik Lundberg, Martin Karlsson
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Courts-Martial Jurisdiction and Civilian Dependents: Constitutional Restrictions [PDF]

open access: yes, 1958
Services are intangible in their nature. When product oriented companies seeks to expand their industrial offerings with services they encounter many problems, one of which is the challenge of selling these intangible services. The sales team needs to be
Hilborn, Jonathan, Westergren, Jonatan
core   +1 more source

A Family Affair: The Uses and Abuses of Vicarious Identity in Political Rhetoric During the 2024 General Election

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
wiley   +1 more source

Be All You Can Be (Without the Protection of the Constitution) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
[Excerpt] “Despite the generous inclusion by President Reagan of the many soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines in the concept of the people of this republic, it is not altogether dear whether one whose status has changed from ordinary citizen to a
Harrison, Keith M.
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How long can the term of office of the Polish parliament last? A legal-constitutional analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The main research aim of this article is an analysis of the length of the parliamentary term of office in Poland based on the analysis of legal rules. According to the art. 98 para.
Litwin, Tomasz
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
wiley   +1 more source

Time of war and martial law, relations, mutual dependencies and legal, organisational and functional dillema

open access: yesDefence Science Review, 2022
Objectives: The aim of the article was to solve the research problem included in the question: Can we adopt specifically defined procedures that define imposing of "martial law", "state of war" and "time of war"?
Ewa Żaboklicka , Daniel Stankowski
doaj   +1 more source

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