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Armed-conflict, extractivism, and environmental degradation: remote sensing and discourse analysis from Kurdish territories

Environmental Research Letters
Environmental destruction and extractivism are increasingly central to contemporary armed conflicts. Yet scholarship has paid limited attention to how these processes reshape landscapes over time and become embedded within strategies of war, governance ...
Pinar Dinc, Purnendu Sardar, Milena Ayvazyan   +2 more
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Rethinking Societal Resilience as Deterrence: A Feminist Perspective on NATO and Ukraine's Experience

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent shifts in European security have placed resilience at the center of deterrence and defense strategies. While resilience has traditionally been understood as the ability to withstand disruption and sustain military operations, there have been calls for a whole‐of‐society approach that strengthens societies against hybrid threats and ...
Jan Daniel, Míla O'Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Democracies often struggle to contain police violence, which undermines the rule of law and reproduces inequality by targeting marginalized citizens. Yet, scholars have shown that repressive policing enjoys considerable public support. Focusing on Brazil, we demonstrate that attitudes toward police violence mirror polarization between left ...
Yanilda María González, Natán Skigin
wiley   +1 more source

Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers an ethnographic analysis of Gulf Arab empire‐making in central Sudan, focusing on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition. Through three overlapping vantage points—farm, port, and body—it explores how Emirati investments in Sudanese land, infrastructure, and ...
Nisrin Elamin
wiley   +1 more source

Research Ethics in Conflict Zones: Reflections on ‘Do no Harm’ Ethics for the Research Network

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What does it mean to ‘do no harm’ in academic research? ‘Do no harm’ ethics emphasizes the responsibility of researchers to mitigate the emotional, physical, and political harms that may arise through participation in research. These concerns are heightened in conflict zones, where access constraints and intersecting vulnerabilities shape the ...
K. B. Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Udgetary trends in the area of security in Mexico, 2006-2010. Toward the militarization of the public expenditure?

, 2015
En el presente ensayo se desarrolla un análisis sobre la tendencia presupuestaria que han tenido las instituciones militares y de seguridad pública en México, para determinar si debido a la guerra contra el narcotráfico emprendida por el presidente Felipe Calderón, los presupuestos federales han seguido una tendencia hacia la militarización.
openaire   +1 more source

The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul, Cecilie Friis, Thilde Bech Bruun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Summary of Research 1995, Department of National Security Affairs [PDF]

, 1995
The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.This report contains summaries of research projects in the Department of National Security
Faculty of the Department of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
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Late Iron Age and Early Roman Brooches From the Lower Rhine Area: Provenance of the Metal Supply Traced Through Lead Isotopes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geochemical analysis of five brooch types from the Lower Rhine area dated to the last century bc and first century ad is used to constrain resource use, exchange and mobility. Lead isotope ratios demonstrate an Iberian provenance for copper in bronze Late Iron Age brooches.
A. A. T. Ruiter, B. J. H. van Os, J. B. V. Hermsen, G. R. Davies, S. W. Merkel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Through Criminal Selectivity and Lawfare: Non‐Democratic Politics to Entrench Authoritarian Populist Imagination

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across much of the Global South and increasingly in the Global North, authoritarian populist imagination blurs boundaries between legality and illegality, weaponising law to suppress dissent while tolerating violence by allied actors. This imagination establishes a symbolic boundary mechanism between punitive/eliminative violence for political
Erman Örsan Yetiş
wiley   +1 more source