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Illegal Gold Mining in the Brazilian Amazon: Environmental Degradation in Yanomami Indigenous Lands, and Regulatory Failures

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Illegal gold mining has emerged as a major sustainability threat in the Amazon, eroding Indigenous rights, forest integrity, and climate mitigation efforts. This study examines how international market incentives relate to the expansion of illegal mining and associated deforestation within the Yanomami Indigenous Territory (YIT) from 2008 to ...
Shirléia Lago Santos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“The Atlas of Our Skin and Bone and Blood”: Disability, Ablenationalism, and the War on Drugs

open access: yesGenealogy, 2019
This paper explores the relationship between disability and the aspirational health of the civic body through an analysis of the criminalization of immigration and the war on drugs.
Andrea Pitts
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

“Bread Earning Saturated With Humiliation”: “اللقمة من هناك مغمسة بالذل” Linguistic Citizenship as Acts of Love and Sumud Among Palestinian English Teachers at Jewish Israeli Schools

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how Palestinian English teachers (PETs) working at Jewish–Israeli schools navigate trauma in an educational space that both requires and negates them. Driven by labor market demands rather than efforts at educational integration, PETs operate under constant affective and political tension, forced to comply with colonial ...
Muzna Awayed‐Bishara
wiley   +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

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

The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

The securitization of the Peruvian-Chilean border and the criminalization of the migrant in the discourse of Sin Fronteras (Tacna, Peru)

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
This article analyzes the journalistic discourse of the Tacna-based newspaper Sin Fronteras during the migration situation on the Peruvian-Chilean border between February and May 2023.
Ilda Nadia Monica De La Asuncion Pari-Bedoya
doaj   +1 more source

Narcotráfico e militarização nas Américas: vício de guerra Drug-trafficking and militarization in the Americas: the addiction to war

open access: yesContexto Internacional, 2012
Nas primeiras décadas do século XX, foi construído um regime legal internacional voltado ao controle de drogas consideradas perigosas tanto à saúde individual e pública, quanto à ordem moral e social.
Thiago Rodrigues
doaj   +1 more source

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