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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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SEGURANÇA PÚBLICA, MÍDIA E NEOCONSERVADORISMO: a naturalização da barbarização das relações sociais
Revista de Políticas Públicas, 2019 This article discusses the complexity of the barbarism of social relations in Brazil. Through the federal intervention in Rio de Janeiro in 2018, we indicate the centrality of the public safety policy, the media approach and the reorganization of the ...
Silene de Moraes Freire +2 more
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Explosive Ordnance Clearance in Lithuania in 1944–1946
Lietuvos Istorijos StudijosThis article investigates the process of mine clearance in Lithuania between 1944 and 1946, conducted through the Soviet paramilitary organization OSOAVIACHIM.
Paulius Japertas
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Different Frontier, Same Legal Script? On the Course of Replicating Earth's Patterns in Space
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.As states and private actors expand their activities in outer space, the international legal framework governing this domain risks extending longstanding structures of global inequality beyond Earth. This article examines how international space law, shaped by a broader disciplinary pattern of reactive legal development, is poised to reproduce ...
Sivan Shlomo‐Agon, Michal Saliternik
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History, 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
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Working‐Class Muscles? Co‐Operative Gyms in Interwar Britain
History, EarlyView.Abstract The Health & Strength League's network of co‐operative gymnasiums constituted one of interwar Britain's most significant yet overlooked physical culture institutions, affiliating over 800 gyms across Britain and Ireland by 1939. Drawing on Health & Strength magazine's editorial content and reader contributions, this article argues that these ...
CONOR HEFFERNAN
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From Racial Democracy to Credit Democracy: Finance and Public Security in Brazil
Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2016 My aim in this article is to provide a first pass at thinking the social effects of this credit expansion which I do via credit as a form of public security.
Brian Whitener
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Framings of Intervention in Spain: From the Civil War to the Franco Dictatorship
History, EarlyView.Abstract Despite the role of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War, the word intervención rarely appeared in contemporary media and official discourse. This article examines the expressions that Republican and rebel authorities used to represent the presence of outside forces in Spain.
Marta Costa Costa
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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