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The arterial border: negotiating economies of risk and violence in Mexico's security regime [PDF]

, 2017
This article examines the material and ideological dimensions of what I conceptualise as Mexico's 'arterial border'. Since the late 1980s, transit routes in Mexico's interior have increasingly become sites of a diffused migration enforcement strategy ...
Vogt, Wendy
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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

Journal 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
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Motivation of Volunteers during Great Patriotic War (Case Study of Rostov Region)

Научный диалог
This article explores the motivations behind citizens joining volunteer formations during the Great Patriotic War. The study relies on archival and published sources on the history of volunteer movements in the Rostov region.
O. A. Eldinov
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Le jeu d’évasion comme outil de médiation scientifique : enjeux méthodologiques, éthiques et pragmatiques d’une vulgarisation scientifique

Sciences du Jeu
This article analyzes the design and implementation of an escape game as a scientific mediation tool for sharing the results of an ethnographic study conducted within French military units with field workers.
Léa Ruelle, Pierre-François
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Anthropology and the 'War on Terror'. Analysis of a complex relationship

Perifèria: Revista de Recerca i Formació en Antropologia, 2008
ResumenLos acontecimientos del 11 de septiembre de 2001 y la obsesión de las agencias de inteligencia occidental de contrarrestar el islamismo radical ha puesto una vez más a la antropología en primera línea.
Addaia Marrades Rodriguez
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Ethnographic Research in the U.S. Intelligence Community: Opportunities and Challenges [PDF]

, 2018
This article considers lessons learned from conducting research inside the intelligence community. Drawing on a year of ethnographic field work and interviews at the National Counterterrorism Center, I show that “boundary personnel”- people who navigate ...
Nolan, Bridget
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

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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Access to justice: the Palestinian legal system and the fragmentation of coercive power [PDF]

, 2004
In recent years there has been an increased interest amongst development practitioners in the potential role of law in situations of violent conflict. The Middle East has increasingly become the focus of this concern.
Kelly, Tobias
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