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Degrees of permeability: confinement, power and resistance in Freetown's Central Prison

, 2020
This article deconstructs a binary that has arisen between prisons as, on the one hand, ‘total institutions’ of exclusion and, on the other, ‘carceral continuums’ that incorporate marginalized urban livelihoods. The experiences of four inmates at Pademba
Schneider, L.
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Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India Through the Ages

Space and Culture, India, 2023
Northeast India, home to diverse ethnic communities, has often been described as the cauldron of ethnic violence and insurgencies. The ongoing crisis in Manipur (in the form of a fratricidal war between the Meiteis and Kukis) and the State’s failure to ...
Debajyoti Biswas
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A violence which must be named (Critique in times of coronavirus) [PDF]

, 2020
Across the UK two narratives currently dominate and frame much of the critique of the British government’s current response to the Coronavirus ...
Kochi, Tarik
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Toxic space and time : slow violence, necropolitics, and petrochemical pollution [PDF]

, 2018
This article explores how time interacts forcefully with the experience of living within toxic spaces. Through ethnographic research and interviews with residents of a contaminated town in Louisiana, the article unpacks the uncertain temporalities of ...
Davies, Thom
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Forced labor in accounting during World War II. The case of the company SS Ostindustrie GmbH [PDF]

Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to examine the representation of forced labor in the accounting system and to analyze, interpret, and evaluate the accounting regulations of the company Osti (SS Ostindustrie GmbH).Methodology/approach: The historical ...
Mikołaj Turzyński, Adam Kędrzyński
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Death on the Aegean Borderland

Mashriq & Mahjar, 2021
In this article, I seek to change our understanding of necropolitics with regard to how host states and refugees themselves deal with their dead. Through technocratic practices for the former, and biophysical violence for the latter, I provide a reading ...
Mija Sanders
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Rockhounding, Seafaring, and Other Material Tales for the End of the World [PDF]

, 2020
In the face of accelerated environmental degradation and climate instability, the future of the Earth and of all life on earth is difficult to visualize.
Fortin, Noemie
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Necropolitics and Neo-Orientalism: Theory and Practice

Arab Studies Quarterly
In the theory of necropolitics, we read how a nation, or a group of people, uses power, both military or political, to dictate how certain people in a region can live and how some must die.
Mubarak Altawaiji, Faiz Algobaei, Muna Telha   +2 more
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Law, necropolitics and the stop and search of young people [PDF]

, 2018
Stop and search can harm young people, damage relations between police and the community and alienate ethnic and racial minorities. In Mohidin and another v Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis and others, a group of minors who had been stopped ...
Agamben G, Bear D, Cafe R, Demuth C, Eastwood N, Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Foucault M, Foucault M, Foucault M, Fryer P, Gilroy P, Hackworth J, Harcourt B, Howe D, Lemert E, Lewis P, Lipman P, Macpherson W, May T, Murray K, Murray K, Rose N, Scraton P, Simon Flacks, Stoler AL, Valverde M   +25 more
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A Review of Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa by Jacob Dlamini (Polity Press, 2024).

The Thinker
Dlamini’s latest book delivers an incisive review of necropolitics in the history of South Africa’s political life. According to Achille Mbembe (Necropolitics 2019), necropolitics is the use of both political and social power to dictate how one must ...
Taurayi Munemo
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