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‘Failed States’ in Question and the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa
L'Espace Politique, 2017 While the idea of the failed state can be easily contested as a Western conceit, understanding the symptoms typically claimed as indicating the condition is an important part of addressing it.
Kevin R. Cox
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Catalonia, 2020 Ernesto Giménez Caballero’s book, Amor a Portugal, traces Franco’s State visit in October 1949. The author recycles the thesis of the Portuguese traditionalist thinkers Oliveira Martins and Sardinha, which consists in defending the Luso-Spanish model of ...
Manuelle Peloille
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The Thinker, 2022 Intellectuals are the threads that hold societies together. They form the basis upon which the making and unmaking of the future of societies are built.
Temitope Fagunwa
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Scientia Militaria, 2012 Apart from the fact that the assistance of the SADF is necessary in many fields in SWA, such as public services and the medical and agricultural fields, it's presence also serves another very important purpose.
Editorial Team Militaria
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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
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Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores the emergence and role of rural capitalists in colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa by comparing three peasant‐based economies: Bechuanaland, the Gold Coast and Tanganyika. Using social tables, we estimate the population and income shares of better earning agricultural producers and assess their impact on rural inequality and ...
Prince Young Aboagye +2 more
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Neo-Agro-Colonialism, Control over Life, and Imposed Spatio-Temporalities
Contexto InternacionalThe control over what Dillon and Lobo-Guerrero (2008) conceptualise as ‘pluripotent’ life has become an essential factor of capitalist agriculture; this occurs through the regulation of strategic genetic resources.
Matheus Hoffmann Pfrimer +1 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2007 Critical disability studies has examined the intersections between gender and disability. Meanwhile, feminist analyses of the intersection between race, class and gender identities have developed important insights, but failed to include dimensions of ...
Helen Meekosha
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Critical Management Studies: From One‐Dimensional Critique to Three‐Dimensional Scepticism
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Critical Management Studies (CMS) has largely relied on one‐dimensional critique which focus on the negation of a dominant social order. This strong focus has made the field increasingly stale and preoccupied with standard objects for critique.
Mats Alvesson, André Spicer
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Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano +3 more
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