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Hail to the thief: spectral egalitarianism in the Moroccan High Atlas Songez au voleur ! les spectres de l’égalitarisme dans le Haut‐Atlas marocain

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 104-120, March 2026.
This essay examines the spectres haunting ideas of egalitarianism among Tashelhiyt‐speaking communities in the Moroccan High Atlas: first, the tyrant, an obvious frontal threat to ideas of equality; and then the vastly more complex figure of the thief (amkhar).
Matthew Carey
wiley   +1 more source

Visual Satire Under German Censorship: The Card Game Pharo in Johann Heinrich Ramberg's Illustrations and in Contemporary Descriptions

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 59-83, March 2026.
Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the contract‐failure theory

open access: yesAmerican Business Law Journal, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 5-31, Spring 2026.
Abstract The contract‐failure theory posits that the nonprofit form can be an indicator of high product quality because the nondistribution constraint reduces the nonprofit manager's financial benefits from cheating. This would give nonprofits an advantage over for‐profit firms when consumers cannot determine product quality and thus explains ...
Yumiao Wang
wiley   +1 more source

How did Japan catch‐up with the West? Some implications of recent revisions to Japan's historical growth record

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 66, Issue 1, Page 3-32, March 2026.
Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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