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Jiu-jitsu in the Context of Armed Conflict: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance

Ciudad Paz-ando, 2016
This article explains how, through civil resistance, the community of Samaniego made the abuses of the armed actors in their territory backfire, a phenomenon described as “jiu-jitsu”.
María Belén Garrido, Cécile Mouly, Annette Idler   +2 more
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From Colonial Natures to Entangled Ecologies: Making Due and Relational Geographies of Indigenous Resurgence in the Chaco

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract This paper offers an alternative reading of decolonial geographies by examining how people make due in the context of colonial natures. Drawing on collaborative ethnographic research, we illustrate how everyday acts of reclaiming ancestral lands serve as practices of resistance that foment Enxet and Sanapaná resurgence in Paraguay's Chaco.
Joel E. Correia, Clemente Dermott
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Violencia en el crecimiento y el desarrollo de los niños

Revista MERCOSUR de Políticas Sociales, 2019
El objetivo del presente trabajo es identificar si los niños que viven en hogares donde se ejerce violencia contra las mujeres presentan mayor riesgo de padecer retraso en el crecimiento y alteraciones en el desarrollo al finalizar la intervención del ...
Cynthia Dinora Gómez Alfonso
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Phantom Limbs: Affect, Haptics and ‘Partes De Mucha Gente’ in Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra Parte De Noche

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
In Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra parte de noche (Our Share of Night), the insistence on narrating putrid wounds and hewn limbs seeks to reinvigorate stagnant tropes, to highlight the corporeal cruelty obfuscated by the ghostly. This article explores the association between textures and emotions, specifically questioning what it can lead to when remains ...
Ana María Villaveces Galofre
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VIOLÊNCIA NO NORTE PIONEIRO DO ESTADO DO PARANÁ: HOMICÍDIOS E APREENSÃO DE DROGAS

Geopauta, 2019
A segurança pública se converteu em um tema no Brasil devido, principalmente, à violência. No campo acadêmico, é visível uma ampliação dos estudos acerca da violência.
Pedro Henrique Carnevalli Fernandes
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From ‘Dirty Boots’ to ‘Distant Friends’: How A Colombian Social Intermediary Integrates Communities through Entrepreneurship

Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 59-100, January 2026.
Abstract Through an abductive qualitative case study of a Colombian peacebuilding NGO, we explore how social intermediaries facilitate the integration of fragmented ex‐combatant and campesino communities. Our analysis reveals a three‐stage process by which the social intermediary simultaneously engages in enterprise‐focused and community‐focused ...
Andrea Caldwell Marquez, Emily Block, Kelly Rubey, Viva Ona Bartkus   +3 more
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Post‐liberalism and the politics of liberation: Brazilian favelas as emergent territories of freedom Postlibéralisme et politique de la libération : les favelas brésiliennes, territoires de liberté émergents

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1023-1040, December 2025.
Brazilian favelas (shantytowns) are often considered as marginalized urban territories that must be better integrated into the nation‐state to obtain legitimacy under the Rule of Law. Based on years of fieldwork in one of the largest shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro (Rocinha), this article suggests that the absence of a (normative) liberal apparatus in ...
Moises Lino e Silva
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Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 4, Page 746-756, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
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Fuerza Feminista: Confronting Intersectional Data Violence by Archiving the Movement Against Antifeminicides in the Paso del Norte Region

Sexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 8, Issue 4, November 2025.
ABSTRACT For over 30 years, the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua bordering Texas and New Mexico has experienced and witnessed multiple forms of violence across its rural and urban regions. Communities are besieged with cartel and gender‐based violence and the saturation of international corporations that pay less than livable wages for workers in ...
Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla, Cynthia Bejarano   +1 more
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Border Women Literature and Feminist Cartographies: Student Approaches to Dataset and Visualization Development for Gender‐Based Violence Documentation

Sexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 8, Issue 4, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Researching gender violence and transnational feminist movements fuels commitment to meaningful change. Drawing on Toni Morrison's 1998 call to refuse desensitization to violence, examining how three university students—Niloufar Esmaeili (PhD English), Jessica Corona (MA Spanish), and Jasbeth Medrano (Political Science undergraduate)—engaged ...
Niloufar Esmaeili, Jessica Corona, Jasbeth Medrano   +2 more
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