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Why Evidence Is Not Enough: Power, Politics, and a Strategy Shift for Public Health. [PDF]
Milbank QPolicy Points Public health has lost political influence because of a mismatch between the forms of power primarily deployed in this field—knowledge and moral authority—and the forms of power that currently shape societal rules and health outcomes—economic, political, ideological, and physical.
Heller JC.
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The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers. [PDF]
Milbank QPolicy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
Ray R, Gilbert K.
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Relaciones Internacionales, 2022 This article’s objective is to place the modern history of Iran in relation to nonviolent struggles within the optic of the role of women within them, and to link these episodes with the feminist struggle in Iran.
Sheida Besozzi
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Research & Politics, 2020 There is growing consensus that large oil and gas revenues in autocracies have multiple pernicious effects, from decreasing democratization to increasing armed conflict: the so-called “resource curse.” Yet we know little about the effects of oil and gas ...
Jonathan Pinckney
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Comparing Gandhi’s Concept of Satyagraha with that of Jihad in Islam [PDF]
Journal of World Sociopolitical Studies, 2021 This paper compares Islamic teachings regarding Jihad with Gandhi’s Satyagraha or non-violent resistance. Abdul Ghaffar Khan, one of Gandhi’s Muslim followers, has argued that not only was Islam compatible with non-violent methods, but that Prophet ...
Fatemeh Mohammadi
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Constructive work and reclaiming the commons as decolonizing nonviolent resistance
Relaciones Internacionales, 2018 Scholars of nonviolent resistance, in particular, almost exclusively focus on oppositional action against oppressive forces. They pay much less attention to positive dimensions of resistance that allow practitioners to create alternative social ...
Sean CHABOT
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Did Nonviolent Resistance Fail in Kosovo? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 A standard narrative is that nonviolence failed in Kosovo: the Milosevic regime was ended by a NATO bombing campaign. This essay exposes errors in this narrative. Nonviolent resistance inside Kosovo succeeded in unifying the Kosovar masses against the Milosevic regime. That solidarity was crucial to victory.
Marsavelski, Aleksandar +2 more
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Northwest Journal of Teacher Education, 2022 Of Back Stories, Byways & Entangled Aesthetics of Epistemology: Teaching Art, Poetic Protest and Curricular Alterity in a Time of Ethicide engages autobiographical analysis to illumine and offer examples of what art and poetry may offer as forms of ...
Molly Quinn
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Was Faust a member of ′Otpor′? On subjectivistic objectivism and objectivistic subjectivism in the interpretation of (post)modern social and political movements [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2007 The paper represents an attempt to channel polemical exchanges concerning the process of democratization in Serbia into the frames of scientific dialogue which is considered here to be a more productive genre of scientific communication than are polemics.
Naumović Slobodan
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Activists Against Autocrats: TSMO Networks and Democratic Diffusion
Frontiers in Political Science, 2021 Do transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) promote the international diffusion of democracy? If so, how? Scholars of democratization have studied a plethora of international factors in the spread of democracy, including geographic or regional
Jonathan Pinckney, John Joseph Chin
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