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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 A remarkable early sea-ice reduction event was observed in the northern Bering Sea during 2018. In turn, this unusual hydrographic phenomenon affected several marine trophic levels, resulting in delayed phytoplankton blooms, phytoplankton community ...
Fumihiko Kimura +5 more
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Neither Hero nor Villain: The Determinants of Confidence in the UPP Police [PDF]
Dados: Revista de Ciências SociaisIn this article we analyze the determinants of confidence in the Police Pacification Units ( Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora – UPPs). During their existence (2008-2018), “pacification” was represented by the media as an institutional hybrid which moved ...
Ludmila Mendonça Lopes Ribeiro +1 more
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Conserver, pacifier, coloniser : la création de l’armée brésilienne au XIXe siècle
IdeAs, 2022 The dominant narrative on civil-military relations in mid-19th century Brazil is based on the idea that civil elites were hostile to the military, which would have resulted in the control of the Army and its weakening in state affairs.
Adriana Barreto de Souza
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From ‘pacification’ to ‘licence-to-kill’: Favela residents’ experience with the UPP from 2011-2018
Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2021 This article draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork to explore residents’ everyday experiences of urban militarisation in a ‘pacified’ favela in Brazil.
Åsne Håndlykken-Luz
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The Pacific Solution – A Catastrophe for the Pacific!? [PDF]
Environment and Ecology Research, 2015 Climate change and related sea-level rise has caused fears that many people in the Pacific Islands might become homeless. However it is difficult to say who is more afraid: politicians of countries that are potential destinations of environmental refugees or affected people, who realize that it is not at all a pleasure to lose the home, and that it ...
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Quand la favela devient ‘comunidade’ : nomination et contrôle social
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2016 Today in Brazil the norm is no longer to talk about favela but about comunidade (community), to the point that, if the two terms are still mutually and significantly substitutable, one can venture to predict that, in a near future, favela will appear ...
Patrick Dahlet
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Confins, 2016 This paper focuses on rumors that have been circulating in the favelas of Santa Marta and City of God since November 2008, when police occupied these favelas where were launched later the two first Pacifying Police Units in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In
Palloma Valle Menezes
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Gendering Pacification: Policing Women at Anti-fracking Protests
Feminist Review, 2019 This article seeks to consider the policing of anti-fracking protests at Barton Moss, Salford, from November 2013 to April 2014. We argue that women at Barton Moss were considered by the police to be transgressing the socio-geographical boundaries that ...
Helen Monk, J. Gilmore, W. Jackson
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DO WE LIVE IN AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED PEACE?
Obrana a Strategie, 2020 The article sums up the main ideas of Steven Pinker’s book The Better Angels of our Nature, and introduces main currents of its criticism. The currents are categorized; thereafter the strength of Pinker’s opponents’ arguments is evaluated.
Vladimír Bízik, Zdeněk Kříž
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Pacification or Aggravation? The Effects of Talking about Supervisor Unfairness
Academy of Management Journal, 2017 Many employees feel a general sense of unfairness toward their supervisors. A common reaction to such unfairness is to talk about it with coworkers. The conventional wisdom is that this unfairness talk should be beneficial to the aggrieved employees ...
Michael D. Baer +6 more
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