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Agrarian change through speculation: Rural elites as land brokers for mining in Colombia

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 23, Issue 4, Page 706-728, October 2023., 2023
Abstract This paper studies the connections between the expansion of mining capital, speculative forms of land grabbing and agrarian transformation. It is argued that in periods of commodity boom, the landowning rural elite benefits from mining through speculative land deals with mining companies.
Kristina Dietz
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Law, language, and the power of ‘invisible threats’ of violence against women

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 50, Issue 3, Page 392-413, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Violence, and the threat of violence, is a pervasive feature of women's lives. From high‐profile threats in politics to everyday harms such as domestic abuse, violence, threat, and intimidation control women's behaviour and silence their voices. Yet in many cases the pernicious and harmful effect of threat is not captured by the law.
CATHERINE TURNER, AISLING SWAINE
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Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings

American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 333-344, June 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines the temporality of dispensationalist imaginings of the apocalypse, with a particular focus on why such imaginings often have an acutely violent character. For the Brethren and for Jehovah's Witnesses, the most convincing signs of the imminent apocalypse are violent ones.
Joseph Webster
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Policing and Autocratisation in Bolivarian Venezuela

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 159-174, January 2022., 2022
This article aims to identify and analyse the mechanisms and manifestations through which the Venezuelan police have undergone a gradual and incremental counter‐reform in the scope of the autocratisation process of the political regime from Chávez to Maduro.
Stiven Tremaria
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Reintegración sin desmovilización: el caso de las milicias populares de Medellín

Colombia Internacional, 2013
Narratives on peace processes in Colombia do not often include the 1994 negotiations with the so-called "popular militia" in Medellín. This article analyzes the development and results of this process, revises the explanations of its failure which were ...
Jorge Giraldo Ramírez, Juan Pablo Mesa Mejía   +1 more
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The agrarian question and violence in Colombia: conflict and development [PDF]

, 2011
This article examines connections between Colombia’s internal armed conflict and agrarian questions. It pays attention to the country’s specific historical trajectory of agrarian change, the violent expression of social tensions that this elicited, and ...
Akram-Lodhi, Akram-Lodhi, Akram-Lodhi, Angrist, Araghi, Ballentine, Benítez Vargas, Bernstein, Bernstein, Bernstein, Borras, Brittain, Byres, Clemis, Codhes, Codhes, Cramer, Cramer, Cubides, De Janvry, Deininger, Dix, Fajardo, FAO, Felstehausen, Galli, Gutiérrez Sanín, Gutiérrez Sanín, Gutiérrez Sanín, Hegre, Henderson, Hirschman, International Crisis Group, International Crisis Group, Jaramillo, Kaldor, Kalyvas, Kay, Livingstone, Marx, Maxwell, McMichael, McMichael, McMichael, Mondragón, Restrepo, Reyes Posada, Richani, Richani, Ross, Stokes, Stokes, Sánchez, Sánchez, Wood, Zamosc   +55 more
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Sąjungininkai ir (ar) priešai: tautinių mažumų įvaizdžiai Lietuvos šaulių sąjungos, Latvijos Aizsargi ir Estijos Kaitseliit ideologijose | Allies and/or Foes: The Image of Ethnic Minorities in the Ideologies of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union…

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2014
This paper deals with concepts of images of ethnic minorities in the ideologies of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union, the Latvian Aizsargi, and the Estonian Kaitseliit, with the aim of identifying factors that predetermined qualitative changes in these ...
Hektoras Vitkus
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Paramilitarism without Paramilitaries: 'Tres Caínes' and the Representation of Paramilitarism on Colombian TV Screens [PDF]

New Readings, 2020
The goal of this article is to analyse the representation of the Colombian armed conflict in the controversial TV series Tres Caínes (2013), which dramatizes the history of paramilitarism in Colombia through a biographical story of the lives of the three brothers Castaño Gil, the leaders and founders of Colombia’s biggest paramilitary group, the ...
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Lietuvos šaulių sąjungos ryšiai su išeivija JAV: Antano Žmuidzinavičiaus atvejis | Relations between the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union and the Lithuanian Diaspora in the USA: The Case of Antanas Žmuidzinavičius

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2014
The paper analyses the relations between the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union (LRU) and the diaspora in the USA, established at the very beginning of the LRU’s activity.
Mindaugas Nefas
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Lenkijos šaulių sąjungos struktūra 1919–1939 metais | The Organisational Structure of the Polish Riflemen’s Union (1919–1939)

Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2014
The Riflemen’s Union (Związek Strzelecki) was a paramilitary organisation in the Second Polish Republic which oversaw the military training of young pre-military age people. Simultaneously, it was a civic education movement.
Waldemar Rezmer
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