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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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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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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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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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Historia del paramilitarismo en Colombia History of the paramilitarismo in Colombia
História, 2007 En Colombia, desde la década de los años ochenta del siglo XX tomó fuerza el paramilitarismo como estrategia contrainsurgente, política que no ha sido reconocida como tal por parte de los distintos gobiernos y se expresa como terrorismo de Estado ...
Edgar de Jesús Velásquez Rivera
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Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis, 2014 This article discusses the process of the integration of the Lithuanian Riflemen’s Union (LRU) into the state’s defence system in the 1920s and 1930s.
Jonas Vaičenonis
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