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CORPORATE FUTURES, ENERGY TRANSITION, AND NATURAL PROSTHETICS IN COLOMBIA'S CESAR MINING CORRIDOR
ABSTRACT This essay examines the socioecological transformations of mining and post‐mining landscapes in the mining corridor of the Cesar Department, northern Colombia. When an open pit mine is about to close or has recently closed, companies promote post‐mining strategies framed as ecosystem restoration and social compensation.
JUAN PABLO VERA LUGO
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Public Administration, Local and Regional Governance, and Domestic Terrorism
ABSTRACT This study examines how the nature of public administration and local and regional governance affects domestic terrorism in 73 mixed and democratic countries from multiple regions and levels of development. In conducting a cross‐national statistical analysis from 1991 to 2019 with standard political, economic, and social controls, and ...
Lance Y. Hunter +3 more
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High‐Profile Attacks, Regimes of Criminal Governance and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico
ABSTRACT This paper examines the influence of high‐profile attacks (HPAs) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexican municipalities. HPAs target political officials and signal attempts by organised criminal groups (OCGs) to dominate the local organisation of the communities under their influence.
J. Eduardo Ibarra‐Olivo +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper draws on findings from the first wave of a 3‐year qualitative longitudinal study focused on the lived experience of residents of the Market community in inner‐city Belfast who are facing challenges connected with disadvantage, inequality and the legacy of conflict.
Emma Loudon +4 more
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Abstract Political polarization on social media, particularly during electoral campaigns, has become a growing concern. This study aimed to assess levels of affective polarization in political communication, considering temporal orientation, delegitimizing beliefs, and intergroup emotions. Two studies were conducted: one during the Andalusian elections
Diana Camila Garzón‐Velandia +2 more
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‘He’s at the Crucial Age’: The Performance of Masculinity in Gary Mitchell’s Drama
Using this theoretical basis of gender performativity, this article will consider the shifting masculinities in two plays by Gary Mitchell, Trust (1999) and Love Matters (2012), both of which are set in the Protestant, urban, working-class neighbourhood
Megan Minogue
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Paramilitarism’s Long Twentieth Century [PDF]
How did paramilitarism develop into the modern age? The twentieth century has seen forms of paramilitarism ranging from the Freikorps in Germany early on in the century, to the Sudanese Janjaweed militias a century later, and a myriad of armed groups in between.
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Should history change the way we think about populism?
Abstract This paper asks whether history should change the way in which economists and economic historians think about populism. We use Müller's definition, according to which populism is ‘an exclusionary form of identity politics, which is why it poses a threat to democracy’. We make three historical arguments.
Alan de Bromhead +1 more
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Abstract Analyzing how transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms address the role of economic and political elites in contexts of widespread violence is crucial for understanding their possible transformative impact. The type of challenges faced by TJ instruments when trying to deal with economic elites involved in human rights violations also reflects the ...
Rosario Figari Layús
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Crimes of the powerful in Latin America and the Caribbean: Toward a research agenda
Abstract The scholarship on crimes of the powerful encompasses a critical examination of social harms, and crimes perpetrated by privately or publicly operated businesses and corporations, the state, international organizations, elites, as well as the state‐mediated administrative and political responses to these crimes.
Jose Atiles
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