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No Remedy: Injustice and Constrained Citizenship in Indonesia's Plantation Zone
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This contribution to the special issue examines a constrained version of citizenship in Indonesia's plantation zone. When corporations take hold of village land, residents experience devastating dispossession and a profound sense of injustice, yet they lack effective channels through which to claim rights as citizens or secure remedy from the ...
Tania Murray Li, Pujo Semedi
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Latin American Indigenous Language Research [PDF]
, 2008 Latin American ...
England, Nora C.
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Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the effect of royal status—a historically rooted legal privilege enjoyed by hereditary monarchs and their families—on human longevity, a proxy of individuals' health capital. We disentangle the effect of royal status that encompassed serving as heads of state from that of other royal family members and compare it to their contemporary
Alberto Batinti +2 more
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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THE ACCOUNTING LAW AND THE GLOBALISATION ERA [PDF]
The accounting law appeared as a new procedure together with the globalisation period and the knowledge economy. The accounting information relevance for company patrimony approach is both an economic theoretical issue and an accounting law one.
LEPĂDATU, Gheorghe
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Brazil's Public Administration and the Challenge of New Democracies: Promoting Social Inclusion
Public Administration Review, Volume 86, Issue 2, Page 548-563, March/April 2026.ABSTRACT Brazil's public administration (PA) has sought to strengthen democratic governance through an emphasis on social inclusion. Since democratization in 1988, reforms have aimed to address entrenched inequalities along with decentralization and professionalism spurring innovations in social inclusion.
Evan M. Berman +7 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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Reformist hagiography : the life of St Roding of Beaulieu and the struggle for power in early eleventh-Century Lotharingia [PDF]
, 2016 This paper explores an example of ‘reformist’ hagiographic production in early eleventh-century Lotharingia by focusing on the Life of St Roding of Beaulieu, a small monastery in the diocese of Verdun.
Vanheule, Koen
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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SEVERAL COORDINATES ON BASIC ACCOUNTING FOR NON-SPECIALISTS HOLDING A MANAGERIAL POSITION IN UNIVERSITIES [PDF]
Any corporate entity, can function only with its accounting, as an objective requirement of financial management, the order and discipline being requirements of law, but also of their own status.
Carmen Comaniciu
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