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Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism
ABSTRACT After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter of ecological collapse to advance fascistic politics.
Chloe Ahmann +7 more
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“In silent bottom...”: crime in Olonets province (19th – early 20th centuries)
The study reviews the problems of formation and development of trends in the criminal sphere on the territory of Olonets province between the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is revealed that the situation in the field of crime has undergone significant
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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Abstract Decolonial theory (DT) has been advanced as a strategy for decolonisation alternative to 20th‐century anticolonialism, positioning decolonisation as an epistemic project rather than a historical‐material one. Here, I examine DT's arguments about anticolonialism: that it had a dogmatic bias towards nationalism and postcolonial state formation ...
Lavanya Nott
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As Van der Ploeg has argued, the re-emergence of twenty-first-century peasantries follows the same historical patterns of survival and autonomy. In Latin America's process of brutal peripheralization, peasantries adapted to encroaching processes of commodification, while in China the implosion of rural societies foreshadowed the painful process of an ...
Vanhaute, Eric +2 more
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Rural class differentiation in Nigeria: Theory and practice - a quantitative approach in the case of Nupeland [PDF]
The knowledge of social stratification within the peasantry is a decisive precondition of sustainable economic and political measures for an effective support of agricultural production in least developed countries. This is one of the reasons why also in
Kohnert, Dirk
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ABSTRACT This article examines the persistence and transformation of patriarchal–feudal structures in Polish art universities in the context of post‐1989 higher education (HE) reforms. Drawing on 22 in‐depth interviews with socially engaged academic staff (18 women and four men) across 11 Polish artistic institutions, the study explores how ...
Marta Kosińska, Karolina Sikorska
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Asia's and Latin America's development in comparative perspective : landlords, peasants, and industrialization [PDF]
Latin America;agrarian reform;industrialization;East Asia;Taiwan;agrarian structure;economic development;comparative analysis;Korea R;agricultural policy;development strategy;industrial policy;newly industrializing countries ...
Kay, C.
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ABSTRACT In the past half‐century, fishing in one regional part of the Baltic Sea, the Stockholm Archipelago, has almost disappeared due to falling fish abundance, especially of herring (Clupea harengus). By examining published observations and archived material on historical fishing patterns, we found evidence of a remarkably continuous high level of ...
Henrik Svedäng, Susanna Lidström
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Into their land and labours : a comparative and global analysis of trajectories of peasant transformation [PDF]
The fate of rural societies in the past and today cannot be understood in a singular manner. Peasantries across the world have followed different trajectories of change and have developed divergent repertoires of accommodation, adaptation and resistance.
Cottyn, Hanne, Vanhaute, Eric
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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