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Protests and blood on the streets: repressive state, police brutality and #EndSARS protest in Nigeria. [PDF]

Secur J, 2022
Iwuoha VC, Aniche ET.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
wiley   +1 more source

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF POLICE HARASSMENT OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA

International Studies Journal, 2023
Globally, police is an important institution of established states, given the responsibility to maintain public law and order. However, in Nigeria, these roles have been overshadowed by lack professionalism and civil public engagement which have ...
Ademolu Oluwaseun Adenuga, Abdullahi Abiodun Oyekanmi   +1 more
doaj  

Standing While Black: Distinguishing Lyons in Racial Profiling Cases [PDF]

, 2000
Plaintiffs challenging racial profiling must contend with the Supreme Court\u27s decision in City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, which restricted standing for injunctive relief against government officials.
Garrett, Brandon L.
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Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
wiley   +1 more source

THE CLAIM AND THE RELIEF: REVEALING MISCONCEPTIONS AND MISSTEPS IN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT’S JURISPRUDENCE FOR §1983 ACTIONS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER

Columbia Journal of Race and Law
This article explores the persistent challenges in addressing police brutality through civil rights litigation, focusing on the limitations imposed by federal jurisdiction and justiciability doctrines post-Lyons.
Simona Grossi
doaj   +1 more source

Spartan Daily November 4, 2009 [PDF]

, 2008
Volume 133, Issue 35https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/1302/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
wiley   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, September 3, 1992 [PDF]

, 1992
Volume 99, Issue 5https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/8290/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
core   +1 more source

Can riots represent? A democratic theory

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
wiley   +1 more source