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‘Politicide’ and the Myanmar coup
Anthropology Today, 2021 Can the 2021 Myanmar coup be understood as part of a broader campaign by the Burmese army to commit ‘politicide’? The recent wave of violent raids, detentions and extrajudicial killings taking place across Myanmar is part of a long‐standing pattern of systematic violence perpetrated against political groups and social movements that challenge military ...
Seinenu M. Thein‐Lemelson
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State actions and response following instances of politicide [PDF]
, 2018 The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf ...
Rich, Samantha
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Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 300-320, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract In the course of the Syrian Civil War, prominent former Syrian Regime politicians, human rights observers, and foreign observers have accused the Syrian Regime of committing genocide against the country's Sunni majority. This article views these accusations as part of a wider politicization of genocide, and instead progresses beyond them to ...
Samer Bakkour
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A city in a bunker in a city: Demilitarizing art in South Korea
Museum Anthropology, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 4-14, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract Located mere feet from the busy Yeouido Bus Transfer Center, the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) Bunker is a former military bunker from 1970s authoritarian South Korea that now showcases changing art exhibits. Debuting in November 2019, Paju (by artist Kim Seung Rea) features a series of paintings and statues capturing life in the town of Paju in ...
Timothy Gitzen
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An architecture for a net zero world: Global climate governance beyond the epoch of failure
Global Policy, Volume 13, Issue S3, Page 24-37, December 2022., 2022 Abstract In the wake of the 2021 Glasgow meeting of the Paris Agreement, where states embedded a 2050 pathway to net zero that will overshoot the Earth's remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C, attention is turning to the flaws of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Anthony Burke
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 594-611, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Dominant majorities often use idealized categories to validate the ‘goodness’ and deservingness of minority citizens. For Palestinian citizens of Israel, this category is the ‘good Arab’. Since its origins in early Jewish settlement of Palestine, it has become a powerful and controversial metaphor in Israeli public discourse. As an experienced
Andreas Hackl
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Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2022 This article aims at analysing the complexity surrounding the fact of surviving the clandestine centers of dentention during the last Argentinian dictatorship and therefore, the ensuing complexity of the artistic production of the people who were ...
Amandine Guillard
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Alternative Models of Dynamics in Binary Time-Series-Cross-Section Models: The Example of State Failure [PDF]
, 2001 This paper investigates a variety of dynamic probit models for time-series-cross-section data in the context of explaining state failure. It shows that ordinary probit, which ignores dynamics, is misleading.
Beck, Nathaniel +3 more
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Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?) [PDF]
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2014 The statistics of democide is a relatively new research field in Romania. The appearance of the volume entitled: The book of the dead from prisons, detention camps and deportations, led by writer and civic militant Romulus Rusan, represents a remarkable
Dan PAVEL
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From low-conflict polity to democratic civil peace: explaining Zambian exceptionalism [PDF]
, 2005 An absence of civil war and other significant sub-state violence makes Zambia an exceptional although not unique case in central-southern Africa. The literature devoted to explaining civil war has grown dramatically in recent years, but while it pays ...
Burnell, Peter J.
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