Hide and rule: Accumulation by disappearance and necro‐periurbanisation in Brazil
Short Abstract This paper examines how peri‐urban spaces are governed through concealment and obfuscation. Focusing on the Baixada Fluminense near Rio de Janeiro, it connects land fraud (‘grilagem’) to the obfuscation of violence, proposing the concept of ‘accumulation by disappearance’.
Jan Simon Hutta
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Syphilis, blanchiment and French colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa during the interwar period. [PDF]
Linte G.
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Empire, Colonial Wars and Post-Colonialism in the Portuguese Contemporary Imagination
M. Ribeiro
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Abstract This paper examines corporate LGBTQ+ activism and the productive incorporation of queers into capitalism in Brazil. Mobilising transnational queer materialist critiques in tandem with critical perspectives from teoria do cu, the paper sheds light on how homonormativity operates not simply as a set of cultural norms or representational tropes ...
Olimpia Burchiellaro
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Integrating full and partial genome sequences to decipher the global spread of canine rabies virus. [PDF]
Holtz A, Baele G, Bourhy H, Zhukova A.
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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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Limits of the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship funding: Maria Palmira Macedo Tito de Morais and international nursing, 1936-1966. [PDF]
Batista RDS.
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Constructing Institutional Measures: Indicators of Political and Property Rights in Mozambique, 1900-2005 [PDF]
In this paper we focus on the role of political and economic institutions in Mozambique’s development. We produce a set of institutional indicators for Mozambique for the period 1900 through to 2005.
Guilherme Oliveira +2 more
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“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies
Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
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Between Deserts and Jungles: The Emergence and Circulation of Sylvatic Plague (1920-1950). [PDF]
Alves Duarte da Silva M.
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