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Satire and Silence Under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Of Dark Arts and Dictators-Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts by William Partlett. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
McCallum A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

Human Evolution in Backwaters, Satellites, and Republics: How Political Change Impacts Paleoanthropology in a Shifting Landscape of Winners and Losers. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Glantz M, Radovčić D.
europepmc   +1 more source

When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

Color Trails Test: regression-based norms for Russian-speakers. [PDF]

Arch Clin Neuropsychol
Melikyan ZA, Bock JR, Agranovich AV.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sociodemographic predictors of public attitudes toward deceased organ donation and organ trade in Kazakhstan. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Kassymova A, Omarova A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond the Cut: Generative Refusal and the Reimagining of Jewish Affiliation in Contemporary Israel

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Jewish‐Israeli society, circumcision (brit milah) carries far‐reaching significance, symbolizing both the covenant between god and the Jewish people and serving as a key marker of communal affiliation and cultural continuity. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with Jewish‐Israeli parents who have chosen not to circumcise their sons and using ...
Nina Rageth
wiley   +1 more source

Political and social analysis of the impact of national identity and gender roles on national stability (in the context of Kazakhstan). [PDF]

Front Sociol
Nurpeissova N, Tolen Z, Zhuzeyev S, Syzdykova M, Abdiramanova A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Paradox of Threat: Vernacular Security Governance Among Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Four European States

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do religious minorities proactively manage their safety amid global crises and local hostility? This article examines these dynamics, conceptualized as “vernacular security governance,” among Jewish and Muslim populations in four European states.
Tahir Abbas, May Tamimova, Irene Trebeschi, Paul Wabnitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source