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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Class Ruptures and Openings: The Role of Social and Family History in Narratives on Class Mobility and Reproduction

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Political Show-Technology in the Post-Soviet Space

Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017
In the modern political process of Russia actively used technology show. With their help, political actors can influence public opinion and shape the public interest in certain issues.
O. E. Grishin, A. D. Mitrofanova
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of integration processes on post-soviet space

RUDN Journal of Economics, 2012
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the Belgian geopolitics J. Thiriart likened the former USSR with a chocolate bar. After segments (former Soviet republics) broken off, it is not enough to put it all together to recover the entire tile.
I V Andronova
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The Economic and Ecological Impact of Soy in Brazil: A Synthetic Control Method Approach

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, soy expansion in Brazil has generated significant environmental, social and economic impacts. However, there is no consensus about benefits and drawbacks, calling for a more careful account of the economic and ecological diversity of the territories where this phenomenon has been unfolding.
Stefano Ghinoi, Simone Piras, Luca Tasciotti, Valdemar João Wesz Junior   +3 more
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Color Revolutions: Export of the Post-Soviet Space

Проблемы постсоветского пространства, 2017
The new phenomenon of the beginning of XXI century in the political transformations became the «color revolutions» that have a significant force in the fight against the enemy and geopolitical engendered under the pretext of spreading the ideas of ...
O. E. Grishin, E. M. Samsonova
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Legal Regulation of States and International Journalistic Organizations Interaction in the Eurasian Media Space

Евразийская интеграция: экономика, право, политика
Progress towards deliberative democracy in the post-Soviet reality requires legal conditions for countering violent extremism through sustainable development of journalistic unions.   Aim and tasks. The development of the Eurasian media space through the
G. V. Alexeyev, O. N. Kharina
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Revisiting the Political Economy of Agriculture in 21st Century Food Systems

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1932, Joseph Duncan argued in the Journal of Agricultural Economics that agricultural economists should engage more explicitly with politics. Nearly a century later, the political economy of food and agriculture has expanded in both scope and complexity.
Danielle Resnick, Johan Swinnen
wiley   +1 more source