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The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
wiley   +1 more source

Book Club at a medical school in the Sertão Region of Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil. [PDF]

J Med Libr Assoc
Sampaio AL, Silva Á, Limão Y, Bezerra L, Braz J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
wiley   +1 more source

Mental illness, forced labour, and colonial biopower in Kabba Province of Northern Nigeria, 1900-1947. [PDF]

Med Hist
Itodo UF.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
wiley   +1 more source

Epistemicide and colonial knowledge: a contrapuntal reading of Nair historiography in South India. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Anandhu S, Anupama Nayar CV, Aneesh AS.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Anthropology Can Harm Students During a Genocide

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay is about the harm that is committed in the name of care. More specifically, it is about student requests for support during the ongoing genocide in Palestine and an anthropology department's use and weaponization of the language of “care” to do the exact opposite: to cause harm.
Girish Daswani
wiley   +1 more source

Speculative Expropriation. [PDF]

Polit Theory
Wapeemukwa W.
europepmc   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Silenced and privileged voices in media discourses: Climate change and social capital. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bashri M, Ahmed ST.
europepmc   +1 more source