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Remaking State Power Through a Paraquat Ban in Malaysia

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the role of the state in its ability to enact environmental regulations. Specifically, this study investigates how Malaysian state actors changed, shifted and betrayed various, oftentimes competing interests to ban paraquat, an acutely toxic herbicide.
Caitlyn Sears
wiley   +1 more source

From Hurricane Irma to the Grindavík eruptions: volatility premiums in disaster governance. [PDF]

Disasters
Björnsson T.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

Confronting Postcolonial Theory—A Response to Critics

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015
Vivek Chibber
doaj   +1 more source

‘Deaf Is Only One of Us’ and Other Viewpoints in Historical Debates on TV and Film Captioning in Hong Kong

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What are captions, and why do they matter? Captioning is a text‐based tool that makes it easier for those who do not sufficiently recognize spoken language on the screen to understand TV and films. Furthermore, the captions help viewers understand the screen content, notwithstanding the context they are in.
Jan‐Eerik Leppaenen
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction to the special issue: Global South histories of madness - new perspectives on mental troubles and psychiatry from Latin America and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. [PDF]

Med Hist
Favier I, Tiquet R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Post‐Humanitarian Militarism and the End of Development: Global Inequality, Security, and the Ethics of Post‐Imperial Solidarity

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the transformation of global development from a discourse of aspirational equality to a regime of posthumanitarian militarism. It shows how aid, once framed as solidarity and progress, increasingly operates as an instrument of coercion, surveillance, and containment.
Salvador Santino Regilme
wiley   +1 more source

The Therapeutic Benefits of Outdoor Experiences in India. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Mitra SJ, Sharma-Brymer V, Mitten D, Ady J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
wiley   +1 more source

Postcolonial Theory and the Spectre of Capital

Estudios Sociológicos, 2015
Vivek Chibber, Sanjay Seth
doaj   +1 more source