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USE OF PRIVATE MILITARY COMPANIES TO PROTECT NATIONAL INTERESTS AND STATE SECURITY

, 2020
Yurii Semeniuk
semanticscholar   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Legal infrastructure for transformative AI governance. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Hadfield GK.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE URBANISM OF EXCEPTION: Scalar Rivalry and Political Loyalty in the Making of the Panorama Tbilisi Megaproject

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In flawed democracies, such as the Republic of Georgia, legal exceptions for urban megaprojects are becoming a standard mode of governance. While frequently analyzed as singular, top‐down sovereign acts, I argue that the imposition of such exceptions is a complex and dispersed process.
David Gogishvili
wiley   +1 more source

Superintelligence: A Crucial Juncture in the Development of Healthcare Sciences and Public Health. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Magnavita N.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE TRANSCALAR POLITICS AND SPATIAL IMPLICATIONS OF INVESTMENTS IN SHOPPING MALLS IN AFRICAN CITIES: A Study of Accra's West Hills Mall, Ghana

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien, George Owusu, Kofi Kekeli Amedzro, Musah Aziba Issah, Jennifer Robinson, John Spyropoulos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES: THE NEED FOR INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGULATION

Электронное приложение к Российскому юридическому журналу, 2023
Permyakov Georgy
doaj   +1 more source

A demographic comparison of NASA astronauts and commercial spaceflight participants. [PDF]

NPJ Microgravity
Hogan KJ, Urquieta E, Reynolds RJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Is the Sahel redefining its security? African agency, private military companies, and the changing face of security partnerships

Critical Military Studies
O. Bamigboye
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source