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, 2016 Slurs are typically defined as conveying contempt based on group-membership. However, here I argue that they are not a unitary group. First, I describe two dimensions of variation among derogatives: how targets are identified, and how offensive the term ...
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela
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Simulating the impact of regulation changes on the market for prostitution services [PDF]
, 2010 The paper draws on recent research on the economics of prostitution focussing on the role of stigma in shaping the interaction between demand and supply and the resulting sub-markets in which this activity is typically organised.
Della Giusta, Marina
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Cannabis medicinal y arreglos farmacológicos en Colombia
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2019 This article describes from an ethnographic perspective the legalization process of medicinal cannabis in Colombia. The story connects several agents and scales.
Andrés Góngora
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Novos Estudos - CEBRAP, 2021 This article focuses on the legal disputes between the U.S. government and the Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal (UDV), as well as on the regulation of the religious use of ayahuasca by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Our aim is to present the main issues that were at stake throughout the dispute, especially the relationship between the ...
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It's not what you said, it's the way you said it: slurs and conventional implicatures
, 2013 In this paper, I defend against a number of criticisms an account of slurs, according to which the same semantic content is expressed in the use of a slur (e.g. 'chink') as is expressed in the use of its neutral counterpart (e.g.
Whiting, Daniel
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Is decriminalising drugs enough? Navigating alternatives to prohibitionism
SOCIOLOGIA ON LINEThis article provides an overview of Portuguese drug laws, highlighting their unique features, current limitations, and ongoing challenges. Although Portugal has decriminalised the use of all illegal drugs, certain aspects reflect the ambivalence of its legal approach toward drug users. The reinstatement of drug use as a criminal offense by the Supreme
Jorge Quintas, Ximene Rêgo
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Prostitution and the Irish State: From Prohibitionism to a Globalised Sex Trade [PDF]
Irish Political Studies, 2010 Abstract This article argues that while the prostitution policies of the Irish state have changed over a long time from an unambiguous prohibitionism towards a partial abolitionism, overall policy is characterised by inconsistency and contradictions and legal changes have occurred outside of a comprehensive policy review.
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The Erotic and the Vulgar: Visual Culture and Organized Labor's Critique of U.S. Hegemony in Occupied Japan [PDF]
, 2007 This essay engages the colonial legacy of postwar Japan by arguing that the political cartoons produced as part of the postwar Japanese labor movement’s critique of U.S.
Allison Anne +51 more
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An Archival Case Study: Revisiting The Life and Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie [PDF]
, 2009 This paper forms part of a wider project to show the significance of archival material on distinguished economists, in this case Lauchlin Currie (1902-93), who studied and taught at Harvard before entering government service at the US Treasury and ...
Roger Sandilands
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Gendered Japan: Law, Empire, and Modern Girls on the Go [PDF]
, 2018 Multi-book Essay: "Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium." Edited by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014.
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