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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
wiley   +1 more source

Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Stochastic pursuit-evasion games

open access: yesJournal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 1977
openaire   +2 more sources

VOID URBANISM: Unbuilt New Cities and State Formation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the planning process behind Kitoko City in the Democratic Republic of Congo—a new city project officially launched in 2019 but never implemented—this article examines the political, social, and spatial effects generated by urban initiatives that remain at the stage of intention. It investigates how such unbuilt projects
Patrick Belinga Ondoua
wiley   +1 more source

NOCTURNAL INFORMALITY: Rethinking the Temporal Politics of Urban Informality

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban informality has long been theorized as a spatial condition of urban life—an expression of negotiation, improvisation, and survival within the uneven terrains of legality and governance. Yet this emphasis on space has obscured the temporalities through which informality is lived, governed, and contested. This essay develops the concept of
Elmond Bandauko
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Description and the Agro‐Industry's Response to Environmental Crises

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how self‐descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the crises themselves and the need for transformative responses.
Sharon Kishik, Morten Knudsen
wiley   +1 more source

Iflaviruses in arthropods: when small is mighty

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
Many arthropod species harbor iflaviruses, which often cause covert (asymptomatic) infections, but may still affect host fitness. We review the impact of iflaviruses on arthropod fitness, immunity, behaviour as well as the iflavirus’ host range, transmission, tissue tropism and the interactions with other microorganisms within arthropods.
Annamaria Mattia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal Responses to Warming: Do Wild Herbivores Trade Off Heat, Predators, and Humans?

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We untangled how summer temperature, predators, and humans influenced behavioral responses in two deer species. Both reduced their daily activity level in response to warming, yet only roe deer increased nocturnality to avoid heat. Conversely, fallow deer traded off heat avoidance with predator avoidance.
Noemi Pallari   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the Indo‐Pacific: The EU's 2025 Council Conclusions Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’.
Nicholas Ross Smith   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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