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Can riots represent? A democratic theory

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralized propaganda in the era of digital media: The massive presence of the Chinese state on Douyin

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that authoritarian regimes have adopted a decentralized approach to produce and disseminate propaganda on social media.
Yingdan Lu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning to Love Rats: A Postwar Ecology in a Cambodian Minefield

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper follows the implementation of landmine detection rats in Cambodia. Over the course of my ethnographic fieldwork with the team for the landmine detection rat technique training in Cambodia, I saw that the way the human landmine detectors (a.k.a.
Darcie DeAngelo
wiley   +1 more source

A Black Inflammatory Response to Anti‐Blackness

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Racism, heteronormativity, classism, and all systems of oppression produce an inflammatory response across varied scales, from bodily inflammation such as stress and disease to social chaos and structural violence. This response paper to Dána Ain‐Davis's notion of “Black anti‐bodies” considers how Black queer bodies are targeted and impacted ...
Nessette Falu
wiley   +1 more source

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