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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Psychiatrization of society. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Sociol, 2023
Beeker T   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
wiley   +1 more source

The Kichwa of Sarayaku Case at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Legal Pluralism, Identity and Citizenship in a Context of Extractivism

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the tension between a universal approach to law and the recognition of indigenous peoples' rights at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights. The struggle for citizenship in a situation of extractivism and land dispossession demonstrates how identity is mobilized to obtain and attribute rights. The focus of this study is
Elisabeth Cunin
wiley   +1 more source

Mediated Aspirations and Structural Walls: Daily Media Practices Among a Peripheral Roma Community in Türkiye

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how media usage trends of Roma people intersect with urban peripherality and structural inequalities. The study designed as a two‐stage comparative ethnographic field study and conducted in 2016 and 2025 on a Roma community living in Izmir Province of Türkiye, focuses on the ongoing deprivations of the Roma population in ...
Mehmet Işık, Şakir Eşitti
wiley   +1 more source

Forging legal communitas: physicians’ resistance in media discourses in Sweden's ‘Snitch Law’ debate

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract In October 2022, the Swedish government announced a series of reforms in the field of migration policy, including a proposed legal obligation requiring all employees in public institutions, including healthcare professionals, to report people living as undocumented migrants in the country to the authorities.
JOSEPHINE T. V. GREENBROOK   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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