Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 771-788, September 2025.This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
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#Palladium of the People: A Kantian Right to Internet Access [PDF]
, 2017 Lack of high-speed internet access remains a problem in the United States, particularly in rural areas, Tribal lands, and the U.S. territories. High-speed internet should be considered a basic right because it connects people to social media, the new ...
Buckman, Christopher
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Humanimals: A Socio‐Ecological Reading of the Marseille Plague of 1720
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 285-301, September 2025.Abstract The aim of this article is to return to a small number of historically significant first‐person testimonies of the Marseille epidemic of 1720 in order to analyse in detail their construction and depiction of human exceptionality as a form of life in a time of plague.
David McCallam
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ECONOMIC BARRIERS INHIBITING THE SUCCESSFUL DELIVERY OF STATE HOUSING: AN EASTERN CAPE PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Housing delivery within South Africa, and specifically the Eastern Cape, is constrained by a variety of pressing issues. Significant nation-wide barriers include fiscal decentralization, supply driven inefficiencies, non-sustainability and bureaucratic ...
Townshend, Matthew
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, 2010 This chapter considers a complex of materials centred on the Alcestis of Euripides and its reception history as an opera (Lully, Gluck) in early modern France. The interest of this particular text is that its operatic setting by Lully generated a polemic
Wygant, A.
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Entangled Frontiers: Uncovering the Hydrosocial Territories of Shenzhen
Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 2, July‐December 2025.Short Abstract This paper contributes to hydropolitical scholarship by offering a unique case study of the co‐production of water and politics in Shenzhen, where water governance plays an important role in the management of its ever‐changing socioeconomic territories. It focuses on the spatial and scalar dimensions of hydrosocial relations and explores
Xiaoxuan Lu
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Adapting the Core Language Engine to French and Spanish
, 1996 We describe how substantial domain-independent language-processing systems for French and Spanish were quickly developed by manually adapting an existing English-language system, the SRI Core Language Engine.
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Savoirs et représentations sur le rôle de l'arbre dans les enjeux écologiques : Enquête auprès d'étudiants de Montpellier ayant plus de deux années d'études après le baccalauréat. Etude réalisée du 04 au 13 octobre 2006 [PDF]
, 2007 La présenté étude a été élaborée dans le cadre d'un module de formation aux méthodes d'enquêtes en sciences sociales, délivré à l'Ecole du Génie Rural Des Eaux Et Forêts (ENGREF).
Mutel, Madeleine, Sibelet, Nicole
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L’homme de Marx est-il un sujet individuel ou un être social? À propos de l’interprétation de Marx par Louis Dumont [PDF]
, 1991 Prenant le contre-pied de l'opinion généralement admise concernant l'anthropologie marxienne, Louis Dumont (dans son ouvrage Homo JEqualis. Genèse et épanouissement de l'idéologie économique} désigne celle-ci comme l'expression la plus achevée de l ...
Cantin, Serge
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Caring for the river‐border: Struggles and opportunities along the Salween River‐border
Area, Volume 57, Issue 2, June 2025.Abstract Geographers have shown how borders rely on the enactment of state power and violence to reinforce territorial integrity and sovereign authority, or even perpetuate the destruction of nature. Moving away from an emphasis on violence, in this paper, I take an approach to borders and bordering that emphasises the opportunities of the border when ...
Vanessa Lamb
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