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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Georgia: Individual State Report - State-level Field Network Study of the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This report is part of a series of 21 state and regional studies examining the rollout of the ACA. The national network -- with 36 states and 61 researchers -- is led by the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State
Michael J. Rich
core  

CENSUS UNDERCOUNTS, DIGITAL DISPLACEMENT, AND DATA JUSTICE: What Social Scientists and Data Users Need to Know About the 2020 US Census

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Census data are foundational to democracy, research and equitable urban policy. In addition to supporting political reapportionment and redistricting, census data serve as the backbone of the federal statistical data system and are often considered the highest quality data—the ‘gold standard'—for scholarly and policy research.
Jason R. Jurjevich
wiley   +1 more source

Litigating State Interests: Attorneys General as Amici [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
An important strain of federalism scholarship locates the primary value of federalism in how it carves up the political landscape, allowing groups that are out of power at the national level to flourish—and, significantly, to govern—in the states.
Lemos, Margaret H., Quinn, Kevin M.
core   +2 more sources

DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
wiley   +1 more source

The Myth of Civic Republicanism: Interrogating the Ideology of Antebellum Legal Ethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Ethicists, historians and sociologists have generally accepted the premise that the legal profession did not offer strong, public defenses of the adversary ethic (ethically neutral service of clients) until after 1870 when professional elites sought to ...
Spaulding, Norman W.
core   +2 more sources

Family Work Among the Astors

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

The Classification of Republican Period Records in View of Modern Diplomatics: A Study of Current Records II

open access: yesTürk Kütüphaneciliği, 2013
Although Ottoman document types have been studied, the documents of the Republican era have not yet been sufficiently studied. Academic studies and university publications of recent years can be seen as promising developments, albeit quite inadequate ...
Niyazi Çiçek
doaj  

Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
wiley   +1 more source

Las ideas sobre la ley y el pueblo en la construcción y consolidación de la República chilena (1810-1860).

open access: yesHistoria Crítica, 2008
The period from 1810 to 1860 represents a period of signifcant transition toward modern republican and penal forms that still maintained a pejorative and stigmatizing perception of popular groups from the colonial past.
Marco Antonio León León.
doaj  

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