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‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

Between Dispossession and Inclusion: Land Injustice and Project‐Based Citizenship in the Bagré Irrigation Scheme (Burkina Faso)

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large‐scale irrigation schemes are central to agrarian transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa, yet their political implications are often reduced to questions of land redistribution or agrarian differentiation. Although existing scholarship has documented how irrigation restructures agrarian relations and generates dispossession, less attention ...
William's Daré
wiley   +1 more source

Local Crime Spillover Onto Public–Private Partnership Financing Commitment: Do Urban Proximity and Local Affluence Matter?

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the relationship between public infrastructure and crime location choices is well‐studied in criminology, the impact of crime as a spillover externality on public–private partnership (PPP) infrastructure financing remains unexplored. Leveraging a data set of 542 Private Finance Initiative (PFI)‐funded infrastructures in England and Wales
King Yoong Lim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Cross and Conflict: How Do Christians Impact Protest Dynamics?

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between Christian actors, practices, and sacred sites in US protests and demonstrations, focusing on how political ideology shapes conflict outcomes. Using event‐level data from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), the analysis explores 63,000 protest events from 2020 to 2024 ...
Joel Day
wiley   +1 more source

The Social Contract and Collective Action: Grievances, Cleavages, and Protests in the Middle East

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do grievances turn into collective action? This article examines how citizens' expectations in social contracts lead them to embark on street protests. It draws on original, nationally representative telephone surveys in Tunisia and Lebanon and unpacks popular preferences about the states' obligations to deliver social service provision ...
Markus Loewe, Holger Albrecht
wiley   +1 more source

Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source

The Pictures and the Frame: Banknote Iconography and Bottom‐Up Nationalism in Pre‐ and Post‐Revolutionary Tunisia

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
wiley   +1 more source

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