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The geopolitics of politico-religious protest in Eastern Tibet [PDF]
, 2012 It is clear that the recent wave of self-immolations and protests taking place in southern Amdo and northern Kham in eastern Tibet is a reflection of an extreme form of defiance in response to an increasingly repressive atmosphere.
Fischer, A.M. (Andrew Martín)
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This paper suggests a rational explanation for extreme voluntary sacrifice in situations in which the state of the world when the decision must be made is observable only by the agent. Such explanation is the cult of martyrs, heroes, and saints.
Ferrero, Mario
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After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?: from the ‘Arab Awakening’ to the Arab Spring; the post-colonial state in the Middle East [PDF]
, 2012 The consequences of the political turmoil that swept across the Middle East in 2011 support the claim that those twelve months have been the most politically significant in the region for over fifty years.
Dodge, Toby
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World Suicide Prevention Day: The need to develop regional strategies to reduce self-immolation [PDF]
Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciencesno english abstract available.
mehran zarghami
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Communicatief lijden en de ethiek van het beeld : een essay [PDF]
, 2014 From a sociological viewpoint, suffering can be a source of power in at least two significant ways: by conveying information and by evoking emotions. Accordingly, social theories of protest as ‘communicative suffering’ distinguish dying with a cause ...
Stamenkovic, Marko
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مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2016 Background: Suicide is one of the serious challenges facing mankind today. Considering that in our country a study to evaluate the use of mental health services and suicide by self-immolation is not carried out, determining the history of mental health ...
Amirhossein Jalali-Nadoushan +3 more
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Lincoln’s Forgotten Middle Years
, 2017 It would be difficult to find two books on Abraham Lincoln published in the same year and yet more unalike in their conclusions than Sidney Blumenthal’s Wrestling with His Angel (the second installment in his multi-volume survey of Lincoln’s “political ...
Guelzo, Allen C.
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The COVID-19 pandemic and suicide by self-immolation: Is risk increasing? [PDF]
Burns, 2020 Rezaie L, Schwebel DC.
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Sequencing of Sequence-Defined Oligourethanes via Controlled Self-Immolation. [PDF]
J Am Chem Soc, 2020 Dahlhauser SD +10 more
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Self-Immolative Dendritic Hydrogels
, 2021 Stimuli-responsive hydrogels have attracted significant research interest as they exhibit triggerable drug release or changes in mechanical properties. Hydrogels containing dendrimers have also been targeted as their multiple functional groups provide enhanced crosslinking or chemical conjugation.
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