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ABSTRACT This study introduces the ‘global forestation network’ (GFN)—an arrangement of actors that shape afforestation, reforestation, and forest restoration activities worldwide. These activities typically involve planting trees, and are motivated by supporting biodiversity, local communities, and climate change mitigation. At the GFN's core sit the ‘
Benjamin S. Thompson
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha +2 more
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Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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The Doctrine of State Necessity
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
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Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation
ABSTRACT Prior literature on gender and wealth accumulation largely examines the role of families in reproducing inequalities. However, less attention has been paid to families without sons, a significant demographic, particularly within China's one‐child generation, that challenges conventional understandings of familial wealth dynamics.
Ye Liu
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Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement
Abstract Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment remains under‐theorized. Drawing on 64 interviews with men held in prolonged self‐isolation or serving indeterminate forvaring sentences in Denmark, we conceptualize abandonment not simply as hardship but as suffering plus ...
Frederik Rom Taxhjelm, Julie Laursen
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Total roman domination in digraphs
Let D be a nite and simple digraph with vertex set V (D). A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a digraph D is a function f : V (D) → {0; 1; 2} satisfying the condition that every vertex v with f(v) = 0 has an in-neighbor u with f(u) = 2. The weight of an
Zhuang, Wei, Hu, Kangxiu, Hao, Guoliang
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