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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Control of trade and transfer of small arms and light weapons

, 2011
Termin malokalibarsko i lako oružje (SALW) odnosi se na konvencionalno oružje koje je relativno jeftino i lako dostupno, jednostavno za upotrebu i održavanje. Ono predstavlja široko rasprostranjenu pretnju za bezbednost država, zajednica i pojedinaca. To je osnovno oružje koje se koristi u većini sukoba i oružanog nasilja.
Radojević, Kristina, Rokvić, Vanja, Ivaniš, Željko   +2 more
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Proliferation of Small Arms, Light Weapons and Nigerian Security: A Case Study of North-Eastern Nigeria [PDF]

Using the North-East as a case study, this research examined the impact of the proliferation of small arms and light weapons on Nigerian security. The research gathered it data from both primary and secondary sources.
Luka, Baiyi Viniru, Isah, Benjamin, Philip, Umar   +2 more
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Lithic analysis in African archaeology: Advances and key themes

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Stone artifacts (lithics) preserve for extended periods; thus they are key evidence for probing the evolution of human technological behaviors. Africa boasts the oldest record of stone artifacts, spanning 3.3 Ma, rare instances of ethnographic stone tool‐making, and stone tool archives from diverse ecological settings, making it an anchor for ...
Deborah I. Olszewski, Amanuel Beyin, Justin Pargeter   +2 more
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Of eyes and hands: Assessing the evolutionarily stable strategy of human handedness by means of eye‐tracking

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) suggests that the 1:9 ratio of left‐ to right‐handers in humans could reflect a frequency‐dependent equilibrium: the minority of left‐handers and the majority of right‐handers may have an advantage in competitive and cooperative circumstances, respectively.
Giulia Prete, Adolfo Di Crosta, Erika Marascia, Pasquale La Malva, Irene Ceccato, Luca Tommasi   +5 more
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Which Decolonization? Theorizing Decolonization beyond Decoloniality and its Critics

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The debate on decolonial thought has reached an unhelpful stalemate. A core problem in assessing decolonial thought is that the term ‘decolonization’ has been stretched so widely that it now allows for many competing uses. For some critics of decolonial thought such as Nigerian philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, this overuse points to conceptual ...
David Myer Temin
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Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
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Chasing the perfida Albione: Anglo‐Italian productivity gap in the late 1930s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents new estimates of Anglo‐Italian labour productivity levels in manufacturing in the late 1930s, derived using the standard single‐deflation approach. The findings confirm a substantial productivity gap between Italy and the United Kingdom at the aggregate level, alongside pronounced intersectoral heterogeneity.
Tancredi Salamone
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