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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF SMALL ARMS AND LIGHT WEAPONS (SALW) PROLIFERATION AND CRIMES IN KADUNA CENTRAL SENATORIAL DISTRICT

International Studies Journal
Research Problem: The excessive availability of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) is obvious across Senatorial Districts of Kaduna state, Nigeria including Kaduna Central Senatorial District.
OLANIRAN OLUSOLA, BILYAMINU MOHAMMED
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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Social Impact of Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons in North-Central Nigeria [PDF]

, 2020
This study was funded by the Nigeria Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), in respect of years 2011 – 2014 TETFund Research grant. The authors thank and appreciate the Management of TETFund, and the Federal Polytechnic Idah Kogi Nigeria, for making ...
Philip, Attah Amana, Ogwu, Haruna Paul
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Proliferation of Small Arm and Light Weapon AND Insecurity in Northwestern Nigeria: A Review

Bulletin of "Carol I" National Defense University
This paper critically reviews the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in Northwestern Nigeria, examining their sources, implications, and connections to rising insecurity. Drawing on a wide range of scholarly and institutional literature,
Mubarak Sulaiman JAMIU
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Finding the Balance Between Price and Protection: Establishing a Surface-to-Air Fire Risk-Reduction Training Policy for Air-Carrier Pilots

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research, 2017
Currently, U.S. air carriers do not provide equipment or training necessary to mitigate the risk posed by surface-to-air fire (SAFIRE) threats. These threats consist of self-guided weapons (infrared shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles), manually-aimed
Earl W Burress
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Refugees and “Missing” Arms Trade [PDF]

Millions of people are killed or wounded by small arms each year. The aim of this study is to enhance our understanding of “missing” arms trade across countries. We proceed in two steps.
Gaia Narciso
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines chronicle accounts of the so‐called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt was partly the consequence of failed economic and political reforms which put pressure on the countryside, but was provoked by the command issued ...
Jamie Page
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Expanding the Use of PAVA Spray in Young Offender Institutions: The King (on the application of The Howard League for Penal Reform) v The Secretary of State for Justice

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This case note critically examines the January 2026 High Court judgment in The King (on the application of The Howard League for Penal Reform) v The Secretary of State for Justice which dismissed a judicial review challenging the expansion of the use of PAVA spray in Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) in England.
Raymond Arthur
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