Social inequalities and environmental conflict [PDF]
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2006 This paper is organized around two points. The first concerns the literature on environmental justice (EJ) studies and its lack of incorporation of social scientific theories and concepts concerning racism. This is surprising, given EJ studies' strong interest in challenging a form of racism - environmental racism.
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Crime and social conflict in India
The Economics of Peace and Security Journal, 2014 This article has two goals. First, using district-level panel data we identify key determinants of violent crime, nonviolent crime, and crime against women in India, 1990-2007. Second, using district-level variation in regard to Maoist-driven social conflict, we examine how social conflict affects crime and its determinants. In addition to conventional
Sofia Amaral +3 more
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Reputation, social identity, and social conflict [PDF]
We interpret the social identity literature and examine its economic implications. We model a population of agents from two exogenous and well defined social groups. Agents are randomly matched to play a reduced form bargaining game.
Smith, John
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Social conflict in the contemporary French roman noir [PDF]
, 2015 Conflict is by definition at the heart of the crime novel: most evidently in the usually violent conflict between victim and perpetrator but also in a more abstract, though equally important, way in the conflict between the perpetrator and the social ...
Kimyongür, Angela
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Social Composition, Social Conflict and Economic Development [PDF]
The Economic Journal, 2008 This article investigates how the existence of non-cooperative social groups that appropriate resources either peacefully or through contest affects economic growth when property rights are unenforceable. For symmetric groups it shows that economic growth is generated only in peaceful societies.
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Conflict Resolution and the Transformation of the Social Contract [PDF]
, 2007 [Excerpt] Here is my argument in a nutshell. Beginning more than thirty years ago, the social contract that had governed relations between workers and employers in the United States for the period following World War II began to unravel.
Lipsky, David B
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Between social control and conflict: an analytical framework for social movements [PDF]
, 2013 The main goal of this article is to attempt to determine the analytical framework of social movements that would constitute an essential element of this form of collective activity.
Baranowski, Mariusz
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Reduced social function in experimentally evolved Dictyostelium discoideum implies selection for social conflict in nature. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Larsen TJ +4 more
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The agrarian question and violence in Colombia: conflict and development [PDF]
, 2011 This article examines connections between Colombia’s internal armed conflict and agrarian questions. It pays attention to the country’s specific historical trajectory of agrarian change, the violent expression of social tensions that this elicited, and ...
Akram-Lodhi +55 more
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Adaptation and validation of the financial stress scale in social conflict contexts: a study conducted with small and medium-sized Peruvian entrepreneurs. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Tito-Betancur M +4 more
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