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Some concers regarding the mass deportations of bessarabians to the USSR between 1940-1941
Astra Salvensis, 2019 In this article, the author presents a general radiography of communist repressions in Soviet Bessarabia between 1940-1941. The author makes some considerations on the nature of these repressions.
Gheorghe Cazacu
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Dilemmas of Civilian Participation in Military Deterrence and Defence: Legal and Ethical Dimensions
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How can civilians participate in deterrence and defence in ways that do not jeopardize their immunity from deliberate attack? The principle of civilian immunity from deliberate attack in war is a core element of contemporary international humanitarian law (IHL). Uniformed combatants and others who take up arms pose a threat may be liable to be
Neta C. Crawford
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
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Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.Summary Background and Objectives The Hospital de la Magdalena, a care home for female prostitutes with venereal diseases, operated in Barcelona from 1923 to 1959. The purpose of this investigation is to highlight how this hospital was used to educate female prostitutes morally in addition to providing medical treatment.
Florian Grafl, Florian Steger
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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Death Penalty in the Lithuanian SSR in 1950–1990: Legal Grounds and Periods
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2016 The article reviews execution of death row inmates from the Lithuanian SSR between 1950 and 1990. It describes the procedure, the extension of the legal framework governing the enforcement of the death penalty, and the underlying trends. Four periods
Darius Indrišionis
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REPRESSION OF BELIEVERS IN UZBEKISTAN DURING THE SOVIET PERIOD
, 2022 This scientific article describes the policy of the Soviet government in Uzbekistan in the 20-30s of the last century and the attitude of believers, including Muslim clerics and Christian clergy, their repression, the activities of believers. the state of religious institutions and organizations, and how the ceremonies conducted by Muslim clerics and ...
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Satire and Silence Under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
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Genocide concept in Lithuanian history
Genocidas ir Rezistencija, 2001 The term ‘genocide’ has appeared in Lithuanian historiography relatively recently, which may be the reason why its usage varies so much. It can be said that there are different viewpoints justifying or denying the use of the term to describe different ...
Arvydas Anušauskas
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