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State Integration and Violence at the Margins: The Logic of Police Raids in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas
The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates police raids in Rio de Janeiro's favelas through a property rights framework, exploring their organisational structure, motivations and implications. Using data from police reports, academic studies, NGOs and news sources, it examines why and how the state intervenes in these contested spaces.
Joseph Bouchard
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Japanese Journal of Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 206-223, March 2025.Abstract Although sociological neoinstitutionalist thought has made indelible imprints across the social sciences in Japan, its incorporation into Japanese sociology at large has been relatively limited, and its broader applications to analyses of global social phenomena using World Society Theory are even less prominent.
Ralph I. Hosoki
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Statelessness in Russian Federation
Московский журнал международного права, 2010 This article considers various aspects of statelessness in Russian Federation. In particular, it covers the history of legislation regarding stateless persons, actual status of stateless persons in Russia.
E. V. Tarasyants
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Statelessness and Microfinance
Tilburg Law Review, 2014 This paper studies how microfinance can operate in stateless communities and whether it can have a positive long-term impact on such a clientele. First, the principles of microfinance are presented and linked to the needs of the stateless. Then a project realised in Bhutanese refugee camps is described as a good practice example and its relevance for ...
Brian P. Colgan, Ondřej Kolínský
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Reinforcement Learning in Modern Biostatistics: Constructing Optimal Adaptive Interventions
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary In recent years, reinforcement learning (RL) has acquired a prominent position in health‐related sequential decision‐making problems, gaining traction as a valuable tool for delivering adaptive interventions (AIs). However, in part due to a poor synergy between the methodological and the applied communities, its real‐life application is still ...
Nina Deliu +2 more
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Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work
Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to sociolinguistic scholarship on register formations, digital technology, and labor by analyzing technofuturist registers—historically inherited, typified, and socially shared modes of speaking about technology. These registers create distinct modes of feeling, relating, idealizing, and desiring technology and its ...
Alfonso Del Percio
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Tilburg Law Review, 2014 Until recently, there was no regional civil society alliance dedicated exclusively to addressing statelessness. This changed with the advent of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), which has attracted fifty non-governmental organization (NGOs ...
Chris Nash
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Gilroy's Black Atlantic diaspora: climate displacement and rights‐bearing beyond the nation
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.Abstract Nationalism studies have only recently started to grapple with the Anthropocene as a foundational shift for the discipline. One of the effects of climate change is the forced displacement of large populations, and if access to rights cannot be ensured outside the structures of territorial sovereignty, this migration could easily translate into
Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten
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How does religion influence an emerging nationalism? Evidence from the Kurdish context in Turkey
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.Abstract Based on qualitative interviews with 66 Sunni Muslim Kurdish elites, this study reveals that Kurdish Islamic circles in Turkey are not monolithic, homogeneous or fixed. Some willingly or unwillingly maintain their Islamic identity as a primary reference point for self‐consciousness, motivation for collective action and political aspirations ...
Muttalip Caglayan
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