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Beyond the Rebel ‘Territorial Trap’: Governing Armed Sovereign Formations in Eastern Myanmar

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Territorial control is a central concept in the study of civil wars and rebel governance. However, scholars often fall into a ‘territorial trap’, assuming that territorial control is either an outcome of or a precondition for armed governance. Based on immersive fieldwork in eastern Myanmar, this article traces how different spatial orderings ...
Tony Neil, Saw Day Chit Htoo
wiley   +1 more source

‘Escaping Isn't for Everyone’: Kurdish Smugglers’ Navigational Tactics at Checkpoints in Iran

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Kurdish smugglers navigate state and insurgent checkpoints in the borderlands of western Iran. Drawing on ethnographic research, it analyses two key navigational tactics: persin, a form of negotiated passage involving transaction, recognition and the contingent toleration of authority; and jimi, rendered here as ...
Peyman Zinati
wiley   +1 more source

Downstream effects of post‐Dobbs abortion bans: Birth rates and WIC

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Abortion bans tend to impact the cohorts of women that are eligible for the supplemental nutrition program special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children the most. I use synthetic difference‐in‐differences models and 2017–2023 monthly state‐level data to estimate the change in birth rates and WIC participation that ...
Lilly Springer
wiley   +1 more source

China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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