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The Lessons from 1970s Price Controls

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract There has been a recent revival of interest in both voluntary and mandatory controls of prices to reduce the impact of inflation on low‐income groups. This article reviews the use of voluntary schemes of price restraint by the 1974–9 Labour government, in particular the ‘red triangle’ scheme in operation between February and August 1976.
Wyn Grant
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Torture and scepticism in Papua New Guinea witch hunts Torture et scepticisme dans les chasses aux sorcières en Papouasie‐Nouvelle‐Guinée

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Sweet Potato Breeding

, 2014
'Sweet Potato Breeding', 39pp, published August 1989, IRETA USP Alafua Campus - PO Private Bag Apia- WESTERN ...
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Staging friendship: towards an anthropology of everyday geopolitics in South Asia L'amitié mise en scène : vers une anthropologie de la géopolitique du quotidien en Asie du Sud

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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Rylands v Fletcher Redux: Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Rubis Bahamas Ltd v Russell is the most significant development in the law of Rylands v Fletcher for decades. Rejecting the view that the rule is merely a sub‐species of private nuisance, the Committee reconstructed it as an independent rule of strict liability governing harm caused by ...
Marco Cappelletti
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Hemipteran vectors of stylet‐borne plant viruses: Aphids lead the charge

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Among all sap‐feeding hemipterans, aphids stand out by far as the most important vectors of noncirculative plant viruses. Compared to whiteflies and mealybugs, aphids’ highly specialized stylet anatomy and distinct feeding behaviors contribute, together with other features of their biology, to their remarkable efficiency in transmitting stylet‐borne ...
Yu Fu, Stefano Colella, Marilyne Uzest
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A global assessment of the viruses transmitted by the peach‐potato aphid (Myzus persicae)

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
The viruses transmitted by Myzus persicae, including proportions by family, order and transmission type (persistent, semi‐persistent and non‐persistent), are provided. Latin binomials and common names are documented for each virus Virus presence in GB matches well with the rest of NW Europe, but with 25 exceptions.
James R. Bell, Yoann Bourhis
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Tracing Digital Foodwork in the Transnational Family Across Southeast Asia

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While increasing scholarly interest in ‘digital foodscapes’ has highlighted the politics of food‐based capitalism and the digitalisation of food in urban contexts, less attention has been paid to the everyday digital practices around foodwork in transnational households connecting migrants and their left‐behind families. The failure to account
Kristel Acedera, Brenda Yeoh, Theodora Lam   +2 more
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