Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
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Analyzing the domestic and international conflict in Syria: are there lessons from political science? [PDF]
Issue title: tribes & neighborhoods: the dynamics of subtletyThis article contributes to the discussion about opportunities for and barriers to domestically-driven political reform in the Syrian Arab Republic. The argument is put forward in five sections.
Dostal, Jörg Michael
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The recent refugees’ inflow and the life satisfaction of residents in Germany
While refugee inflows into Germany have typically been relatively moderate in recent decades, specific exogenous political events such as the Yugoslav civil war in the early 1990s, the intensifying of the Syrian civil war around 2015, and the war in ...
Elena Ambrosetti, Hans Dietrich
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Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup
ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
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War and Economics: Spanish Civil War Finances Revisited [PDF]
This paper reviews how the Spanish civil war was financed. We present new evidence to show that the two combatant parties, the Republican government and the Franco administration followed similar financial strategies. In both cases money creation, rather
Martin-Acena, Pablo +2 more
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ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
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Surgical restoration of drop-hand syndrome with tendon transfer in patients injured in the Syrian civil war. [PDF]
Ucak M.
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Citizenship Education‐Based Political Thinking Skills: Thinking About the Refugee Issue
ABSTRACT This study employs action research, a qualitative research design, to enhance political thinking skills (PTS) of social studies teacher candidates studying at Ege University in Türkiye. In this context, a needs analysis was conducted, leading to the redesign of the political literacy course.
Selda Şan
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The authoritarian castling of the Syrian regime: from popular uprising to civil war
Instead of hastening political change, the Syrian uprising has led to greater authoritarianism. At first, president Bashar al-Assad adopted various cosmetic reforms (a party law and constitutional referendum), which were designed more as a survival ...
Ignacio Álvarez-Ossorio Alvariño
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Struggling to Perform the State: The Politics of Bread in the Syrian Civil War. [PDF]
Ciro JosÉ M, Eng B.
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