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The informal prisoner justice system: Classification, identification, and punishment of sex offenders behind bars

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on 576 interviews with incarcerated men and 131 correctional staff across five Western Canadian prisons, we reconceptualize the prison code as subcultural law, documenting the “informal prisoner justice system” as its enforcement arm. Although scholars have treated the code primarily as cultural values prescribing loyalty, silence, and
Luca Berardi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

From courtyard to atrium: spatial differentiation in the spontaneous evolution of vernacular architecture and its response to geo-climate

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
Vernacular architecture is deeply rooted in specific regions and evolves under urbanization while maintaining a close connection to the natural environment.
Fan Peng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Theoretical Design Framework of Contemporary Vernacular Architecture Based on a Scoping Review of the Best Practices Worldwide

open access: yesBuildings
This paper reviews the development of vernacular architecture design and practices worldwide and then focuses on Chinese rural development. It explores the evolution of vernacular architecture and related concepts from a longitudinal perspective, and ...
Nan Yang, Bing Chen, Junjie Xi
doaj   +1 more source

Architecture and vernacular architecture

open access: yes, 2019
Vernacular Architecture has reached its 50th year, and during that time has established itself as the leading UK journal devoted to the study of traditional buildings. This collection of short essays looks back at how the subject has changed, the extent to which it has responded to or helped shape new thinking, and the challenges students of vernacular
openaire   +1 more source

Developing Predictive and Explainable Models for Cryptocurrency Delistings: A Case Study of Binance Exchange

open access: yesAsia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops an explainable machine learning model to predict cryptocurrency delistings using Binance data. It combines quantitative indicators (price, volume) with qualitative data from real‐time news and Reddit. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is used to extract topic trends and community reactions, which are transformed into time ...
Sungju Yang, Hunyeong Kwon
wiley   +1 more source

What It Was Like, What Happened, What It Is Like Now: Liminal Spaces and the Pedagogy of Recovery

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addiction recovery is frequently interpreted through biomedical or punitive frameworks that overlook its cultural, ritual, and pedagogical dimensions. This article offers a theoretical and interpretive analysis of peer‐led, meeting‐based recovery communities in North America, particularly those organized around mutual‐aid traditions such as ...
Patrick L. Pellett
wiley   +1 more source

Antinomies of Nativism: Understanding Decoloniality Theory's Affinities with the Global Far Right

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the peculiar conjuncture of decolonial theory and contemporary far‐right ideology. It argues that their shared fixation on the dualism of native and settler is immanent to the development of advanced capitalism, particularly the sharpening of its contradictory tendency to undermine labour as the source of value, and to ...
Aylin Bademsoy, Neil Larsen
wiley   +1 more source

Inverted Eurocentrism: The Consumption of Decolonization in the Global North and a Radical Decolonization Agenda

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
wiley   +1 more source

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