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Rebuilding trust in national police: The case of the UN mission in Mali

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract International interventions often aim to reinforce both capacity as well as perceived legitimacy of national security forces. However, how peacekeeping operations manage to improve trust in the national police has received limited attention. In this article, we evaluate whether and how UN missions can (re‐)build trust in the national police ...
Nadine Ansorg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Democracies often struggle to contain police violence, which undermines the rule of law and reproduces inequality by targeting marginalized citizens. Yet, scholars have shown that repressive policing enjoys considerable public support. Focusing on Brazil, we demonstrate that attitudes toward police violence mirror polarization between left ...
Yanilda María González, Natán Skigin
wiley   +1 more source

Structure and agency in emancipatory reform: A blueprint from a Black union

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The National Labor Convention of 1869, the first of its kind for African American workers, yielded a grand strategy for achieving full emancipation, in which those long subjected to domination might attain durable independence. Drawing upon decades of Black republican thought, this agenda combined macro‐level reforms targeting agrarian and ...
Benjamin T. Lynerd
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Problems are Solvable Problems: Working Together to Prevent Health Inequities With a Structural Vulnerability Approach

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Anthropologists have long grappled with how to analyze the structural production of harm. Foundational formulations of structural violence demonstrated how social forces became embodied as disparities in health and survival but were difficult to operationalize across anthropological subdisciplines.
Meredith G. Marten   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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