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FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

INSTRUMENTE JURIDICE ŞI ACTIVITĂŢI PRIVIND NEPROLIFERAREA ARMELOR DE DISTRUGERE ÎN MASĂ

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2019
Odată cu crearea armelor de distrugere în masă (nucleare, biologice, chimice) a apărut necesitatea universalizării sistemului de tratate internaţionale în vederea interzicerii proliferării acestui tip de arme.
Victoria ARHILIUC
doaj  

Framework for Analyzing the Future Threat of WMD Terrorism

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2012
This article examines theories of practical and strategic constraints that collectively explain why so few terrorist groups in history have crossed (or attempted to cross) the WMD threshold.
James J.F. Forest
doaj   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Were WMDs the Real Issue?: The International Community versus Iraq 1991-2003 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In Resolution 687, after the Gulf War of 1991, the United Nations Security Council unanimously demanded that Iraq get rid of all weapons of mass destruction, and imposed economic sanctions as well as an intrusive inspection regime.
Braut-Hegghammer, Målfrid, Riste, Olav
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Sperm Transfer Under Behavioral and Morphological Constraints in the Orb‐Web Spider Genus Argiope

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
The polygamous mating system of the orb‐web spider genus Argiope provides a model to study the evolution of sperm transfer under morphological and behavioral constraints. This helps us to understand how male and female behavioral and morphological reproductive traits influence sperm transfer.
Chathuranga Dharmarathne   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pre-emptive Defence against International Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Reasoned Critique [PDF]

open access: yesRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2007
The 9-11 terrorist attacks had serious repercussions on the world stage, giving rise, among other effects, to a protracted debate on the conditions in which the use of force to fight against terrorism might be justified or not under international law. In
Yolanda Gamarra Chopo
doaj  

Nuclear Imminence in Contemporary Indo‐Pakistani Conflict [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
November of 2008 saw frightening attacks on India’s foreigners. Over the course of three days, hostages had been taken, hotels and restaurants in India’s busiest city of Mumbai were burned and English, American and Canadian citizens lay among the nearly ...
Tobin, Anna K.
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Delivery of Surgical Care by Local Actors in Chronic Conflict Settings: The Example of Bor State Hospital, South Sudan

open access: yes
World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Majok Philips Matiop   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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