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Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

Polanyi on crisis: The United States, fascism and ecological break‐down

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses Karl Polanyi's understanding of the crisis inherent in liberal economics to analyse a contemporary crisis—Trump's global tariff agenda. It argues that Trump's tariff agenda conforms to Polanyi's interpretation of how the crisis of liberal economics can disintegrate into more malignant forces.
ROWAN ALCOCK
wiley   +1 more source

Acknowledging the past in the post‐truth era: Witch‐hunts, lawfare and the veterans’ amnesty in Northern Ireland

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Using the amnesty introduced by the Boris Johnson government designed to protect British army veterans who served in Northern Ireland as a case study, this article examines the intersection between law, politics and the legacy of conflict. The article first offers an account of the amnesty's genesis and traces the evolution and deployment of ...
KIERAN MCEVOY
wiley   +1 more source

Legal mobilization and anti‐fluoridation campaigning in post‐war Britain

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The fluoridation of public water supplies to improve dental health is often cited as an example of an ‘intractable controversy’ in public health, reflecting deeply held principles about rights and the public sphere. This article examines legal mobilization to prevent fluoridation in Britain, from the first pilot studies in the mid‐1950s ...
JANET WESTON
wiley   +1 more source

Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano, Hari Basnet, Anna Durrance‐Bagale, Natasha Howard   +3 more
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Links between trauma and psychotic symptoms: Integrating cognitive behavioural and neuropsychoanalytic models of psychosis

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Cognitive‐behavioural therapy for psychosis (CBTp) achieves small to modest effect sizes, which invites the question, ‘What clinical modifications might improve outcomes?’ This paper proposes an integration of CBTp with a neuropsychoanalytic approach that in clinical practice might extend the gains achieved by CBTp alone.
Michael Garrett
wiley   +1 more source

Pouvoir des mots, effet des sorts : quelques réflexions sur l’entrée en action sorcellaire

Sociologies, 2014
The mode of action of witchcraft, so well described by the ethnologist Jeanne Favret-Saada, is based upon the power of enunciation and its performative efficiency.
Laurence Kaufmann
doaj  

Before the Fire Burns: Trials for Superstition, Magic, and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Bologna

Religions
This article investigates the factors that provoked the trial and death sentence of four witches in Bologna in 1559. That is, it aims to elucidate how a witch hunt (albeit a small one) was triggered in a context where demonology was present, but the ...
Guido Dall’Olio
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Beyond Bandung and Belgrade: Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi, A Forgotten Indian Voice for World Peace

Peace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Dr. Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907–1966) was an Indian polymath best known for his intellectual contributions in a dizzyingly wide range of fields: mathematics, statistics, genetics, numismatics, history, and literature. His enduring reputation seems to have been posthumously sealed as the father of Marxist historiography in India. What has
Suchintan Das
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Origins of Witch Hunting

Studies in Business and Economics, 2018
A number of events taking place in the twenty-first century such as mass arrests of members of the Iran President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad's executive office accused of witchcraft make one doubt that witch hunt trials remained in the far Middle Ages.
Shmakov Aleksandr, Petrov Sergey
doaj   +1 more source