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Indigenous Politics of Emancipatory Education in Bolivia: The Role of the Escuela-Ayllu of Warisata Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-20 Young Hyun Kim
This article analyzes how the Escuela-Ayllu of Warisata in Bolivia challenged the feudal system known as gamonalismo in the 1930s-1940s within the broader context of Indigenous struggle. It demonstrates that distinct currents of Indigenous education, including indigenismo, Caciques-Apoderados’ Centro Educativo de Aborígenes “Bartolomé de las Casas,” and Alcaldes Mayores Particulares’ escuelas particulares
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Resistance Strategies of Traditional Fishers in Their Struggle for Territory on Paraná’s Coastline in Brazil: A Categorization of the Conflict Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-19 Tiago Vernize Mafra, Natália Tavares de Azevedo
This article categorizes the resistance strategies used by traditional fishers on the coast of Paraná, Brazil, against local authorities that seek to deterritorialize their territories. Documentary sources and interviews with informants were used as part of this research. The local traditional fishing sector is not immune to external pressure. The resistance strategies of this group can be classified
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Rethinking the end of Christian Democracy Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Rosario Forlenza
This article is about the seminar held at Luiss University in Rome on 17 June 2024. The seminar focused on ‘The End of Christian Democracy: A New Direction for Research’ and was the first milestone and official launch of the PRIN research project ‘The End of Christian Democracy: The Collapse of a Political Dream – Voices from the Margins’, led by a consortium of four universities: Luiss, Roma Tre,
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Conceptualizing Mano Dura in Latin America Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Sebastian Cutrona, Lucia Dammert, Jonathan D. Rosen
Latin American governments are increasingly adopting mano dura initiatives to combat gangs, organized crime, and insecurity. While mano dura has been a concept of increasing empirical interest, there seems to be limited conceptual clarity about the wide spectrum of strategies developed to combat crime and associated fear. This article proposes a definition of mano dura that has three different dimensions
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Indigenous Autonomies in Latin America in the Face of Contemporary Capitalism: Overview, Perspectives, and Dilemmas: Part 2 Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Edgars Martínez Navarrete, Richard Stahler-Sholk
This is the second part of a two-part series, beginning with the July 2024 issue of this journal, exploring the diversity of Indigenous autonomies confronting neoliberal capitalism and their dilemmas and strategic choices.Esta es la segunda parte de una serie de dos, comenzando con el número correspondiente a julio de 2024 de la presente revista, que exploran la diversidad de autonomías indígenas frente
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“They Are Taking the Sea from us” - Maritime Extractivism, Dispossession and Resistance in Rural and Ethnic Communities of the Colombian Caribbean Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Ana Isabel Márquez Pérez
This article provides an overview of the impacts of the current Colombian extractivist development model on peasant, Afro-descendant, and Indigenous communities’ territorial seas ( maritorium) in the Colombian Caribbean. We reflect on the implications of a gradual penetration of concepts such as the blue economy in national public policy. The impacts of activities such as port infrastructure, oil drilling
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The production of climate security futures in the West African Sahel African Affairs (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Bruno Charbonneau
Much has been written and said about the consequences of climate change on security in the West African Sahel. Sceptics argue that claims about the links between global warming and conflict dynamics rest on limited evidence and questionable assumptions. Others work on the institutionalization and operationalization of climate security. This implementation seems inevitable, if slow, difficult, and at
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Knowledge on fire: the impact of conflict and violence on education in Afghanistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Arif Sahar
This article examines the impact of armed conflict on the education system in Afghanistan between 2001–2021. Using critical ethnography as its main research approach, the article draws on the perce...
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Sowing Indigenous Autonomy: Building a Common Political-Ethical Territory of Struggle with Zapatista Seed Pedagogics Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Charlotte María Sáenz
This article inquires into the workings of Zapatista Seed Pedagogics’ (ZSP) building of a political-ethical commons outside the movement’s autonomous territories. Parting from a previous theorization of ZSP as a decolonizing educational process, this writing draws on interviews with external activists of neozapatista networks who have encountered and/or accompanied the movement in the last three decades
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Raising the Arandora Star: history and afterlife of the Second World War sinking Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Terri Colpi
Since the sinking of SS Arandora Star 84 years ago, the memory of this tragic wartime incident has been strongly held and developed within the British Italian community, moving through several phases, from oblivion to recognition and commemoration to a more recent growing awareness in a wider mnemonic community of interest. The aim of this special issue is threefold: to raise further the profile of
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Enemy Aliens: internment and deportation policy in Great Britain, September 1939–June 1940 Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Rachel Pistol
During the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and Italians living in Great Britain were designated as ‘enemy aliens’ and consequently interned. The worsening situation on the continent in May and June 1940 stirred up hysteria that spies and saboteurs could be amongst the Germans and Austrians. Mass arrests started in May 1940, and Italians were soon caught up in the detentions when Mussolini declared
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Hunters and hunted: the sinking of SS Arandora Star within the wider context of the Battle of the Atlantic 1939–1940 Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Robert Rumble
On 2 July 1940, the ocean liner SS Arandora Star was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-47, with the loss of around 805 lives; over half of these were British-Italian civilian internees. This article approaches the event from the arena of Second World War military history, contextualising the sinking within the early Battle of the Atlantic. In so doing, it shifts the customary focus away from
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Deathscape, materiality and memorialisation: Arandora Star remembrance in Scotland Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Terri Colpi
This article progresses Second World War historiography of ‘enemy alien’ internment, especially of the SS Arandora Star, sunk in 1940 with a high loss of Italian civilian lives. Employing a new paradigm, that of the deathscape, defined as a topography of death and the practices that surround it, this investigation recontextualises Arandora Star remembrance in Scotland. Ambiguous loss, complicated grieving
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Oral histories of Italians in the North-East of England: the sinking of the Arandora Star Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Simona Palladino
Within British-Italian history of the Second World War, there are several questions surrounding the sinking of the SS Arandora Star, on 2 July 1940, which still remain problematic. Nevertheless, this tragedy continues to play a prominent role in the heritage and memories of the Anglo-Italian communities in the UK. This article focuses on the experiences and memories of the Arandora Star from the perspective
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Shades of complicity: archives of the ‘implicated subject’ Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Derek Duncan
Knowledge of the Arandora Star is no longer limited to members of the UK's historic Italian community but is shared by a much larger constituency thanks to the greater accessibility of historical documents relating to the sinking of the ship, and to the substantial volume of new creative work inspired by it. This article examines this expansion of historical memory by following two discrete but entangled
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Arandora Star: analysis and ‘Embarkation Listing’ of Italians Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Alfonso Pacitti
This paper critically reviews and examines the available data concerning Italians embarked on the SS Arandora Star on 30 June 1940. It encompasses their fate on 2 July when the ship was sunk, their subsequent journeys and the sources used to verify the conclusions. The principal aim is to establish, as far as is possible, the precise number, correct names and other details of those who were embarked
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Self-government, Social Change, and Conflict in Oxchuc, Chiapas: The Long Road of Internal War in an Indigenous Mexican Municipality Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Jesús Solís Cruz, Manuel Cosh Pale
During the 2015 post-electoral conflict in the municipality of Oxchuc, Chiapas, came the demand for the election of municipal authorities through its own internal regulatory system. After going through several phases, proponents of change in electoral proceedings obtained legal recognition for Indigenous self-government. This achievement led to an interlude in the long history of political conflict
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Reconversion or Exclusion? The Effects of Blue Economy Policies on Semi-industrial and Artisanal Fishing in Puntarenas, Costa Rica Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Alexa Obando Campos, Sara Latorre
Although trawling stopped definitively in 2019 in Costa Rica, there is an ongoing debate regarding the broader policies derived from the Blue Economy. These have focused on the productive conversion of the fleet (salaried fishers) toward more profitable activities related to tuna fishing, aquaculture, and tourism. This paper takes a political economy approach to oceans and livelihoods, analyzing how
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Indigenous Autonomies in Latin America in the Face of Contemporary Capitalism: Overview, Perspectives and Dilemmas, Part 1 Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Edgars Martínez Navarrete, Richard Stahler-Sholk
The contemporary phase of capitalism has led to an intensification of the process of “accumulation by dispossession,” which entails a growing conflict between territorial displacement and indigenous resistances. These conflicts manifest in projects for autonomy that take on diverse forms. Here, we address the origins of these various concepts of autonomy while focusing on their corresponding dilemmas
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Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın – an introduction to his life and works Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Syed Tanvir Wasti
Hüseyin Cahit Yalçın (1875 − 1957) was a prominent and prolific writer who, in 1908, was also the first journalist elected to the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies. He was a member of the Committee of Un...
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Routine Losses, Continuous Improvement, and Warming Oceans: Risk and Uncertainty on Chile’s Aquaculture Frontier Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Eric H. Thomas
For several decades, proponents of aquaculture have framed the industry as a critical element of the emerging blue economy. In Aysén, Chile, however, environmental crises have undermined the industry’s claims to sustainability. Invoking “continuous improvement,” aquaculture operators manage ecological, economic, and political risks. This requires shared understandings of risk and uncertainty in which
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The role of historical knowledge among contemporary Druze in Lebanon: applying anthropology to preserve intangible cultural heritage Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Chad Radwan
The millennium-long history of the Druze continues to shape members’ sense of ethnoreligious particularism and relations with other groups in Lebanon. Their contemporary heritage narrative and proc...
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Understanding Turkey’s attitude towards the dispute in Palestine from late 1947 to early 1949 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-28 Selim Sezer
Turkey was among the countries that refused the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine which was put to vote on 29 November 1947, and this was celebrated by many Arab governments. Nevertheless...
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Blue Economies and Ocean Grabbing in Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-28 Nemer E. Narchi, Gustavo G. M. Moura, George Leddy
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The paradoxes of Vietnam’s ties to India India Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Jitendra Nath Misra
India’s amiable history with Vietnam began with peaceful migration to Southeast Asia from the beginning of the Common Era and discovery of new land and sea routes. Yet, modern Vietnamese consider I...
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Government formation in presidentialism: Disentangling the combined effects of pre-electoral coalitions and legislative polarization Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Lucas Couto
Recent research has shed light on the impact of pre-electoral coalitions on government formation in presidential democracies. However, the fact that pre-electoral coalitions are not automatically transformed into coalition cabinets has often gone under the radar. In this article, I argue that the importance of pre-electoral pacts for government formation depends on the degree of legislative polarization
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Browsing and believing: divergent effects of internet use on government trust in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Valery Dzutsati, Dinara Rakhmatullayeva
How does the use of the internet by citizens affect their trust in government and political participation? Previous research has yielded conflicting results. We hypothesize that in authoritarian co...
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Deciphering dictators’ discourse on Indigenous democracy: a case of Karimov’s Uzbekistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Assel Tutumlu, Burak Önemli, Ilyas Rustemov
Why do dictators ‘indigenize’ democracy? This article analyses discourses on democracy in a consolidated authoritarian regime to show how it assists in authoritarian regime-building. The article sh...
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The Arabian Mission and education in Bahrain: ‘encounter’ and ‘resistance’, 1892–1917 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Khaled Albateni
This article examines the encounters between the Arabian Mission and the people of Bahrain from 1892 to 1917. The Arabian Mission which began as an American missionary project, established a statio...
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South(s) of the South(s): race, caporalato, and the ‘Southern Question’ renewed in contemporary Italian border-making Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Margaret Renata Neil, Federica M. Cerruti
In contemporary Italy, media and public actors frame the exploitation of migrant agricultural labourers as the outcome of caporalato. This concept – translated as labour brokerage or gang mastery – connotes the violent treatment of workers and their exploitation by powerful individuals, who are today increasingly racialised and understood as being Black and immigrants. However, our fieldwork in Apulia
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Participatory clientelism: A socio-spatial approach to popular politics in Buenos Aires Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Sam Halvorsen, Sebastián Mauro
What is the relationship between clientelism and political participation in popular urban neighborhoods? This article addresses the question based on qualitative research in two popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, drawing on participant observation and interviews with residents, activists, and party brokers. Adding to a growing literature on “participatory clientelism,” we argue for greater attention
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Race, Inequality, and Political Trust in Latin America Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Castellar Granados, Francisco Sánchez
During the last decades, political distrust has seemingly become a common trend across Latin American democracies, however, differences in the levels of confidence among groups have also been identified. This article considers the potential effects of ethno-racial structures and their interactions with other forms of socioeconomic inequalities on political trust. Building on data from four waves of
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The Unbearable Uncertainty of Being on the Front Street-level Military in the Mexican War on Drugs Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Alejandro Pocoroba, Laura H. Atuesta, Javier Treviño-Rangel
Since the so-called war on drugs began in Mexico in 2006, the military has been the leading actor in charge of the government’s public security policy, undertaking tasks that should be carried out by the police. Analyses of this security strategy are based on quantitative methods and have focused on its results: e.g., an increase in the homicide rate or the committing of human rights violations. In
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The hidden caliphate: Sufi saints beyond the Oxus and Indus Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Murid Shah Nadiri
Published in Central Asian Survey (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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From Cadarese to Morasco: the creation of a Fascist hydroscape in alpine space after 1928 Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Sebastian De Pretto
This article explores the socio-ecological impacts of Fascist hydropower extraction in the Alpine valleys of Italy, focusing on the Toce river basin during the interwar period. It investigates the conflicts between local communities and hydropower initiatives by private energy companies under Fascism, thereby revealing the regime's communication strategies rooted in its political ecology. By analysing
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Italy between liberalism and democracy: universal suffrage and the 1913 elections Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Goffredo Adinolfi
In 1912, the Italian parliament approved the extension of male suffrage, making it ‘almost’ universal. This process of revising representation transformed the very idea of the relationship between citizens and the state and shaped a profoundly different Italy. The aim of this article is to trace both the process leading to the approval of universal suffrage and its impact on the party system. With
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Narrating COVID and captivity in Italy: ‘no prison’ writings and the restorative potential of the penitentiary Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Monica Jansen, Stefania Basilisco
Italy's prison overcrowding became world news in early March 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak sparked riots in prisons across the country, causing the death of 13 inmates. As a crisis narrative, the COVID-19 pandemic made visible the deep, ongoing crisis of Italy's prison system and disclosed new conditions for critical thought on the restorative potential of the penitentiary system. This article first
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Media Credibility and Voter Penalization of Corrupt Politicians in Latin America Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Carmen van Klaveren, Syed Mansoob Murshed, Elissaios Papyrakis
There has been a significant growth of social media as a means to inform oneself about politics. This article explores the consequences of this trend on the credibility audiences attribute to news exposing corrupt politicians and on their willingness to penalize the exposed politicians in elections. The study focuses on ten Latin American cities and employs a randomized control trial using experimental
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The formation of the UAE: state-building and Arab nationalism in the Middle East Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-15 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 6, 2024)
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Two decades of women’s underrepresentation in public service leadership: the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Abdul Basir Hamidi, Ida Widianingsih, Heru Nurasa
During the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (2001–2021), the expected representation of Afghan women in leadership and executive roles was not achieved. This study examines factors contributing to t...
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Islam and ethnic tolerance: assessing Kyrgyz’ Muslim religiosity and acceptance of Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Alisher Khamidov, David B. Nolle
Using a national opinion survey conducted in 2009 in Kyrgyzstan, we focused on responses from ethnic Kyrgyz respondents in the south where major riots between Kyrgyz and Uzbeks occurred in 1990 and...
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Girls’ education and success in Azerbaijan: comparative document analysis Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Gunel Alasgarova, Naila Peken
This study undertakes a comprehensive examination of female academic success in Azerbaijan, with a particular emphasis on general education and higher education, against the backdrop of global effo...
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Using Written Consent Forms When Conducting Non-Elite Qualitative Research: Reflections from Zambia Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Robert Macdonald
Many ethics review bodies now routinely recommend the use of written consent forms as the default method of obtaining informed consent, including for research conducted in African countries. Althou...
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Policing and citizen trust in Kenya: How community policing shapes local trust-building and collaboration African Affairs (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Patrick Mutahi, Kristine Höglund, Emma Elfversson
In contexts of high insecurity and mistrust in the police, how and why do local residents still choose to collaborate with the police, and what is the role of community policing in such considerations? Research on policing in Africa has emphasized the structural and macropolitical barriers to effective police reform, including institutionalized cultures of impunity and corruption. Less attention, however
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Book Review: Liberation Theology and Theology of Entitlement in a Cross-Political Cultural Context Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Jiji Chen
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Law, society and corruption lessons from the Central Asian context Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Timur Dadabaev
Published in Central Asian Survey (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Courtney Freer
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 6, 2024)
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The birth of Ottoman penal biopolitics: motherhood, pregnancy and child-protection in the criminal justice system (1850–1918) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Gizem Sivri
This article presents a broad analysis of the Ottoman penal policies concerning the tolerant and clement punitive sanctions for mother offenders during the late Ottoman era. It scrutinizes the pena...
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Rising to the challenge: A systematic review of the development of environmental justice in India India Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Ubaid Sidique, Khurram Zaidi
Environmental justice has experienced rapid expansion in its scope and conceptualization in the last three decades. Literature on environmental justice narrates how individuals and communities mobi...
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Recent Trends in Mass-Level Ideological Polarization in Latin America Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Paolo Moncagatta, Pedro Silva
This article offers an analysis of the changes in mass-level ideological polarization in Latin America. It provides a cross-national, region-wide assessment of polarization dynamics using survey data on left-right ideological identities. A novel indicator for measuring ideological polarization at the individual level is proposed, which is more compatible with theoretical conceptualizations of ideological
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Disjointed Polarization in Chile’s Enduring Crisis of Representation Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Juan Pablo Luna
This analytical essay proposes the notion of disjointed polarization to characterize the nature of polarization in contemporary Chile. In disjointed polarization, elite-level polarization does not lead to a successful electoral realignment. Disjointed polarization is thus consistent with a long-lasting crisis of representation in which a serial disconnect between politicians (pursuing different polarizing
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Tweeting Antagonism: (De)Polarizing Rhetoric and Tone in Colombia’s 2022 Presidential Campaign Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Laura Gamboa, Sandra Botero, Lisa Zanotti
Polarizing rhetoric and negative tone are thought to generate more attention on social media. We seek to describe and analyze how presidential candidates in Colombia’s 2022 election deployed (de)polarizing rhetoric and tone, around what topics, and with what effects. We analyze the tweets (and corresponding engagement) of the four leading candidates during the campaign. Tone behaves as expected. Negatively
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Latin America’s Polarization in Comparative Perspective Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Jennifer McCoy
Political polarization is a systemic-level and multifaceted process that severs cross-cutting ties and shifts perceptions of politics to a zero-sum game. When it turns pernicious, political actors and supporters view opponents as an existential threat and the capacity of democratic institutions to process political conflict breaks down. The article identifies four common fault lines of polarization
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Book Review Commemorating 50 Years of Chile’s Unidad Popular: A Dream Denied, An Enduring Wound, An Unfinished Struggle Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Rosalind Bresnahan
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The Faces of the Capitalist Modernization of Fishing in the Far South of Brazil from a Perspective of Socioenvironmental Oceanography (1940s to 1990s) Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Gustavo Goulart Moreira Moura, Antonio Carlos Sant’Ana Diegues
The goal of this article is to analyze the effects of capitalist modernization on the fishing industry located in Brazil’s far south from a perspective of socioenvironmental oceanography. Socioenvironmental oceanography builds on the contributions of historical materialism that prioritizes the study of the material foundations that support the process of capitalist accumulation. Within this perspective
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For the 50th Anniversary of Latin American Perspective Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Michael Lowy
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Changing patterns of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey (1865–2020) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Kerem Gabriel Öktem
Who is protected by social security? This article explores this question by tracing the chronological sequence of inclusion into old age protection in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. The focus lies ...
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Strengthening academia: embracing an open dialogue on fieldwork in the authoritarian states of Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Anna Jordanova
Students embarking on fieldwork across Eurasia, Africa and Latin America will encounter various political practices of regimes and conflicts involving varying levels of open violence. Although they...