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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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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 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 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...
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“Life Is Losing its Meaning”: The Experiences of Fishing Communities During the Oil Disaster and COVID-19 Pandemic in Pernambuco, Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Cristiano Wellington Noberto Ramalho, Andreia Patrícia dos Santos
The goal of this article is to examine how the confluence of the oil disaster and the new coronavirus pandemic had a negative impact on the work and livelihood of artisanal fishing communities in Pernambuco within a short span of time. Eighty people were interviewed (60 of them fishers) along the entire coastline of Pernambuco from October 2019 to February 2020, and through remote surveys from March
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Land, Labour and Liberation: The Political Ecology of Southern Africa’s Unresolved Tensions Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Alex Beresford
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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The environment, capital and the politics of race in South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Tholithemba Lorenzo Ndaba
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Letting subalterns speak: localising the Sharpeville massacre Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Mesrob Vartavarian
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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How parties impact the trajectories of federalism: India India Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Ashutosh Kumar
The article examines the interface between the party system and the trajectories of center-state interactions in independent India. It argues that the Constituent Assembly put in place a strong-cen...
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Women’s dance traditions of Uzbekistan: legacy of the silk road Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Leora Eisenberg
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 3, 2024)
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Forgotten project of a private agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, Uzbekistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Akifumi Shioya
This article re-evaluates a failed large irrigation enterprise and agricultural plantation in the Khanate of Khiva, an Imperial Russian protectorate in contemporary Uzbekistan, during the 1910s. Co...
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Stigmatized Professions and Ambiguous Subjects: Methodological Reflections from Sanitation Workers and Opioid Consumption in Sierra Leone African Affairs (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-10 Ibrahim Bakarr Bangura, Nelly Leblond, Julian Hugo Walker
This paper explores ethical dilemmas in relation to practices of alcohol and drug consumption in the workplace by manual pit emptiers in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Based on observations and interviews with workers, we come to understand the consumption of painkillers and gin as a mechanism to alleviate stigma, rather than an issue of addiction. Indeed, the consumption of psychoactive substances before
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The Joy of Work in an Editorial Collective Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-08
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Our Mission as a Journal Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Ronald H. Chilcote
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Comment on LAP Anniversary Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Joel Edelstein
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Ottoman diplomacy in Greece: the case of Syros, 1830–1900 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Berke Torunoğlu
The island of Syros in the Cyclades almost spontaneously emerged in 1830 as a prominent transit and trade hub for Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The present work is an attempt to conduct a deductiv...
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From an arasta bazaar to a piyasa street: the transformation of Direklerarası in Ottoman Istanbul from the 1720s to the 1920s Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Fatma Tunç Yaşar, Ahmet Yaşar
This article examines the transformation of Direklerarası Street, located on Istanbul’s historical Divanyolu, from the 1720s to the 1920s. Originally built in 1729 as an arasta to generate revenue ...
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Extension, renewal or resurgence? The anti-constitutional argument of a cleric in 1920s Iran Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Denis Hermann
This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the complexity and diversity of anti-constitutionalist thought developed by the ulama by synthesizing the arguments of Shaykh Marandi (d...
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Reflections on Latin American Perspectives Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Emir Sader
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African relations with Eastern Europe, 1950s–90s Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Colin Darch
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Comment on Norma Chinchilla’s Essay Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Verónica Silva
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The varying levels of contrasting adaptation in Central Asia’s climate change politics Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Morena Skalamera
Central Asia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. There is, however, a lack of research on how local businesses, political elites and the general public perceive the need for comp...
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Capitalism as Religion as a Tribute to Latin American Perspectives’ 50-year Anniversary: Walter Benjamin and Liberation Theology Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Daniela Issa
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The Agrarian Question in Contemporary Latin America and the Pink Tide’s Limits: A Critical Approach Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Joana Salém Vasconcelos
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Latin American Perspectives at 50! Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Alex Dupuy
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Between ‘info-killers’ and ‘spies’: three strategies for interviewing government officials across Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Bakhytzhan Kurmanov
Researchers conducting politically sensitive studies in the authoritarian region of Central Asia face significant obstacles beyond government control over knowledge production. These challenges inc...
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Comment on Clara Irazabal’s Article Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Thomas Angotti
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Comments on Kemy Oyarzun’s article Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Daniela Issa
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De la Protesta a la Propuesta Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Tamar Diana Wilson
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Latin American Perspectives: A Personal Reflection Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Jean Hostetler-Diaz
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The struggle for water as a source for territorial re-existence in Chile: Rethinking the agrarian question in Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Alexander Panez, Pablo Mansilla-Quiñones, Jorge Olea Peńaloza
Water is a key challenge when it comes to the Latin American agrarian issue, and its lack threatens rural living. The Chilean case is emblematic of this issue, given the implications of neoliberalism and its consequences on environmental injustice. Social movements are now adding the issue of water to their historical demands for land and territory. This paper addresses what features the water struggle
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How Latin American Immigrants Are Transforming and Transnationalizing the Americas Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Susan Eckstein
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50TH-43: Dependency, the Pink Tide and Latin American Perspectives Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Tom Angotti
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Latin American Perspectives: The Early Years Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Nora Hamilton
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Indigenous Movements in Ecuador Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Marc Becker
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Magnifying the Intersectional Lens in Urban Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Paul Dosh
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Book Review: Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Thomas Patriota
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Re-reading LAP’s Genealogy with Feminist Eyes Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Sara C. Motta