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Imperialism after decolonization? British relations with Bahrain from the withdrawal East of Suez to the Iranian Revolution Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Simon C. Smith
There is a growing consensus that the end of empire did not necessarily equate with a severing of imperial ties. Some historians have even argued that there was a shift from formal to informal empi...
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Ambivalent heritage: tourism, weddings and pilgrimage in Hisor, Tajikistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Benjamin Gatling
This article considers the social and symbolic work of Hisor as a site of Tajikistan’s cultural heritage. Hisor carries with it an array of meanings and represents a convergence of multiple spheres...
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50TH: Curating Critical Progressive History for Latin American Studies Scholars: A Distinctive Journal and Archive Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Rhonda L. Neugebauer
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LAP 50th Anniversary Reflection Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Jonathan Ritter
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The Life and World of Francis Rodd, Lord Rennell (1895-1978): Geography, Money and War Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Richard Hammond
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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'Close but no Cigar’: Hamas’s psychological warfare against Israel between 2014 and 2023 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Nesya Rubinstein-Shemer
This essay represents the continuation of my research, on the Hamas Organization’s novel methods of psychological warfare against Israel. The previous article, which covered the period between 2007...
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The search for economic and military aid in the shadow of crises: Turkish-American relations during İnönü governments (1961–1965) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Murat Kasapsaraçoğlu
The leader of Republican People’s Party (RPP), İsmet İnönü, formed three governments between 1961 and 1965. Turkey faced several political, economic, social and military challenges in this period. ...
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UAE book review Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Navigating complex narratives: understanding challenges of Russian-related research in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Sanat Kushkumbayev, Aigerim Bakhtiyarova
The idea for this research note emerged in the aftermath of a survey that we conducted with Kazakhstani experts about their perceptions of the Western and Russian vectors in Kazakhstan’s foreign po...
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Qazaqstan. Kazakhstan. قازقستان : labirinty sovremennogo postkolonialnogo diskursa [Qazaqstan, Kazakhstan, قازقستان : labyrinths of a modern post-colonial discourse] Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Kamila Kovyazina
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2024)
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The emotional sight of neoliberalized port infrastructure in the city of Poti, Georgia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Boris Komakhidze
This article traces an ethnography-based analysis of the historical Poti port as it has been socially imagined through the lenses of ideological transformations. Situated at a nexus of Black Sea tr...
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Politics and science in South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Jacob Dlamini
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Apartheid’s hidden histories Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Jeff Peires
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Sewing the Revival Tents: Black Women’s Christian Organisations and the Public Duties of Home-Making in Early-Apartheid East London, 1950–1963 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Katie Carline
This article examines the history of black women’s Christian activity in the East Bank location of East London (also known as Duncan Village) in the early years of apartheid. Oral, textual and phot...
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Editorial Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Colin Bundy
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Introduction: Histories of Protest in East London and the Eastern Cape, South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Mignonne Breier
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Populism and the Africanists in East London in the 1940s and Early 1950s Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Leslie Bank
This article considers popular political mobilisation in East London prior to the launch of the Defiance Campaign in the city in 1952, which ignited a racial war. It suggests that the failure of th...
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Forgotten Bodies or Silenced Voices? Recasting Women’s Voices at the Bantu Square Massacre of East London, 1952 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Hlengiwe Ndlovu
Narratives of political and community struggles often privilege the role of men, painting them as the faces of the struggle. Yet, women have been (and continue to be) active participants who have f...
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Proving a Secret Massacre: The Case of South Africa’s Bloody Sunday, East London, 9 November 1952 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Mignonne Breier
When the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of 1996/97 was tasked with investigating gross human rights violations from 1 March 1960 to 1994, there was a presumption that apart...
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The Eastern Cape and East London: African Protest and the Historical Context of Bloody Sunday 1952 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 William Beinart, Colin Bundy
This concluding overview explores themes which provide background to the four articles in the part special issue on popular protest in the Eastern Cape, with a special focus on East London. As thes...
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Settling ‘Dagga’? Shifting Frontiers of Cannabis Knowledge and Governance in South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Thembisa Waetjen, Perside Ndandu
After the South African War (1899–1902), state-makers’ efforts to control ‘dagga’ was controversial on several fronts. But ‘dagga’ also proved a moving target for official classification. Was it a ...
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Memories of an ambiguous federation legacy Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Euan Nisbet
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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The politics of faith Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Jean Comaroff
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 5-6, 2023)
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Cold War dilemmas and regional interests: the acknowledgment of Egypt’s King, Farouk I, as ‘King of Egypt and Sudan’ by Greece (October 1951–August 1952) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Spyridon Bouzoukis
The question of Farouk’s title is considered an important part of Anglo-Egyptian rivalry. However, the existing literature neglects the issue’s possible impact on third countries. The purpose of th...
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Gendering the Muslim Brotherhood: the social network of the Muslim Sisters in twentieth-century Egypt Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Noa Davidyan
This article sheds light on the activity and thinking of women belonging to the Muslim Sisters Section within the Muslim Brothers movement (MB) in twentieth-century Egypt. While the MB has received...
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Anti-corruption Audits and Citizens’ Trust in Audit and Auditee Institutions Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Letícia Barbabela
Anticorruption audits may deter corruption and signal to citizens that institutions are proactively combating it. However, by detecting and reporting corruption, audits might also unintentionally erode trust in institutions. Therefore, the impact of audits potentially hinges on whether they uncover corruption. Audit institutions, not implicated in the corruption they uncover, might be less likely to
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Foreign fighters and international peace: joining global jihad and marching back home Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Edward Lemon
Published in Central Asian Survey (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Linguistic compatriots’: on the relationship between Tajik and Judeo-Tajik language and literature Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Thomas Loy
This paper follows the traces of Tajik and Judeo-Tajik literature in the early Soviet period and compares some prominent works and biographies of Tajik and Bukharan Jewish writers. In the 1920s and...
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Navigating tradition: agency of young urban women in Kyrgyzstan during wedding negotiations and early marriage Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Iuliia Iui-ki, Elena Kosterina
Daughters-in-law (or kelins1 in the Kyrgyz language) have traditionally been portrayed in Kyrgyz society as holding a low social status, and are commonly subject to oppressive and negative practice...
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Iranian, Afghan or Central Asian? Patterns of mobility among Persianate Jews in the 19th and early 20th centuries Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Ariane Sadjed
Focusing on aspects of mobility and daily life, this paper aims to highlight the history of nineteenth century Persian Jews as one of interconnectedness, but also separation. Various forms of inter...
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The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Robert Steele
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘I became an Uzbek’: Jewish-Uzbek encounters in World War Two evacuation Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Leora Eisenberg
Examinations of WWII-era Jewish evacuation to Central Asia traditionally focus either on the elite or the common people, subsequently concluding that the locale either fostered interethnic harmony ...
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Nigerian youth engagement in violent electoral environments: Political apathy or ‘Constrained Optimism’? African Affairs (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Justine Davis, Megan Turnbull
How do young citizens engage with politicians and their political environment in contexts where elections are frequently affected by violence? We explore this question through focus group discussions (FGDs) in Nigeria, a country with high rates of election violence. We argue that young voters in violent electoral environments operate with ‘constrained optimism’, where they perceive low government responsiveness
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Introduction: The New Polarization in Latin America Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Rodolfo Sarsfield, Paolo Moncagatta, Kenneth M. Roberts
Mounting evidence suggests that Latin American democracies are characterized by politics and societies becoming more divisive, confrontational, and polarized. This process, which we define here as the “new polarization” in Latin America, seems to weaken the ability of democratic institutions to manage and resolve social and political conflicts. Although recent scholarship suggests that polarization
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Strategic Resources for Drug Trafficking Organizations and the Geography of Violence: Evidence from Mexico Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Martín Macías-Medellín, Aldo F. Ponce
This article helps understand why locations close to strategic infrastructure to transport illegal drugs (seaports, airports, highways, and US ports of entry along the Mexico-US border) or to increase income (pipelines) experience different levels of violence due to DTOs operations. Our theory breaks down the impact of the geographical distance to these facilities on violence into two effects. The
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La Via Campesina: A Digital Toolkit for Peasants’ Rights and Global Climate Justice Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Kristi M. Wilson, Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli
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Spring 1923: Turkey’s failed constitutional moment Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Ogan Yumlu
This paper focuses on a specific historical period that preceded the proclamation of the Turkish Republic and tries to re-interpret its meaning for the development of liberal democracy in Turkey. A...
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Mobilizing against Democratic Backsliding: What Motivates Protestors in Central and Eastern Europe? East European Politics and Societies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Courtney Blackington, Antoaneta L. Dimitrova, Iulia Ionita, Milada Anna Vachudova
Several central and eastern European countries have experienced democratic erosion of different kinds. While the Czech Republic and Poland have faced democratic backsliding, for example, others, such as Bulgaria and Romania, are better characterized as struggling with democratic stagnation. Regardless of the type of democratic erosion, robust protest movements have challenged democratic erosion. What
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‘Palermo is a mosaic’: cosmopolitan rhetoric in the capital of Sicily Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Sean Wyer
The political messaging of Leoluca Orlando, who served five terms as mayor of Sicily's capital, Palermo (most recently, until 2022), articulates a cosmopolitan vision of local identity. Orlando seeks to emphasise Palermo's ‘tolerant’ values, invoking the city's history to foster this image, as well as using a variety of rhetorical strategies. He portrays Palermo as having a true ‘essence’, which is
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‘Regionalism’ and its contestations: changing political discourse in contemporary Assam India Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Partha Pratim Borah, Ankur Jyoti Bhuyan
This paper seeks to understand the socio-political dimension of the political changes in Assam vis-a-vis “regionalism” and its contestations. The Changing contours of regionalism in Assam reflect i...
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Examining decentralization, patronage, and rent seeking: lessons from Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Uttar Pradesh India Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Sujoy Dutta
The present study delves into the complex interplay of decentralization, patronage, and rent seeking within the context of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA, Act) ...
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The changing contexts of international aid: examining Indian experiences for a BRICS way India Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ka Lin, Lizheng Wang, Rajiv Ranjan, Hong Zhou
Concepts like Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) and South – South Cooperation (SSC) have a significant impact on national strategies f...
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Faultlines and stultification: contemporary currents in India and Pakistan India Review (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Sucharita Sengupta
Published in India Review (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2024)
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The Discovery of Iran: Taghi Arani, A Radical Cosmopolitan Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Robert Steele
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, The Arabs, and the Region 1948-2022 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Joshua Teitelbaum
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 4, 2024)
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Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Urban Agriculture in Cuba Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Hugo Goeury
In the last thirty years, Cuba and its capital Havana have become homes to one of the most vibrant urban agricultural movements in the world. This article argues that urban agriculture (UA) became the epitome of a broader movement of “agricultural revolution” that followed the collapse of the previous, capital intensive, monocultural agro-export model. It contends that this transformation revolved
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The Agrarian Question as an Ecological Question: An Introduction Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Daniela García Grandón, Joana Salém Vasconcelos, Andrew R. Smolski
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‘Doff white shirts, don overalls’: Urbanophobia, Rural Enterprise and the Ideal of Masculine Citizenship in Post-Colonial Botswana Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa
Historical studies of migration have largely ascribed the configuration of masculinities in Botswana to male labour migration. This discourse is beyond dispute. As a paradigm, however, it has obscu...
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Integration Maturity of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine: Has DCFTA Helped Prepare Them for the EU Accession Process? East European Politics and Societies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Kristian L. Nielsen, Dženita Šiljak
The aim of this article is to research the economic preparedness for EU integration—or “integration maturity”—of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the three countries that have signed Association Agreements with the European Union. A major part of these is the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements, which offer significant access to the EU single market and provide a pathway to deeper economic integration
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Rethinking the salons in nineteenth-century Istanbul houses conceptualised in written media Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Derya Düzgün Top, Hatice Gökçen Özkaya
Focusing on the salons of Istanbul houses in the nineteenth century of the Ottoman Empire, this article is an attempt to rethink the spatial arrangement of the salon, the daily life practices and f...
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Backsliding versus Backlash: Do Challenges to Democracy in East Central Europe Threaten LGBTQIAP Empowerment? East European Politics and Societies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Conor O’Dwyer
If third-wave democratization propelled gains in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, asexual, and pansexual (LGBTQIAP) empowerment globally, does the contemporary wave of democratic backsliding imperil those gains? To what extent does the potential threat from such institutional erosion depend on the presence of right-wing populists in government, i.e., backlash? Can both threats
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Fairtrade Wine in South Africa: Does Fairtrade Labelling Guarantee Social Upgrading for Farmworkers? Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Joshua Bell, Sally Matthews
Fairtrade International (FTI) is an international certificatory body that seeks to restructure market relationships to support marginalised producers. In order to do this, FTI sells certified produ...
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Migration from Central Asia: stories and identity formation Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Mehmet Akif Okur
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2024)
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Buffalo Bill's Wild West, cowboys, and the fate of the western in Italy Modern Italy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Paola Bonifazio
This article examines the first tour of Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Italy and the so-called ‘sfida dei butteri’ (the challenge of the Italian cowboys of the Pontine marshes), which took place in Rome in March 1890. Analysing nineteenth-century Italian newspapers and photographs, I demonstrate that populist, anti-capitalist, and anti-American sentiments marked the Italian media's responses to the American
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Failed hereditary succession in comparative perspective: The case of Senegal (2000–2024) African Affairs (IF 1.9) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Marie Brossier
Contrary to enduring theoretical expectations on neopatrimonialism, family successions are rare in sub-Saharan Africa. This article demonstrates that family successions are difficult to set up and might fail when rulers attempt to implement them. Building on the scholarship on political dynasties and family successions in broader comparative politics, I demonstrate that the study of failed attempts
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Between Conflict and Cooperation: Electoral Strategies of Ethnic Parties East European Politics and Societies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Peter Spáč, Jozef Zagrapan
The paper analyses the impact of local demography on the electoral strategies of ethnic political parties. We focus on Hungarian parties in Slovakia and their tactics of fielding candidates in the 2014 and 2018 mayoral elections in 4,461 municipalities with competitive elections. We find that local demography is an essential explanatory factor concerning the strategies of ethnic parties. Our results
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‘As long as you’re not an asshole’: insider-outsider dynamics in queer research Central Asian Survey (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Elliot Napier
This research note is a contribution to the growing body of literature discussing the methodological, ethical and personal questions of researching queer issues in Central Asia. Through reflective ...
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Na’guara!! We peasants do practice agroecology:” Territorial Symphonies in La Alianza, Venezuela Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Olga Domené-Painenao, Mateo Mier y Terán, Fernando Limón, Peter Rosset, Miguel Contreras
In the face of the devastating implementation of corporative agri-food systems, processes of re-territorialization driven by agroecology, such as peasant resistance, become particularly relevant. In this article, we examine the history of the organization La Alianza (The Alliance) in Lara, Venezuela from 1975 to 2020, as narrated by its members, and using the methodology of the systematization of experiences
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“The Last Agricultural Frontier” – Piauí, Brazil: Agrarian Issues, Agribusiness, and the Gamela Indigenous Territory Latin American Perspectives (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Maria do Socorro da Silva Arantes, Lucineide Barros Medeiros
This research paper investigates the confrontation faced by the Gamela indigenous community, located in the Cerrado biome, in the southern region Piauí State in Norteastern Brazil, between agrarian issues and agribusiness. The territory in this area is considered to be the country’s last agricultural frontier. Self-recognition and self-organization of the Gamela people in their struggle for the demarcation