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Buffalo Bill's Wild West, cowboys, and the fate of the western in Italy Modern Italy (IF 0.48) 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 3.017) 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 1.225) 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 1.81) 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 1.047) 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 1.047) 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
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Disputes over pastures in the nineteenth-century Balkans Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Fatma Öncel
This research aims to contribute to the literature on Ottoman common and by analysing how mid-nineteenth century land codes influenced conflicts regarding common pastures in the Balkans. To accompl...
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Agricultural adaptation strategies under Morales’s administration: The Case of a Guarni Community in the Bolivian Chaco Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Vanesa Martín Galán
In Bolivia, the Morales administration promoted agricultural projects in Guarani communities with the purpose of enhancing climate resilience and strengthening the communities’ production capacities and systems. Though aligned with the government’s broader goal of decolonizing Indigenous realities, this objective proved questionable in the light of the government’s neoextractivist development model
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Productive Modernization and Challenges for Chilean Peasant Agriculture during the Phase of Post-Agrarian Reform Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Octavio Avendaño, Constanza Gutiérrez
The article addresses the trajectory and adaptative process of Chilean peasant agriculture from the mid-1970s to 2020. Our hypothesis is that peasant agricultural production has been forced into a process of permanent reconversion, which takes place every time a new agrarian policy is defined. Based on a review of secondary data, interviews, documents and other studies on agrarian transformation, we
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Experiences of female early-career professionals in male-dominated STEM companies in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Aliya Kuzhabekova, Dinara Mukhamejanova, Ainur Almukhambetova
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan put forward elaborate initiatives to address gender segregation in the labour market. However, female professionals are still heavily underreprese...
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Reconstructing the caliphate or bringing liberal democracy to Turkey? Millî Görüş’s view on liberal democracy before reaching power Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Uri Rosenberg
This article explores the ideas of the Turkish-Islamist Millî Görüş movement on liberal democracy. From its formation in the 1970s to the 1990s, when it won the Turkish elections, the movement exhi...
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Agroecology and Political Economy: The Peasant World and the Contradictions of Capital Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Raúl Gustavo Paz
This article examines agroecology from a political economy perspective and opens a line for an interdisciplinary approach between economics and ecology. To this end, the logic of capital in capitalist production and in peasant agriculture is analyzed along with its relationship to nature and the land. In this vein, based on the concept of the thing-process duality in capital, an attempt is made to
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Transforming Peasant Politics into Ecological Politics: The CSUTCB in Bolivia, 1979-1990 Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Olivia Arigho-Stiles
The emergence in Bolivia in 1979 of the major peasant union confederation, the Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia (CSUTCB) was integral to the development of an Indigenous politics of the environment in late twentieth-century Bolivia. While the existing literature widely documents the CSUTCB’s focus on class and ethnicity, this paper addresses the organization’s ecological
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Mining Extractivism, Commodification of Nature and Indigenous Peasantry in the Atacama Desert: The Political Economy of Yareta (Azorella Compacta) in Historical Perspective (1915-1960) Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Matías Calderón-Seguel, Manuel Prieto
Studies on the agrarian question in Latin America have dealt with the role of capital in the area of agriculture and forestry while paying scant attention to its role in other areas, such as mining. Research on mining extractivism, for its part, has privileged recent socio-environmental conflicts without delving into the configurations of social classes and labor relations as it relates to agriculture
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Floundering Stability: US Foreign Policy in Egypt Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Simon C. Smith
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘We get sucked into everybody’s mess’: Protests and Public Order Policing in South Africa Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Gary Kynoch
Based on interviews with 43 serving members at four Public Order Police units, this article highlights the perspectives of officers involved in arguably the most contentious and visible aspect of S...
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Mariculture Policies and Ocean Grabbing in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Hugo Juliano Hermógenes da Silva, Naína Pierri
Aquaculture (the breeding of freshwater and marine organisms) is commonly cited as a solution to the crisis that has plagued global fisheries in recent years. Since the 2000s, the Brazilian government has encouraged aquaculture production through government funding, sectoral planning, and environmental regulations. This government-driven mariculture has been responsible for the appearance of ocean
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Imaginary work: media representations of work and gender in Italy from the economic miracle to the present day Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Andrea Sangiovanni
The article explores media depictions of industrial labour in Italy, with a special focus on visual, film and television portrayals, spanning from the 1960s to the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Rather than delving into an analysis of labour processes, the primary objective of the article is to scrutinise the gendered representations of work and whether and how the representation of
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A Political Ecology of Resistance: Actions and Reactions of Agrarian Socio-territorial Movements in Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Joana Tereza Vaz de Moura, Leandro Vieira Cavalcante, Cristian Emanuel Jara, Julieta Saettone, Bernardo Mancano Fernandes, Ana Eliza Villalba, Silmara Olveira Moreira Bitencourt, Claurdia Yesica Fonzo Bolañez
Territorial disputes have intensified in Latin America due to the advance of neo-extractivism, while agrarian socio-territorial movements have created strategies of resistance and reinvention of their territorialities. In dialogue with political ecology perspectives, we seek to understand the dynamics of these movements in Argentina and Brazil. We analyzed the information systematized in the DataLuta
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Property Rights and Labour Relations: Explaining the Relative Success of Native Purchase Area Farmers in Southern Rhodesia, 1930–1965 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Erik Green, Mark Nyandoro
In the 1930s the colonial authorities in Zimbabwe set aside geographical areas where Africans were allowed to purchase land. Despite having private property rights to land, a rare occurrence among ...
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The Political-Administrative Nexus in Sub-National Governance: Exploring the Lack of Independent Administration in Poland East European Politics and Societies (IF 1.225) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Witold Betkiewicz, Anna Radiukiewicz
The main problem addressed in the paper is the relation between politics and administration. The authors try to answer if independent administration exists at the sub-national level in Poland. In a more detailed manner, the question is whether an acceptance of independent administration has been fostered by the dispersion of political power and the experience of participation in important decision-making
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Populist Storytelling and Negative Affective Polarization: Social Media Evidence from Mexico Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Rodolfo Sarsfield, Zacarías Abuchanab
The ideational definition of populism proposes that a narrative is populist if it is characterized by a Manichean cosmology that divides the political community between a “people,” conceived as a homogeneously virtuous entity, and an “elite,” conceived as a homogeneously corrupt entity. Departing from that conceptualization, this work first investigates the specific stories that Andrés Manuel López
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A Leap in the Dark: The Disappearance of Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu in August 1970 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Lieneke de Visser
In August 1970, four senior African National Congress members – Flag Boshielo, Castro Dolo, Victor Ndaba and Bob Zulu – vanished during their clandestine return to South Africa from exile in Zambia...
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The Cropland Expansionary Dynamics of Agricultural Production in Latin America: A Panel Study of Fourteen Countries, 1970-2016 Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Andrew R. Smolski, Timothy P. Clark
In this study, we employ a critical political economy framework for an empirical analysis of environmental withdrawals from agricultural production in Latin America. Namely, we focus on the role of export-orientation and trade direction of food as drivers of cropland footprint expansion in (semi-)periphery countries. Following the literature on the treadmill of production, ecological unequal exchange
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Agroecology and Institutional Framework in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia: A Case Study Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Andrés Felipe Mesa Valencia, Mary K. Hendrickson
Agroecology promotes the formation of networks based on principles of closeness, trust, and collective action among participating actors and with external institutions and agencies. This institutionalized vertical power is based on hierarchical relationships, which impact access to resources, policy influence, and the ability to navigate bureaucratic systems. This qualitative case study aims to investigate
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Metabolic Rift and Structural Crisis of Capital: The Productive Specialization Pattern Based on Commodities and the Progressive Elimination of Ecological and Natural Resources in Brazil Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Frederico Daia Firmiano, Paula Maria Rattis Teixeira
In recent decades, Brazil has experienced a pattern of commodity-based productive specialization as part of the nation’s subordinate entry into the global structure of capital. As a result, the accumulation process has been based primarily on the intensive and extensive exploitation of available natural and ecological resources. From a historical perspective, we apply the theory of the metabolic rift
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Revolts Against Neoliberalism in the Southern Cone: The Argentine Crisis of 2001 and the 2019 Chilean Social Explosion in Comparison Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Julián Rebón, Carlos Ruiz Encina
In the current century, mobilization and revolt have represented key events in Latin American politics.The 2001 Argentine crisis and the 2019Chilean social explosion represent revolts that emerged from social discontent generated by neoliberal models of accumulationand the operations of existing political systems. The form and temporality of their developments depended on the transformations of and
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Geopolitics of cryptocurrency mining in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Hugo Estecahandy
In January 2022, a massive power blackout hit Central Asia, and especially the southern region of Kazakhstan after months of a huge rise in electricity consumption in the country and a few days aft...
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In a Class of Its Own? The Origins and Early History of Tennis in the 19th-Century Cape Colony Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Francois Johannes Cleophas
This article endeavours to awaken a scholarly interest in the origins and early history of tennis in the city of Cape Town and the Cape Colony more broadly. By drawing on newspaper accounts and oth...
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Red Star Over the Black Sea: Nâzım Hikmet and His Generation Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Erdem Sönmez
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Entirely white’? Female immigrants and domestic work in Italy (1960s–1970s) Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Alessandra Gissi
Recently, a renewed history of foreign immigration in Italy, focusing on the very first migration flows after the Second World War, has offered a more appropriate periodisation of the phenomenon. Women have been at the forefront of these flows, which were initially determined by the new postcolonial setting of the former Italian colonies (Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia). Subsequently, the immigrants
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Introduction: Gender and work in twentieth-century Italy: new approaches Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Maud Anne Bracke, Ilaria Favretto, Nicola Pizzolato
This introduction to the special issue ‘Gender and Work in Twentieth-Century Italy’ draws on key strands of historical scholarship on gender and work, including women workers’ experiences, labour market discrimination, domestic work, the impact of gender norms, and ideas of masculinity and femininity on work identities. It traces the development of feminist influence within this scholarship, from making
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Perpetrators and Victims Blurred in the Soundscape of Wartime Mass Rallies: The Third-Generation Perspective in Marcel Beyer’s The Karnau Tapes and Kateřina Tučková’s Gerta East European Politics and Societies (IF 1.225) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Marcin Filipowicz
This article investigates the use of sound at mass rallies during World War II, a topic that has not been explored in depth. By using the concepts of sound memory and soundscape, the article examines how contemporary literature represents past war events, specifically focusing on how national groups and individuals are portrayed in relation to other people, places, events, and axiological systems.
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How Do Bigger and Smaller Cities Manage Migration? Ukrainian War Refugees in Polish Cities East European Politics and Societies (IF 1.225) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Agnieszka Bielewska, Ewa Ślęzak-Belowska, Olga Czeranowska
This paper presents a comparative study of cities’ migration policies. By comparing four bigger and four smaller Polish cities and their approaches towards Ukrainian war refugees, we show the differences in support offered by bigger and smaller towns. Polish cities wholeheartedly and spontaneously welcomed Ukrainians fleeing their country after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. While
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The Rising Financialization of Açaí in the Amazon: Evidence of an Ongoing Process Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Rafael Neves Fonseca, Thiago Lima
The expansion and intensification seen in the production of açaí, a fruit that typically grows in the Amazon, can have undesirable and serious socio-environmental consequences. Based on the premise that financialization in the agrifood sector accelerates processes that destroy the environment, an investigation is carried out into the claim that the supply chain regarding açaí is in the process of being
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The limits of concentrated power: Bureaucratic independence and electricity crises in Rwanda African Affairs (IF 3.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Benjamin Chemouni, Barnaby Dye
Rwanda is a posterchild of economic success in twenty-first century Africa. Dominant explanations for the country’s growth use the political settlements framework, asserting that concentrated political power enabled long-term planning. In contrast, this article uses the case of Rwanda’s impressive boom in electricity generation to demonstrate that such concentrated power also distorts policy-making
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From the Editors East European Politics and Societies (IF 1.225) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 James Krapfl, Lavinia Stan
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Working in the dream factory: gendering women's film labour under Fascism Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Carla Mereu Keating
This article draws on a broad range of under-explored historical sources to document the career trajectories of the women who worked in the Italian film industry between 1930 and 1944. Challenging established histories that normalise male dominance in Italian cinema during and after Mussolini's regime, the article sheds light on women's overlooked contribution to Italy's sound film industry and explores
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The Circassian question: liberalism and the pursuit of freedom in the mid-nineteenth century Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Mira Ahmad
For well over a hundred years, Russian expansion into the Caucasus put it face-to-face with the Circassians. This small group of Muslims successfully waged war against Russia, both militarily and d...
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Promoting Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania: Assessing Voluntary Gender Quotas in CCM’s and CHADEMA’s Constitutions Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Victoria Melkisedeck Lihiru
In response to the low numbers of women in elected positions of power, Tanzania reserves special seats for women in parliament and local governance structures. Consequently, the special seats syste...
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The Sources of Rwandan Military Effectiveness: State Building, Security Assistance and the Cabo Delgado Campaign Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Ralph Shield
Rwanda’s mid 2021 military intervention meaningfully degraded the capability of the jihadist insurgents terrorising northern Mozambique. Rwanda’s early battlefield achievements were due to a combin...
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Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 John Slight
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 3, 2024)
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Shut Up! Governments’ Popular Support and Journalist Harassment: Evidence from Latin America Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Claudio Balderacchi, Andrea Cassani, Luca Tomini
During the past few decades, Latin American governments’ recurrent attacks against journalists have contributed to the erosion of press freedom in the region and, relatedly, of the quality of democracy. Yet what pushes governments to harass journalists? We argue that governments are more likely to harass journalists when popular support for them drops. Due to the ability of journalists to influence
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Why Didn’t Brazilian Democracy Die? Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Marcus André Melo, Carlos Pereira
Brazil, for many scholars and pundits, showcased the risk of democratic breakdown with the election of a far-right populist like Jair Bolsonaro. Against pessimistic expectations, however, not only has Brazilian democracy survived but politics has returned to business as usual. What can explain this supposedly unanticipated outcome? This article provides an analytical assessment of this this puzzle
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Peacemaking in authoritarian context in Africa: promoting peace from below in Cameroon African Affairs (IF 3.017) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Claire Lefort-Rieu
Cameroon, traditionally overlooked on the international peace agenda, has recently received increased attention due to mounting security challenges. Operating under an authoritarian regime that denies conflicts while promoting a narrative of stability, the course of international peace-from-below initiatives is profoundly influenced by this constrained political environment. Through in-depth case studies
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Italian women workers and women activists between home and factory: the struggle against labour precarity (1950s–1970s) Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Eloisa Betti
From a gender historical perspective, labour precarity constitutes a long-term phenomenon. Women's work represents a privileged observatory to understand how instability and precarity also characterised the cycle of economic and industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s. The article compares the conditions of female factory workers with those of home-based workers, a traditionally invisible category
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India and international investment law: preserving, delegating, and reclaiming sovereignty India Review (IF 0.938) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Prabhash Ranjan
Sovereignty is an age-old concept that continues to occupy centerstage in international law discourse. This article attempts to look at India’s tryst with international investment law through the p...
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The Antibusiness Basis of Leftist “Breakthrough” Presidencies in Neoliberal Latin America Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Leslie C. Gates, Alena Gericke, Diana Branduse, Jennifer K. Emery
Why did so many of Latin America’s leftist presidential hopefuls win at the turn of the twenty-first century? Why were they successful at breaking with their neoliberal political establishments when other leaders were not? For five of these leftists, antibusiness sentiment—not just frustration with political failures—boosted support. It catalyzed a backlash against the economic conditions and U.S.
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India and the sovereignty principle: the disaggregation imperative India Review (IF 0.938) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Rudra Chaudhuri, Nabarun Roy
The Special Issue examines the salience of the sovereignty principle with reference to India and its engagement with other states and entities in the international system. It seeks to disaggregate ...
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India’s use of military power and the sovereignty principle: insights from the neighborhood India Review (IF 0.938) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Nabarun Roy
Notwithstanding India’s public stand professing its respect of the sovereignty principle, the imperatives of competitive international relations have necessitated the use of force against its neigh...
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Living in a fragmented world: India’s data way India Review (IF 0.938) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Rudra Chaudhuri, Arjun Kang Joseph
This article examines India’s treatment of data and its relationship with sovereignty. In the absence of international norms or standards, the article draws on the various data-related rules, regul...
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Obituary Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Correction Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Outcomes, Politicians, or the Institution Itself? Using a Czech Case to Explain Trust Formation in Different Political Institutions and the Implications for Voter Turnout East European Politics and Societies (IF 1.225) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jan Hruška, Stanislav Balík
Compared to the scholarship on general political trust, relatively little attention has been paid to institutional trust. Research on the subject tends to treat political institutions as single entities, ignoring the fact that different institutions can enjoy, in the long term, very different levels of trust. This paper builds on the assumption that institutional trust may be formed differently depending
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Italy's diasporas: a discussion between Donna R. Gabaccia, Lucy Riall, Pamela Ballinger, and Konstantina Zanou Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Konstantina Zanou
It has been over 20 years since Donna R. Gabaccia's seminal work Italy's Many Diasporas was published (London & New York, 2000), an overview of the social, cultural and economic history of Italy's various migrations. Much has changed since then, but this book remains a classic. In this roundtable, historians Lucy Riall, Pamela Ballinger and Konstantina Zanou reflect on the value of Gabaccia's work
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Mozambique’s Neglected Nationalists in Exile: Retracing Coremo’s Relations with the Congolese Government and the FNLA Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Lazlo Passemiers
Even though the Mozambique Revolutionary Committee (Coremo) was Mozambique’s second largest liberation movement, historians have neglected its role in the struggle for Mozambican independence. This...
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Territorial Peace Five Years After the Peace Agreement in Colombia: An Analysis of the Discourse of the Former FARC-EP Latin American Perspectives (IF 1.047) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jerónimo Ríos
The following paper examines the notion of territorial peace associated with the Peace Agreement signed in 2016 between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. More specifically, the political discourse of the FARC-EP is analyzed through nine in-depth interviews with prominent members of the organization, who, in addition, have held or hold positions of political relevance in the formation heir to
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Internationalization of higher education in Central Asia: a systematic review Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Munyaradzi Hwami, Saule Yeszhanova, Moldir Amanzhol, Chinedu Elizabeth Okafor, Merey Tursynbayeva
Despite the growing literature on higher education internationalization in Central Asia, such literature remains unexamined for its criticality. Our systematic integrative literature review helps a...
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Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war and their employment in the Italian hinterland (1915–1920) Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Balázs Juhász
This essay deals with the criteria for the employment of POWs in Italy during the Great War. It is a contribution to the current research demonstrating the close connection between civilian and military spheres during the war, including in the area of internment. This intertwining is particularly evident when one studies the wartime economic system. Although the article shows that the contribution
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Responding to atheist state policy and practicing religion: the Ismailis of Soviet Badakhshan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Sultonbek Aksakolov
This paper explores the implementation of Soviet religious policy among the Ismaili Muslim population of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) of Soviet Tajikistan. By means of oral intervi...