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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 (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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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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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...
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Political change through the culture of the Radical Party (1962–89) Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Lucia Bonfreschi
The article aims to sketch out the main features of the political culture of the Radical Party (PR). This political culture is paradigmatic of a much broader phenomenon that has affected the politics of Western democracies since the 1970s: the critique of traditional parties in the name of a party model formed by spontaneous groupings of society; the extreme emphasis placed on individual choices in
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Introduction: LGBTQ+ visibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Cai Wilkinson, Jasmin Dall’Agnola
The idea for this collection of papers emerged from a desire to showcase queer scholarship in and on the region, following a panel discussion about the visibility of queer communities in the post-S...
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LGBTQ+ activism in Azerbaijan: shifting queer (in)visibility regime through power–knowledge technologies Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Khayyam Namazov
The queer (in)visibility regime in Azerbaijan has been historically structured through centralizing powers and the coloniality of knowledge(s) in their Russian/Soviet and contemporary Western manif...
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Ending slavery in imperial peripheries: Ottoman abolitionist policy in Trablusgarp and Benghazi provinces (1857–1911) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Salma Hargal
When Istanbul prohibited the trade of enslaved Africans in 1857, the Ottoman local authorities expanded efforts to curb human trafficking throughout the imperial realm. These endeavours also includ...
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Visualizing Palestine in Arab postage stamps: 1948-1967 Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Michael Sharnoff
From 1948 to 1967, most Arab stamp depictions of Palestine showed its borders as it existed during the British Mandate (1922-1948), from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. These borders con...
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On language gifts: public discourses on Kazakh and Russian in Kazakhstan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Alexander Ten
This article examines public discussions on Kazakh and Russian in post-Soviet Kazakhstan between 1989 and 2019 by using the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. It focuses on how conflicti...
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Ethnic Politics and Party realignment in African Constitutional referendums: Understanding Kenya’s ‘industry of insults’ African Affairs (IF 3.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Kirk A Harris
Kenya’s constitutional referendums in 2005 and 2010 stand out for their continuity with the national elections that followed both polls. During campaigns for and against the draft constitutions, politicians attempted to leverage their popularity amongst co-ethnics to signal their viability as coalition partners or ‘formateurs’ in subsequent general elections: rather than nuanced debates on constitutional
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Citizen Participation during the 2014 Protest in Burkina Faso: Aspiring to a ‘good State’ African Affairs (IF 3.017) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Marie-Eve Desrosiers, Nicolas Hubert
Analyses of the 2014 protest in Burkina Faso have predominantly focused on some of the movement’s major activists, to the neglect of ordinary citizens. Yet, while citizens’ participation in Burkina Faso in 2014 echoed to some extent the agendas of activists, it built on citizens’ own political subjectivities. Drawing on original interviews and Afrobarometer survey data, we show that Burkinabè citizens
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Historical Legacies and Their Impact on Human Capital: Comparing Regions within Romania East European Politics and Societies (IF 1.225) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Gabriel Bădescu, Daniela Angi, Jozsef Benedek, Sorana Constantinescu
This article asks if the measures of human capital, ethnic diversity, and gender equality from 1930 explain current levels of human capital in Romania, while also assessing the role of macro-regional differences in the manifestation of historical legacies. We focus on human capital, measured by educational attainment and by conscientiousness, a personality trait we estimate using a behavioral measure
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Inherent Attitudes or Misplaced Policies? Explaining COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Romania East European Politics and Societies (IF 1.225) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Tibor Toró, István Gergő Székely, Tamás Kiss, Réka Geambașu
hesitancy toward COVID-19 vaccines was not particularly high in Romania at the beginning of the vaccination campaign. Nevertheless, the country became one of the laggards in the European Union in terms of vaccination rates. We aim to provide an empirical explanation for this phenomenon based on a representative survey conducted in November–December 2021. We test the influence of various factors on
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The grass is always greener? Unpacking Uzbek migration to Japan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Yang Zhao
Published in Central Asian Survey (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Uyat and the culture of shame in Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Aizhamal Muratalieva
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Tracing the atom: Nuclear legacies in Russia and Central Asia Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Nikolaos Olma
Published in Central Asian Survey (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Political vs intellectual? Russia’s late Imperial archaeology and the Russian Cause Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Denis V. Volkov
Drawing on the writings of the founding representatives of late Imperial Russia’s Oriental studies, and documents from Russian archives, this article first traces Professor Nikolay Veselovsky’s (18...
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Afterlives of revolution: everyday counter histories in Southern Oman Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Vol. 60, No. 2, 2024)
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The Impact of War on Interethnic Godparenthood in Ukraine East European Politics and Societies (IF 1.225) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Keith Doubt, Sophie Reutter
The study examines whether kumivstvo, godparenthood, with its, with its moral and spiritual cultural heritage in Ukrainian society, provides normative power from the bottom up rather than top down for maintaining solidarity in a polyethnic society in the face of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A mixed methodology is employed, carried out by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. The
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The Greek population of Ottoman Pontus in the early twentieth century: a comparative demographic analysis Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Antonis Klapsis
The main aim of the article is to compare and contrast different sources that pertain to the Greek population of Pontus during the early twentieth century. More precisely, the article investigates ...
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Russian imperial borderlands, Georgian Jews, and the struggle for ‘justice’ and ‘legality’: blood libel in Kutaisi, 1878–80 Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Stefan B. Kirmse
This article analyses the Kutaisi Trial (1878–80), a little-known case of blood libel in the Caucasus, in which nine Jewish men stood accused of involvement in the killing of a Georgian girl. All d...
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Editorial Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Dennis Walder
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2023)
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‘Strange things happen when the lights are low’: The South African Night in Drum, 1951–1960 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Zachary Fleishman
South African historians have largely overlooked the night as a frame of historical analysis. This article is an initial attempt to rectify this by exploring Drum as a source for this endeavour. Dr...
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African Reactions to the First World War: The Case of the Mtenga-Tenga of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Mutale T. Mazimba
During the First World War, 312,891 men and women from Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) were recruited as porters. Their task was to ensure a steady supply of food and artillery from Northern Rhodesia to...
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Centring Simon Kooper: Frontier Politics, Desert Environments and African Resistance Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Martin Kalb
This article centres on |Gomxab Simon Kooper’s resistance to German colonialism in Southwest Africa (1884–1915, modern-day Namibia). First, it underscores the agency of Kooper and the Fransman Nama...
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How Access and Benefit Sharing Entrenches Inequity: The Case of Rooibos Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rachel Wynberg, Sarah Ives, June Bam
Benefit-sharing agreements are a new, prescriptive way of treating trade, biodiversity and the commercial use of traditional knowledge. However, these agreements have met with surprisingly little c...
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Diamonds in the Rough: The ICU’s Activism on the Lichtenburg Diamond Diggings, 1927–1931 Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Laurence Stewart
This article tracks the involvement of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) in the strike on the Lichtenburg diamond diggings of June 1928, during which 35,000 black workers downed to...
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Racing to Win: Competition and Co-operation between the National Olympic Committee and Public Authorities in the Development of the Botswana Sport System Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Borja García, Henk Erik Meier, Louis Moustakas
Joining the Olympic Movement provides smaller countries with material and symbolic benefits. The Olympic Games represent a unique symbolic stage for national recognition and identity construction. ...
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‘Rooted Back Home’: Exploring Linkages between Small-Scale Land Reform Beneficiaries and their Communal Areas of Origin in Zimbabwe Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo
This article examines why land reform beneficiaries maintain linkages with their communal areas of origin two decades after Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform programme (FTLRP). This is done by inve...
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Decentralising Fraud: New Models of Electoral Manipulation during the 2019 General Elections in Mozambique Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Domingos Manuel do Rosário, Egídio Guambe
Based on observation of the 2019 legislative, presidential and provincial elections in Mozambique, this article uncovers and examines models applied by the Frelimo regime in manipulating elections....
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The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Robert Macdonald, Thomas Molony, Victoria Lihiru
In June 2020, the government of Tanzania declared that Covid-19 had been eradicated from the country. As the figures released by Tanzania’s Ministry of Health since March 2021 show, this was not tr...
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Was the colonial state developmental and what are its legacies? Journal of Southern African Studies (IF 0.864) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Bryson Gwiyani Nkhoma
Published in Journal of Southern African Studies (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2023)
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Framing the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict: an analysis of the narratives of the state leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey, 2002–2022 Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Naira E. Sahakyan
The modern phase of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has lasted for over three decades. Since the independent republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan emerged in 1991, the st...
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Of hovels and homes: consumption, class, and domestic space in early republican Turkey Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Kyle T. Evered, Emine Ö. Evered
In histories of preventing and treating tuberculosis, many physicians came to prioritize the place and role of the home by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This was as true in the...
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Politicking of Islam and LGBTQ+ discourse in Uzbekistan Central Asian Survey (IF 1.81) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Gena Cheburashka
While the rights of LGBTQ+ people are improving in many regions of the world, the protections and freedoms of the queer community in Uzbekistan are stagnating. In this research note, I share some o...
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Oman book review Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Tancred Bradshaw
Published in Middle Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) Summer School 2023: conference report Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti, Chiara Brogi, Karen Bertorelli
This report is about the ASMI Summer School held in Pisa on 22–23 June 2023. The conference focused on twentieth-century history issues: gender studies, cultural studies, resistance studies, fascism studies and mafia studies, with the addition of a round table and two keynote lectures, which discussed the profession of the modern historian and the history of racism in Italy from the Second World War
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Young woman, daughter, mother: female soldiers killed in battle during Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949) Middle Eastern Studies (IF 0.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sharon Geva
During Israel’s War of Independence (1947–1949), women were a minority in the enlisted forces (10 per cent) and among the victims (9 per cent). Most did not carry weapons, and some were not killed ...
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Fascist transnationalism during the occupation of Albania (1939–43) Modern Italy (IF 0.48) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Alexander Lang
This article links the study of transnational and imperial fascism in the context of the Italian occupation of Albania by examining how Italian authorities sought to turn Albanians abroad into assets rather than liabilities. Organising and monitoring Albanians occurred through conferences, youth institutions and consular activities. Studying such concrete contacts and negotiations allows us to explore
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Approaching Equality? Media Treatment of Male and Female Members of Presidential Cabinets in a Cross-Country Comparison Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Brenna Armstrong, Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
Generalizability of extant findings about media treatment of women in politics is uncertain because most research examines candidates for the legislature or heads of government, and little work moves beyond Anglo-American countries. We examine six presidential cabinets in Costa Rica, Uruguay, and the United States, which provide differing levels of women’s incorporation into government. These cases
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Why Latin American Parties Are Not Coming Back Latin American Politics and Society (IF 1.673) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Omar Sánchez-Sibony
This essay documents growing partisan social uprootedness across Latin America over time, manifested in diminishing social trust toward parties, debilitation of links between parties and social collectivities, lowering levels of partisanship, and rising incidence of personalism in the electorate. It focuses on some unrecognized and undertheorized causal factors behind partisan involution in the region