Contesting an exclusive citizenship regime: the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its electoral mobilisation in Batman in the late 1970s [0.03%]
挑战民族国家的公民身份制度安排——“库尔德工人党”在20世纪70年代末巴特曼市选举动员中的政治实践
Joost Jongerden,Francis OConnor
Joost Jongerden
Repeated calls have been made to focus on the politics of political violence for a better understanding of the political fundamentals of an armed movement. In this article we look into the politics of the Kurdistan Workers Party (Partiya Ka...
White supremacy and the racial logic of the global preventing and countering violent extremism agenda [0.03%]
白人至上主义与全球预防和打击暴力极端主义逻辑中的种族思维
Elizabeth Mesok,Nora Naji,Darja Schildknecht
Elizabeth Mesok
This article analyses what the disavowal of abject forms of white supremacy reveals about the racial logic of the global preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) agenda. We argue that the global P/CVE agenda is built on racialise...
Maziyar Ghiabi
Maziyar Ghiabi
Capitalism is not only an economic mode of production; it is also a form of life. This also applies to a historical type of capitalism, which is the capitalism founded on (illicit) drugs - in other words: narco-capitalism. The article discu...
Digitising biopiracy? The global governance of plant genetic resources in the age of digital sequencing information [0.03%]
数字化生物剽窃?数字序列信息时代植物遗传资源的全球治理
Ryan Nehring
Ryan Nehring
Historical concerns over the exploitation of the Global South's genetic biodiversity framed the importance of creating global governance mechanisms to ensure fair access to and benefit-sharing of genetic resources worldwide. The Convention ...
Philippe Bourgois
Philippe Bourgois
The cultural and political-economic valences of psychoactive drugs in the Global South offer critical insights on local and international fault lines of social inequality and profiteering. Historically, in a classic primitive accumulation p...
James Mills
James Mills
This article examines a drugs trade in Asia that has been largely forgotten by historians and policy-makers, that in cocaine. It will briefly trace some of the contours of this commerce and the efforts to control it. It will also assess how...
Maziyar Ghiabi
Maziyar Ghiabi
This article analyses the ways in which the state 'treats' addiction among precarious drug (ab)users in Iran. While most Muslim-majority as well as some Western states have been reluctant to adopt harm reduction measures, the Islamic Republ...
Bringing 'Light, Life and Happiness': British American Tobacco and musicsponsorship in sub-Saharan Africa [0.03%]
带来“光明、生命和快乐”:英美烟草公司在撒哈拉以南非洲的音乐赞助活动
Preeti Patel,Cassandra A Okechukwu,Jeff Collin et al.
Preeti Patel et al.
This article aims to provide a review of music sponsorship to market cigarettes in sub-Saharan Africa. Using analysis of previously secret corporate documents from British American Tobacco (BAT) and focusing on two separate case studies of ...
Corruption, NGOs, and Development in Nigeria [0.03%]
corruption, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)和发展在内的尼日利亚
Daniel Jordan Smith
Daniel Jordan Smith
This article examines corruption in Nigeria's development sector, particularly in the vastly growing arena of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Grounded in ethnographic case studies, the analysis explores why local NGOs in Nigeri...