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Parenting the Nation: State Violence and Reproduction in Nicaragua and Sweden
Reproduction is a core question for the state, a site of struggle between the reproduction of the nation and the reproduction of liveable lives,...
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Puzzling Partnerships: Overseas Infrastructure Development by Chinese State-Owned Enterprises and Humanitarian Organizations
Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are now working with humanitarian organizations to develop infrastructure abroad. This emerging phenomenon is...
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Food security among cashew farming households in Kogi state, Nigeria
The effects of increasing the levels of cashew production on income, food security, nutrition and consumption among rural households are very...
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Conjunctures of the Welfare State Crisis: The Cracks Are Deepening
In this section, the debates that have been smouldering for several decades and have flared up in waves on the tense relationship between the...
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Proposal for a Dynamic Composite Indicator: Application in a Comparative Analysis of Trends in the EU Member States Towards the Europe 2020 Strategy
This paper contributes, with a dynamic approach, to the research on the creation of comparable composite indicators by presenting a proposal for an...
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Working Together to Support Family Caregivers of Older Nigerian Adults with Chronic Illness at Home
In Nigeria, the burden of caring for older adults with chronic illness at home significantly impacts family members who are the primary caregivers....
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Paradoxes of indigeneity: identity, the state, and the economy in Indonesia
Contributing to recent debates on indigeneity, this article investigates contradictions of indigeneity, especially the “indigenous paradox,” that is,...
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The State
This chapter explores the various approaches to the state that have developed within social theory. The debate over the role of the state took a...
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Sedentarist Metaphysics of Nation State: Ukrainian Roma as Refugees (2022)
Hundreds of thousands of forced migrants from Ukraine have arrived in Poland and other countries following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
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Introduction: State Capacity, Capacity to Aspire and Layered Resilience During a Pandemic
We begin this introductory chapter by setting out the book’s core question—where do people with a migration background look for help and orientation...
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The Corona State, Defining Itself
Posing the question about a specific corona economy would have to look at two dimensions, namely a massive negative effect on the standard figures...
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Political Alliance Formation and Cooperation Networks in the Utah State Legislature
Social network analysis has become an increasingly important tool among political scientists for understanding legislative cooperation in modern,...
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Connection to the Object of Investigation and State of Research
After the theoretical understanding of relational space, atmosphere and the different perspectives on it as well as the concept of communitization...
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Bureaucracy and the politics of time in state-business relations: Waiting to recruit migrant labour in Mauritius
Time is money. According to E.P. Thompson, this saying lies at the core of the logic of capitalism. And yet, in the vast literature on state-capital...
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The Impact of Recent State and Local Minimum Wage Increases on Nursing Facility Employment
Various U.S. states and municipalities raised their mandated minimum wages between 2017 and 2019. In some areas, minimum wages became high enough to...
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The State of Wildlife Tourism in the Southern African Region: The Case of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Wildlife tourism is a significant contributor to the economy of Southern Africa. It is characterised by the interaction of humans with various...
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Risk and Respectability: Reinventing Sexuality in State-NGO HIV Prevention Programs
The “AIDS industry” has been a contested topic for scholars of sex work and sexuality in India. Predictions of an AIDS crisis in India in the 1990s...
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Export quality: the historical bloc, state of exception, and the hegemonic process in the avocado enclave of Michoacán
In this article, we offer an ethnographic and historical analysis of the avocado enclave of Michoacán, Mexico, from a Gramscian theoretical...
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Navigating Motherhood and Work: Caribbean State Responses in a Global Health Crisis
Women’s care work sustains families and underpins economies. This was especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic as states’ protocols and...
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Exceptional Aryans: State Misrecognition of Himachali Dalits
This chapter analyses the positionality of Halis—former bonded labourers, ploughers and animal carcass removers—who constitute the most subordinated...