fundamentalist Christianity) in the American far right. This chapter wanders widely, considering the Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels, extreme laissez-faire economics, compassionate conservatism, slavery, and immigration. It is easy to get lost in the
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Sam Jackson, Áron Bakos, Birgitte Refslund Sørensen, and Matti Weisdorf
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Shadow Soldiering
Shifting Constellations and Permeable Boundaries in “Private” Security Contracting
Maya Mynster Christensen
private security industry ( Chisholm 2014 , 2015 ; Chisholm and Statchowitsch 2016 ; Eichler 2014 ; Higate 2012b ). Elsewhere, I have analyzed how Sierra Leonean contractors employ notions of race and slavery as a moral response to the unequal
In Conflict and Society
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Guarding the Body
Private Security Work in Rio de Janeiro
Erika Robb Larkins
skin color, is symbolically associated with the dirty work to be done in the household. Palpable in the racial commentaries across classes is a recognizable discourse that associates domestic work with dark skin, and dark skin with slavery, dirty
In Conflict and Society
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Russia’s Return as True Europe, 1991–2017
Iver B. Neumann
us off from the future and leave us pitifully to vegetate in the slavery and downtroddenness of our almighty neighbors? Addressing the army and sundry other institutions and groups, they asked how “those who do not love their country, those who
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The Social Life of Fighting Words
The Case of Political Correctness
Ronald S. Stade
situation demonstrably had changed over time, for example, through colonization and slavery. More importantly, the theoretical turn toward materialism, Marxism, world systems, and so forth forced anthropologists to spend at least some of their time in
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- 108–124 (17 total)
Invisible Veterans
Defeated Militants and Enduring Revolutionary Social Values in Dhufar, Oman
Alice Wilson
Oman of Sultan Qaboos. The Front had also banned slavery ( Takriti 2013: 122 ). Those (such as Khalid) who were slaves to Sultan Said, and attended Qaboos while he grew up in Salalah, can remain closely connected to him, as can their relatives. 8 No
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2019
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Introduction
Understanding Experiences and Decisions in Situations of Enduring Hardship in Africa
Mirjam de Bruijn and Jonna Both
Holocaust Trauma Descendant Memory Work .” In Argenti and Schramm 2010b : 193 – 228 . Leopold , Mark . 2006 . “ Legacies of Slavery in North-West Uganda: The Story of the ‘One-Elevens .’” Africa 76 ( 2 ): 180 – 199 . 10.3366/afr.2006
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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