for the Assir movement was enabled by the urban ecology in Sidon and the internal crises in Lebanon's Sunni political and religious establishment that for a brief period shifted the moral leadership of the Sunnis from the elites in the capital of
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Belarusian Professional Protesters in the Structure of Democracy Promotion
Enacting Politics, Reinforcing Divisions
Alena Minchenia
protest communities and their preventive detention by the police), having a distinct symbolic capital within Belarusian protest communities and an access to the protest economy. I use the concept “protest economy” to define a part of aid economy that is
Philippine Prison Marriages
The Politics of Kinship and Women's Composite Agency
Sif Lehman Jensen
This article takes its departure in a group of women who are married to imprisoned rebel suspects in Manila, the Philippine capital. The women originate from Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago, the country's southern region, where the Muslim
Curating Conflict
Four Exhibitions on Jerusalem
Sa'ed Atshan and Katharina Galor
much criticized recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December 2017, has different meanings and implications for those who occupy, those who are occupied, and those who are external to the conflict but take an active part in the discourse
Seeking Recognition, Becoming Citizens
Achievements and Grievances among Former Combatants from Three Wars
Johanna Söderström
recognition is also connected with political capital or political influence in their respective societies. In many ways, these claims for recognition are connected to the legacy of the war: how the war as a whole is understood, and what it was seen as
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Performance, Power, Exclusion, and Expansion in Anthropological Accounts of Protests
Aet Annist
gathered around a tree near a road building site of Õismäe, a late Soviet residential district of Tallinn, the capital. “Come down from there!” one officer yells in a mild tone. The tree is wrapped in a slightly shabby Estonian flag. A woman lies on the
Pac'Stão versus the City of Police
Contentious Activism Facing Megaprojects, Authoritarianism, and Violence
Einar Braathen
freed Afro-Brazilians had to leave the rural latifundios and migrate to the cities in order to survive. The epicenter of Brazilian patrimonialism was, and probably still is, the city that functioned as the capital of Brazil from 1763 to 1960: Rio de
The Permeable Olympic Fortress
Mega-Event Security as Camouflage in Rio de Janeiro
Dennis Pauschinger
necessity. Unfortunately, here in Rio we see that the state's resources are distributed according to visibility … You can verify that there are areas in the interior of the capital or in the Baixada [Baixada Fluminense is a neighbor district of Rio de
Leyla Neyzi, Nida Alahmad, Nina Gren, Martha Lagace, Chelsey Ancliffe, and Susanne Bregnbæk
”). For this book, Feldman carried out research in the UN archives in the Jordanian capital of Amman, as well as several ethnographic fieldworks in several different localities over a period of six years (2008–2014), but she obviously also builds on her
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Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Tomas Salem
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