( Sriram 2012 ). Burundi is an interesting case in point. While the government formally adhered to international obligations and norms, such as the ratification of the Rome Statute or rhetorical commitment to establish transitional justice mechanisms
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concept as “the attitudes, values, and norms that are transmitted and shared among groups of individuals in an effort to collectively cope with the common problems and conditions members face.” In Brazil, the police are divided between a Civil and a
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Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
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, heterosexual family ( Schwarcz 2019 ). Slaveholders assumed that the formation of families and kinship relations were not compatible with captivity and that affective and sexual relations among enslaved Africans, therefore, would not conform to acceptable norms
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do not fully accept common norms and values in Denmark. This is alarming!” StØjberg’s statement can best be seen as an attempt, first, to cultivate “moral outrage” for the purpose of fostering community bonding between “Danes” and “non
Military Violence in Its Own Right
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the norms. The reason for this state of affairs is that, apart from a very small number of individuals in any population, human beings have an inbuilt aversion (reinforced by strong social sanctions) to using violence against other human beings, as
Corinna Mullin and Ian Patel
agency is not simply that which is exercised in the “consolid[ation] and/or subver[sion]” of norms, but also entails the “perform[ance], inhabit[ation], and experienc[e] [of norms] in a variety of ways.” Citing Pierre Bourdieu, Mahmood (2004: 18
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Private Security Work in Rio de Janeiro
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from one image to the other, is how private security in Rio relies on the labor of two different kinds of dark-skinned bodies, which perform two varieties of security behavior. While a militarized hypermasculinity has long been the norm in the industry
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Understanding Experiences and Decisions in Situations of Enduring Hardship in Africa
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the environment of the military (comprised of legal norms and regulations, military lawyers, senior commanders, and public relations representatives) and its innermost circle (containing troops and lower-level commanders), there was an intermediary
