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Militarization fails to enhance police safety or reduce crime but may harm police reputation Open
Significance National debates over heavy-handed police tactics, including so-called “militarized” policing, are often framed as a trade-off between civil liberties and public safety, but the costs and benefits of controversial police pract…
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The Militarization of Law Enforcement: Evidence from Latin America Open
What are the political consequences of militarizing law enforcement? Across the world, law enforcement has become increasingly militarized over the last three decades, with civilian police operating more like armed forces and soldiers repl…
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SECURITIZATION OF SEARCH AND RESCUE AT SEA: THE RESPONSE TO BOAT MIGRATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND OFFSHORE AUSTRALIA Open
This article compares the law and practice of the European Union and Australia in respect to the search and rescue (SAR) of boat migrants, concluding that the response to individuals in peril at sea in both jurisdictions is becoming increa…
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Militarization and police violence: The case of the 1033 program Open
Does increased militarization of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) lead to an increase in violent behavior among officers? We theorize that the receipt of military equipment increases multiple dimensions of LEA militarization (material, cult…
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Toward an Anthropology of Landmines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the Korean DMZ Open
Drawing on research in the borderlands of South Korea near the Korean Demilitarized Zone, this essay analyzes the heterogeneous life of landmines in postconflict militarized ecologies. Humanitarian narratives typically frame mines as deadl…
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War is where the hearth is: gendered labor and the everyday reproduction of the geopolitical in the army reserves Open
The feminized imaginary of “home and hearth” has long been central to the notion of soldiering as masculinist protection. Soldiering and war are not only materialized by gendered imaginaries of home and hearth though, but through everyday …
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Militarized social reproduction: women’s labour and parastate armed conflict Open
This article brings together research on civil wars and militarization with feminist scholarship on the household in order to push theorization on civil wars in new directions. By introducing the concept of militarized social reproduction …
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Colonialism in Global Perspective Open
Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe's continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the reader to manifestations of colonialism as…
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Police Officer on the Frontline or a Soldier? The Effect of Police Militarization on Crime Open
Sparked by high-profile confrontations between police and citizens in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere, many commentators have criticized the excessive militarization of law enforcement. We investigate whether surplus military-grade equip…
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The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan Open
Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Pitfalls of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan bet…
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The Long Shadow of Ferguson: Legitimacy, Legal Cynicism, and Public Perceptions of Police Militarization Open
This study examines public perceptions of police militarization, specifically whether individuals believe police are too militarized, and support for practices associated with militarization. Drawing on concepts found in the legal socializ…
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Cyber-threat intelligence for security decision-making: A review and research agenda for practice Open
The increasing militarization of the cyber-threat environment has driven considerable interest in understanding the role of cyber-threat intelligence (CTI) in supporting the enterprise. Despite CTI's value proposition to organizations, the…
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Indigenous environmental defenders and the legacy of Macli-ing Dulag: Anti-dam dissent, assassinations, and protests in the making of Philippine energyscape Open
Globally, Indigenous Peoples’ dissent against unjust state and corporate incursions in their lands is being suppressed. States and corporations use penal laws, anti-terrorist legislation, and emergency powers to justify the detention of ac…
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Stabilization at the Expense of Peacebuilding in UN Peacekeeping Operations Open
The “uploading” of stabilization to UN peacekeeping presents conceptual, political, and practical challenges to the UN’s role in global governance and international conflict management. While scholarly research on stabilization has general…
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Audializing migrant bodies: Sound and security at the border Open
Sound represents a salient yet rarely examined counterpoint to visuality and materiality in security, international bordering, and mobility literature. Using the context of sub-Saharan African migration as grounding for empirical analysis …
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Assessing the Direct and Indirect Effects of Legitimacy on Public Empowerment of Police: A Study of Public Support for Police Militarization in America Open
The process-based model dominates contemporary American research on police-community relations and perceptions of police. A sizable literature has examined the linkages between procedural justice, legitimacy, compliance with the law, and c…
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COVID-19, Public Authority and Enforcement Open
The securitization of health is not a new phenomenon. However, global responses to the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa reveal the extent to which epidemic preparedness and response is now shaped by geopolitical concerns. UN Securit…
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The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro Open
How do organized criminal groups (OCGs) respond to military interventions intended to weaken and subdue them? In many cases, such crackdowns have proven counterproductive as OCGs militarize, engage in violence, and confront state forces di…
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‘Everyday droning’: Towards a feminist geopolitics of the drone-home Open
We live in an increasingly drone-saturated world. In this article, we bring drone scholarship and feminist geopolitics into dialogue to interrogate the drone-home. We re-orient military- and state-led accounts, foregrounding the growing ra…
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Domesticating Chemical Weapons: Tear Gas and the Militarization of Policing in the British Imperial World, 1919–1981 Open
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Geopolitical ecology of solar geoengineering: from a 'logic of multilateralism' to logics of militarization Open
Solar geoengineering technologies intended to slow climate change by injecting sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere are gaining traction in climate policy. Solar geoengineering is considered "fast, cheap, and imperfect" in that it could …
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The Body of Solidarity: Heritage, Memory, and Materiality in Post-Industrial Italy Open
This paper explores the rise of “industrial heritage” and the forms of memorialization proliferating around it. The site is Sesto San Giovanni, Italy's “City of Factories,” which was also a bastion of communist mobilization and which is no…
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Forest becomes frontline: Conservation and counter-insurgency in a space of violent conflict in Assam, Northeast India Open
Using the case of the Ecological Task Force (ETF) of the Indian Army as an entry point, this contribution nudges the existing conceptual and theoretical views on green militarization and violent environments in the context of reserve and p…
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Surrogate warfare: the art of war in the 21st century? Open
Airpower, drones and cyber-weapons are employed by states in conjunction with local armed non-state actors in an effort to coercively intervene in the crises of the twenty-first century. While the externalization of the burden of warfare i…
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The Gender Imperative: Human Security vs State Security Open
"This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security excluded from the realist militar…
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The Real Winner's Curse Open
Traditional theories of democracy suggest that political representation of excluded groups can reduce their incentives to engage in conflict and lead to lower violence. However, this argument ignores the response of established elites when…
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The militarization of responses to COVID-19 in Democratic Latin America Open
Latin America has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting its governments to take action. In this context, countries within Latin America have used their armed forces for an array of tasks to serve citizens. But how mili…
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Time at Its Margins: Cattle Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border Open
This article resituates the study of time in anthropology, moving it from the comparative exploration of internally coherent religions and national territories to the very margins of religions, nations, and capital. Borders recalibrate tim…
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The militarization of cattle raiding in South Sudan: how a traditional practice became a tool for political violence Open
Cattle raiding, a longstanding practice among pastoralists in South Sudan, was historically governed by cultural authorities and ritual prohibitions. However, after decades of on-and-off integration into armed forces, raiders are now heavi…
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Far Away, So Close: Transnational Activism, Digital Surveillance and Authoritarian Control in Iran Open
Transnational information flows and advocacy networks are among the challenges of a globalizing world to which contemporary authoritarian rulers need to adapt. Drawing on research into the repressive strategies of the Iranian state against…