Putin reads science the riot act

Riot Surgery

Sir,?The statement made by Dr. A. IC. Basu in his article 'Experience of Riot Surgery' (I.M.G., August 1947, p. 465) that 'shock for some reasons is conspicuously absent in these cases in the first few hours (Som and Mukherjee, 1947). In my experience this is dangerous teachingis utterly untrue and misleading. We never said that shock was conspicuously absent in all cases. We said in summary th...

Riot Surgery

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Public Support and Terrorism: The Putin Paradox

The increase in the number of terrorist attacks in Russia suggests that anti-terrorist policies have failed to solve the Chechen terrorist problem. The Putin paradox, named after Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, is the capacity of the incumbent government to maintain or even increase its popular support while suffering increasing terrorist attacks. This paper presents a dynamic model where go...

Interdisciplinary Criticism : Analysing the Experience of Riot

This paper reports the findings from quantitative and qualitative studies of Riot! a location sensitive interactive play for voices. The paper begins by introducing Riot!, it 0 then explores the growing literature on theories of experience and goes on to report the findings from three empirical studies of the event: a questionnaire-based survey of 563 participants, a series of semi-structured i...