This paper argues for an interdisciplinary approach within the study of religion and conflict. Using a religious studies framework, it demonstrates that tools from human geography, peace studies, theology religions can be used to shed light on intractability conflicts where is not “innocent”. Within spatial dimension individual communal identity, most particularly concept “mythical space”, illu...

For autocrats facing elections, officers in the internal security apparatus play a crucial role by engaging in coercion on behalf of the incumbent. Yet reliance on these officers introduces a principal-agent problem: Officers can shirk from the autocrat’s demands. To solve this problem, autocrats strategically post officers to different areas based on an area’s importance to the election and th...

Streets in Motion is a novel intervention which Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay explicates how streets have shaped the socio-spatial relationships and economic geography of city Calcutta (now Kolkata) offers new methodological pathways for analysing urban historiography streets. The key proposition book that ‘street itself […]

The International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established in 1993. Intended to shed light on the events that occurred during Yugoslav conflict (1992-1995) and prosecute convict those accused of crimes against human rights international humanitarian law, it’s mandate lasted until 2017. This paper prompted precisely by this end. It takes stock contributions archaeology fore...

Human geography is a major subdiscipline within the wider subject field of geography. Traditionally, geography is considered the study of the Earth’s environments and peoples, and the interactions between them. ‘Geography’ comes from ancient Greek origins (Eratosthenes was the first to use it), literally translating as ‘to write or describe the world’. In classical and Enlightenment geography, ...

The conquest of Lisbon, in October 1147, marked a new period for the territories Islamic al-Ušbūna. now Christian rulers oversaw changes within social fabric city through arrival elites and exodus part previous inhabitants, perceived as ethnic religious minorities, alongside transfer property appropriation space. In these urban processes, with others, rare information available underlines role ...

BACKGROUND Ethnic and socioeconomic inequities in use of breast cancer adjuvant therapy are well documented in many countries including the USA, and are known to contribute to lower breast cancer survival among minority ethnic and socioeconomically deprived women. We investigated ethnic and socioeconomic inequities in use of adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy in a cohort of women with invas...

There is a dearth of empirical evidence on the extent of racist attitudes, broadly defined, in Australia. A telephone survey of 5056 residents in Queensland and NSW examined attitudes to cultural difference, perceptions of the extent of racism, tolerance of specific groups, ideology of nation, perceptions of Anglo-Celtic cultural privilege, and belief in racialism, racial separatism and racial ...

Recent scholarship suggests that collaboration between a firm’s headquarters personnel and indigenous overseas inventors enhances innovation by the latter. We explore how headquarters inventors’ physical proximity and intrafirm ethnic networks influence this knowledge spillover. Data from 104 U.S. multinational firms show that collaboration between inventors in the U.S. and on-site collaboratio...