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ImReadinHere
"Mandatory arrest laws for domestic violence have led to decreases in the number of battered women who kill their partners in self defence but they have not led to a
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kate
drtycmptr
thread of sources that indicate artemis is a lesbian/sapphic: 1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41298993?read-now=1&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents 2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/lal.2009.21.3.354?Search=yes&resultItemClick=
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Jeremy Giffon
jeremygiffon
Deleuze (via Foucault) argues that before Napoleon we were in societies of sovereignty and that after until WW2 we were in a society of discipline. The former sought to tax
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Aditya Dasgupta
_adasgupta
Thing about state capacity: takes rare societal consensus + generations of effort to build public institutions like the post office, but just a few corrupt leaders to hollow them out,
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Katie De Boer
antianeirantics
I have been thinking a lot about #motherhood in epic and have some thoughts! (A thread!)This semester, I’ve been teaching a Greek course “Homer’s Iliad and the Trauma of War.”
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Shibani Mahtani
ShibaniMahtani
Spoke to some of the leading experts on authoritarian regimes and the way they communicate, including @LMorgenbesser @MariaRepnikova "These outlandish claims, conspiracy theories, contradictory information and downright lies" -- i
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S. Ani Mukherji
SAniMukherji
I am very excited to come on board as co-editor with Rachel on this next issue of the *Journal of Academic Freedom*. I thought would do a quick thread on
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Professor Paige West
PaigeWestNYC
On US based academics excited about "getting back to the field" - I miss my family, colleagues, and friends in #PNG so much right now it hurts, because this week
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Jon Lindsay
jonrlindsay
@dandrezner, Ron Krebs, and Randall Schweller make an excellent case for grand strategy by arguing that it does not exist. 1/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-04-13/end-grand-strategy @NinaSilove points out that "grand strategy&
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Rochelle D.
rochellehd
Since I'm trying to be the change I want to see in the world, a thread of feminist state theory: Wendy Brown: States of Injuryhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691029894/states-of-injury Johanna Kantola: Feminists Theorize
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Iñaki Aldasoro
i_aldasoro
Check out our new paper on bank geographic complexity and bank risk. 1/https://twitter.com/BIS_org/status/1252142987762716673 We use the BIS banking list to construct a Herfindahl-Hirschman(*) measure of geographic representation and complexity at
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Matthew Shugart
laderafrutal
Please, if you are teaching an overview of electoral system effects, consider using this. It is much more lawlike in its scientific derivation and empirically accurate than the (in)famous "law"
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Jacquelyn Schneider
JackieGSchneid
Yesterday CJCS Gen Milley contradicted SECDEF Esper on the all important question of military hair regulations during a pandemic. This led to a social media furor. For those of you
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#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia
wmnjoya
For the longest time, the British were frustrated by the Kamba. Like the Giriama, the Kamba didn't enter the cash economy. They used cattle as a medium of exchange for
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Lemillion
RickyDLaw
So i got curious of how badly hit Tanganyika was during the Spanish flu pandemic. Very few records exist obviously. But i found some sources that shed a light on
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Karlo Basta
KarloBasta1
1/ I really enjoy these intellectual excursions @BrankoMilan runs from time to time. Here, he compares the legacies of Franco and Tito, in effect attributing the survival of one multinational
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