The ForMaRE project applies formal mathematical reasoning to economics. We seek to increase confidence in economics’ theoretical results, to aid in discovering new results, and to foster interest in formal methods, i.e. computer-aided reasoning, within economics. To formal methods, we seek to contribute user experience feedback from new audiences, as well as new challenge problems. In the first...

Late-nineteenth-century China suffered from a weak and declining central government, the incursions of Western interests, and a necessity to grapple with the demands of a modern national state. For sixty days in the summer of 1900 the legation quarters of Western governments in Peking came under siege by the Qing government and Boxer forces until finally relieved by an international military ex...

T he accumulation of capital in Europe is strongly and positively associated with the accumulation of alien invasive species. In a study of the drivers behind biological invasions in Europe, Pyšek et al. (1) use European macroecological, economic, and demographic data to explain the variation in alien species richness of bryophytes, fungi, vascular plants, terrestrial insects, aquatic invertebr...

Guinean hosts viewed Liberian refugees with the same ambivalence and fascination that many held for their own children, who were embracing the consumerist ethos of Guinea’s postsocialist 1990s. Loma-speaking farmers’ categories for evaluating historical change and refugee comportment grew out of metaphors of embodied agency and morality. These categories challenge some aspects of both Guinean e...

In the spirit of this special issue to center on wronged individuals and groups, their account how wrongs should be understood repaired, what actions promote repair, article focuses groups by genocide entitlement epistemic reparation in aftermath genocide. I argue that requires not only fulfillment informational needs victims, survivors, descendants, including access archives, documents, provis...

We discuss various human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) inherent within communities bordering a mid-sized, semi-porous wildlife conservancy in Kenya. HWC are growing issue as human population expands into habitat to put people and more frequent contact compete for scarce resources. In 2018, we surveyed the crop-raiding livestock depredation experiences of 918 households from 10 separate villages aske...

In early 2020, the world was rocked by a highly contagious, acute respiratory virus. Within few months, many countries had gone into lockdown and were issuing mandatory mask-wearing social distancing in what came to be known as COVID-19 pandemic.1 Many theories quickly developed how where emerged, although definitive answer is still not available. Scientists do agree, however, that it zoonotic ...

This article explores the ‘apprehension’ that permeates life in coastal Sierra Leone as fisherfolk struggle to navigate a precarious economy of overfished waters and overstrained relationships. In context deepening uncertainty, social vigilance has come be regarded key survival skill. At sea, even fishermen strain their senses for evidence shoaling fish, they remain equally vigilant rival crews...

The subject matter of the nation is a usual staple on the menu of postcolonial Nigerian fiction. In this sense, the repertoire of Chinua Achebe’s art echoes an incurable preoccupation with Nigeria’s postcolonial condition as a nation. Also, this paper explores the centrality of intertextuality in the production of Achebe’s fiction, primarily his political novel about crisis plaguing intellectua...

This article focuses on local agency in two near-famines in 18th-century and 19th-century Flanders. 1 In a comparative exercise, we aim to map out and understand the reorganisation of private and public social relations in two periods of sudden social distress. Our analysis of the food crises of 1740 and 1845-1847 in Flanders exposes the local mechanisms of coping and protection, both in an inf...