Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

The two books being reviewed are compilation of papers on the belief system and religion that practiced by diverse local communities in Indonesian archipelago. first book concerned with experience repression political persecution many after 1965 event, while second describe adaptation processes those to islamization which is assumed as completed. Academically, successful exposing transformation...

On first glance, political abuse of psychiatry appears to represent a straightforward and uncomplicated story: the deployment of medicine as an instrument of repression. Psychiatric incarceration of mentally healthy people is uniformly understood to be a particularly pernicious form of repression, because it uses the powerful modalities of medicine as tools of punishment, and it compounds a dee...

Iraq mosaic formed of the different minorities survived for a long while; beauty that has not remained long. The changed to ruins following counterinsurgency. war in led complete chaos against all aspects society. It caused massive influx migration and displacement; it also fragmentation society eventually culminated deterioration human security people from communities. political, personal comm...

What, if any, effect do physical barriers have on cross-border population movements? The foundational claim that reduce migration flows remains unsupported. We conceptualize as a tool of immigration enforcement, which we contend is one form state repression. State repression could mobilization (reduce immigration), no (barriers symbolic political tools), or increase (backfire). evaluate the rel...

We investigate the role of oil in economic institutions for a sample 150 countries between 1960 and 2014. find that higher per capita values production result weaker form lower levels private property rights protection. This is robust to alternative instrumental-variable approaches as well different operationalizations income institutions. argue our finding indicative interest groups using thei...

More than five years down the line Venezuela had been slipping into an economic cri-sis. An economy wholly dependent on the sale of oil and no diversification of economic production is sure to face such a crisis. The fluctuation in oil prices is sure to hurt the market and the economy. To make matters worse, Venezuela now faces a political crisis with two individuals claiming themselves to be P...

Empirical research on the social psychological antecedents of collective action has been conducted almost exclusively in democratic societies, where activism is relatively safe. The present examines predictors intentions contexts resistance met with significant repression by authorities. Combining recent advancements literature, our model unique predictive roles emotion (anger and fear), politi...