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Multivocal Anti-Feminicide: Aesthetic Frames and the Making of the Women of Ciudad Juarez as a Global Injustice Symbol 多声反女性屠杀：审美框架与华雷斯城女性作为全球不公正象征的塑造

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf016

Ana López Ricoy

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Resisting the Prevent Duty—A Typology of Everyday Resistance 抵抗预防责任——日常抵抗的类型学

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf024

Amna Kaleem

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International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste 国际关系，无声的消除，以及种姓的残酷

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf022

Ted Svensson

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Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture 促成国际历史战争：韩国和日本大众文化中的日常记忆外交政策

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf018

Chris Deacon

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Algorithms, AI, Big Data, and Big Tech: IPS Scholarship on Digital Technologies 算法、人工智能、大数据和大技术：IPS数字技术奖学金

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf019

Madeleine Böhm

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“Freeze my Semen and I Will Join the War”: The Masculinization of the Security–Demography Nexus “冷冻我的精液，我将加入战争”：安全-人口关系的男性化

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf020

Arita Holmberg, Aida Alvinius

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Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims 作为抗议场所的良心场所：受害者如何利用场所来推进他们的诉求

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf021

Claire Greenstein

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Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters 欧盟边界外部化及其重要性研究的中心化

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf014

Çağla Lüleci-Sula

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Permafrost, Science, and Security: Producing Climate (Non)Knowledge in a Thawing City 永久冻土、科学与安全：在一个正在融化的城市中产生气候（非）知识

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf015

Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard

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Tasting Tears at the Sharjah Biennial: The International Political Economy of Postcolonial and Decolonial Art 在沙迦双年展上品尝眼泪：后殖民和非殖民艺术的国际政治经济

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf005

Maia Holtermann Entwistle

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