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“This Country has Laws”: Legalism as a Tool of Entrenching Autocracy in Egypt "这个国家有法律法律主义是埃及巩固专制的工具

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American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241267936

Heba M. Khalil

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Attempting Decoloniality in a Youth Climate Campaign: Learning to Be in Right Relation and the Incommensurability of Making Indigenous Knowledges Legible 在青年气候运动中尝试非殖民化：学会正确对待与使土著知识合法化的不可比性

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268548

Joe Curnow, Lucy Delgado

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The Formative Intersections of “Race”, Nation, and Generation: Learning from “Care” in the Lives of Unaccompanied Child Migrants in England 种族"、民族和世代的形成交叉：从英格兰孤身儿童移民生活中的 "关爱 "中学习

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268541

Veena Meetoo, Rachel Rosen

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Gendered Ideologies and Authoritarianism in Nicaragua 尼加拉瓜的性别意识形态和专制主义

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241267911

Pamela Neumann

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Citizens and Their Bots That Sniff Corruption: Using Digital Technology to Monitor and Expose Politicians Who Misuse Public Money 嗅探腐败的公民及其机器人：利用数字技术监督和揭露滥用公款的政客

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268572

Fernanda Odilla, Clarissa Veloso

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Developing Disobedience: A Decolonial Childist Perspective on School Strikes for Climate Justice 发展不服从：从非殖民地儿童主义视角看学校为气候正义举行罢工

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-07 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268596

Tanu Biswas, Liola Nike Mattheis

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Imagining Other Childhoods: Dolls and the Museum of Childhood as an Imperial Space 想象其他童年：玩偶和作为帝国空间的童年博物馆

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268553

Catriona Ellis

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Rodrigo Duterte as “the Trump of Asia”? The Limits and Pitfalls of Thin Comparison 罗德里戈-杜特尔特是 "亚洲的特朗普"？单薄比较的局限与陷阱

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268329

Marco Garrido

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Democracy Revised: Democratic Imaginary and Emerging Autocracy in Post-Soviet Russia 民主修订版：后苏联俄罗斯的民主想象与新兴专制制度

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241267937

Yulia Prozorova

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Colonialism, Racism, and Childhoods: Introduction 殖民主义、种族主义与童年：导言

IF 3.2 2区文学

American Behavioral Scientist Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268546

Freeden Blume Oeur, Donna Varga

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