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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Backstage Passage -- 2. The Paichusuo and the Jurisdiction of Qing -- 3. Policing and the Politics of Care -- 4. Administrative Repair -- 5. Holding Things Together -- 6. Strong Democracy, Weak Police -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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AbstractAmazonas state represents 37% of the Amazônia biome in Brazil. Although Amazonas remains 98% forested, its contribution to annual biome deforestation increased substantially in the past ten years. Herein, the connections between population and deforestation in Amazonas are investigated from 1985 through 2020. Anthropogenic landcover fraction and population density varied spatially and temporally across the 62 municipalities of the state. The temporal variability had specific geographic patterns, and three microregions were identified. Economic development along the southern border, arising from agricultural activities in the pattern of classical deforestation in Amazônia, was characterized by large increases in anthropogenic landcover but only small changes in population. Economic development along the Amazon River, characterized by large increases in population and anthropogenic landcover, represented urbanization and the growth of industry and agriculture. Economic development along the western border, based on trade and commerce with Peru and Colombia, corresponded to increases in population without large increases in anthropogenic landcover. The three microregions were quantitatively characterized by different slopes between anthropogenic landcover fraction and population density. The connections between deforestation and population varied by a factor of 50 × among the different microregions, suggesting important considerations for the future forest preservation in Amazonas. That time is now given the increasing importance of this region, which twice approached 20% of the total annual deforestation in Amazônia over the past decade.

The anthropology of policing draws from a range of intellectual traditions to generate new understandings of the police as an institution and policing as a social practice. This article reviews recent anthropological work on police, situating it in longer-term disciplinary concerns. I begin with the connection between policing and personhood, exploring how the subject–object dynamics of police domination are related to anthropological conceptions of kinship, law, and social control. I then turn to the contribution that anthropological ethnography makes to a critical theory of the relationship between sovereignty, violence, and police power. I conclude by reflecting on the situation of scholarship in our current political environment, suggesting that the anthropological turn to policing is animated, in part, by hope for a better understanding of the nature of moral agency under difficult conditions.

Pennsylvania law permits a cotenant of an oil and gas estate to develop that entire oil and gas estate without the consent of other cotenants. This right to develop without the consent of all of the cotenants extends to a lessee-developer, and therefore an oil and gas exploration and development company can lawfully develop an entire oil and gas estate with a lease from just one cotenant. Pennsylvania law also provides that the developer must compensate, or "account to," the unleased cotenants for their share of the oil or gas produced. Pennsylvania law, however, does not clearly provide how developers should compensate unleased cotenants. No statutes or regulations speak to the issue. Instead, developers are left to discern century-old court opinions, which are extremely vague. This Comment will provide an analysis of the current state of Pennsylvania law by closely examining each court opinion that has ruled on the proper method of compensating unleased cotenants. The purpose of such an analysis is to guide developers who are plagued with the current, ambiguous state of law regarding unleased cotenant compensation. Next, this Comment will compare different methods of compensation and, ultimately, urge Pennsylvania legislators to unequivocally adopt the net-profits method with a risk penalty.