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Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religious, and national identity in north-east Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and

O presente artigo visa a refletir sobre a atuação do estado do Rio Grande do Sul em face da pandemia de COVID-19. Como particularidade metodológica e analítica, buscou-se compreender a reprodução da lógica neoliberal por parte do governo do RS, através da análise temática das lives de combate à pandemia da Covid-19, protagonizadas pelo então Governador Eduardo Leite. Por tratar-se de um período de crise sanitária, o Estado esteve à frente de uma conjuntura de tensão político-econômica – momentos críticos (cf. BOLTANSKI; THÉVENOT, 1999) –, revelando, portanto, a gramática moral (BOLTANSKI; THEVÉNOT, 1999) que norteou a gestão do governador na pandemia, apontando a incorporação de princípios que buscaram enfatizar a eficiência (sem desperdício orçamentário para a saúde), o foco na manutenção das atividades econômicas (política das bandeiras), que caracterizam mecanismos de "dominação gestionária" (BOLTANSKI, 2013), marcada pela tentativa de despolitizar a pandemia e moldada por valores individualizantes e empresariais.

Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification and conflict at the level of particular actors in relation to the behaviour of large aggregates of people and to systemic conditions.

Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in northeast Africa. Case studies from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya illustrate the way that identities are formed and change over time, and how local, national, and international politics are interwoven. Specific attention is paid to the impact of modern weaponry, new technologies, religious conversion, food and land shortages, international borders, civil war, and displacement on group identities. Drawing on the expertise of anthropologists, historians and geographers, these volumes provide a significant account of a society profoundly shaped by identity politics and contribute to a better understanding of the nature of conflict and war, and forms of alliance and peacemaking, thus providing a comprehensive portrait of this troubled region

We focus on the influence of institutional variables on business cycle synchronisation for 20 OECD countries from 1979 to 2003. More precisely, this paper derives measures for similarity of institutions and structural reforms, and investigates direct and delayed reform effects on synchronisation by applying robustness tests to a panel data framework with bilateral data. Our findings indicate a strong instantaneous relationship between both similarity of institutions as well as common structural reforms and business cycle correlation. -- Business cycle synchronisation ; institutions ; structural reforms ; robustnesstest

We focus on the influence of institutional variables on business cycle synchronisation for 20 OECD countries from 1979 to 2003. More precisely, this paper derives measures for similarity of institutions and structural reforms, and investigates direct and delayed reform effects on synchronisation by applying robustness tests to a panel data framework with bilateral data. Our findings indicate a strong instantaneous relationship between both similarity of institutions as well as common structural reforms and business cycle correlation.