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The promise and reality of decentralization
Felix Marco Conteh
Jan 01, 0001
Post-war reconstruction in Sierra Leone was accompanied by an ambitious donor-promoteddecentralization programme aimed at making delivery of the country’s failing social servicesmore efficient. A decade after the...
Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone
Felix Marco Conteh
Mar 27, 2017
The politics of decentralisation reforms in Sierra Leone are unpredictable and instructive. This article, based on fieldwork, analyses party politics within the context of decentralisation, arguing that the imperatives of...
Politics, development and the instrumentalisation of (de)centralisation in Sierra Leone
Felix Marco Conteh
Mar 27, 2017
The politics of decentralisation reforms in Sierra Leone are unpredictable and instructive. This article, based on fieldwork, analyses party politics within the context of decentralisation, arguing that the imperatives of...
The promise and reality of decentralization
Felix Marco Conteh
Jan 01, 0001
Post-war reconstruction in Sierra Leone was accompanied by an ambitious donor-promoteddecentralization programme aimed at making delivery of the country’s failing social servicesmore efficient. A decade after the...
Artisanal mining, mechanization and human (in) security in Sierra Leone

In recent years, as alluvial mineral deposits in many regions of West Africa have become ‘worked out’, new methods of extraction have become increasingly prevalent. In the case of Sierra Leone, traditional artisanal and...

Artisanal mining and the rationalisation of informality

Across sub-Saharan Africa, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) represents a major source of direct and indirect employment. Yet, despite the livelihood benefits and the growing interest from governments, donors and policy...

Artisanal mining and the rationalisation of informality

Across sub-Saharan Africa, artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) represents a major source of direct and indirect employment. Yet, despite the livelihood benefits and the growing interest from governments, donors and policy...

Artisanal mining, mechanization and human (in) security in Sierra Leone

In recent years, as alluvial mineral deposits in many regions of West Africa have become ‘worked out’, new methods of extraction have become increasingly prevalent. In the case of Sierra Leone, traditional artisanal and...

Artisanal mining policy reforms, informality and challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals in Sierra Leone

In recent years, governments, donors and policy makers across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have increasingly realised the potential of formalizing and supporting artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low tech, labour-intensive...

Spaces for contestation
Across mineral-rich sub-Saharan Africa, it has become increasingly common for mining companies to support development schemes in host communities where resource extraction takes place. The negotiation of so-called ‘community...
Artisanal mining policy reforms, informality and challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals in Sierra Leone

In recent years, governments, donors and policy makers across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have increasingly realised the potential of formalizing and supporting artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low tech, labour-intensive...

Spaces for contestation
Across mineral-rich sub-Saharan Africa, it has become increasingly common for mining companies to support development schemes in host communities where resource extraction takes place. The negotiation of so-called ‘community...
IPR Policy Brief - The cost of binge drinking in the UK
Much is known about the effects and costs of sustained heavy drinking, such as the increased risk of chronic disease and injury to individuals, the damage to social relationships and the additional burden on public services...
Published by: University of Bath
IPR Policy Brief - The cost of binge drinking in the UK
Much is known about the effects and costs of sustained heavy drinking, such as the increased risk of chronic disease and injury to individuals, the damage to social relationships and the additional burden on public services...
Published by: University of Bath
Slow waters
GEOFFREY MAGUIRE
Oct 22, 2019
Recent critical approaches to slow queer film in Latin America have focused almost exclusively on the depiction of non-normative sexualities and desires, neglecting both the representational politics of cinematic slowness and...
Transnational Soldiers and Guerrilla Warfare from the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War
Jorge Marco
Jul 01, 2020
This article analyses how military institutions incorporated innovations in their tactics using the intermediary role of transnational soldiers in the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet experience of guerrilla warfare during the...
Transnational Soldiers and Guerrilla Warfare from the Spanish Civil War to the Second World War
Jorge Marco
Jul 01, 2020
This article analyses how military institutions incorporated innovations in their tactics using the intermediary role of transnational soldiers in the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet experience of guerrilla warfare during the...
The Antifascist Tower of Babel
Jorge Marco
Dec 01, 2019
The International Brigades were a hybrid bunch: multi-ethnic, multi-national—
and multi-lingual: not everybody spoke everybody’s language. This posed serious
organizational challenges for the Republican war effort.
Rethinking the Postwar Period in Spain
Jorge Marco
Jul 31, 2020
There is a consensus among scholars regarding the slow transformation of ‘hot-blooded terror’ into ‘cold-blooded terror’ during the Civil War and the Post-war period in Spain. This article challenges this framework in two ways....
Rethinking the Postwar Period in Spain
Jorge Marco
Jul 31, 2020
There is a consensus among scholars regarding the slow transformation of ‘hot-blooded terror’ into ‘cold-blooded terror’ during the Civil War and the Post-war period in Spain. This article challenges this framework in two ways....
Digital Media Ethics
Digital media and connected technologies have brought some new ethical challenges to the surface. Digital media ethics is the scientific and systematic study of ethical attitudes and problems in relation to the use of digital...

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