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Mali’s Nomads: Bulwarks Against Jihad
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 65–74.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Nicholas Jubber Nicholas Jubber, author of The Prester Quest and Drinking Arak off an Ayatollah’s Beard , is working on a book about nomads in North Africa. © World Policy Institute 2014 2014 World Policy Institute Photo: Emilia Tjernström TIMBUKTU, Mali—“We are the only...
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Clearing the Air
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 March 2012
... and nomadic herdsmen, has some of the world’s most toxic air. The pollution is at its most intense in the winter, when over 100,000 ger stoves must work overtime to offset frigid outdoor temperatures that can dip as low as 40 degrees below zero—where Fahrenheit and Celsius overlap. In addition...
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Connectivity: Intellectual Lubricant
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2014
... infiltrated the Kachin territory of Burma to put to rest any illusion that the newly democratized junta is treating its minorities or any who would challenge their rule respectfully. Nicholas Jubber lives among Mali’s nomads, including the redoubtable Tuareg, and delivers a riveting account of how nomads...
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24-Hour Party People: How Britain’s New Age Traveler movement defined a zeitgeist
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 3–9.
Published: 01 March 2018
... traipsing behind. “Crusty” as in encrusted dirt, dirt as a deliberate embrace of grotesquerie, a statement of resistance against society, proof of nomadic hardship. You’d often see them begging in the centers of small cities, drinking, perhaps the more enterprising of them trying to earn a few quid doing...
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Reindeer Gains: For centuries, the Swedish government has regulated herding and education as a way of controlling the Native Sámi population
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (4): 20–23.
Published: 01 December 2017
... grew even wider: Assimilated Sámi children were shamed about their heritage at Swedish schools, while young reindeer herders weren’t properly educated because, in the eyes of the state, they were destined to work with animals. The nomadic schools were, like Canada’s residential schools, notorious...
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“We Have No Martin Luther King”: Eastern Europe’s Roma Minority
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World Policy Journal (2002) 18 (4): 69–78.
Published: 01 December 2002
..., problem” from a different angle, viewing
they were also feared and distrusted. Gener it as a social problem that could be solved
ally landless and nomadic, they were rele by settling and proletarianizing the Roma.
gated to the outskirts of existing communi In the 1960s and 1970s, many Roma...
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Publish and Perish: Lessons in literature and revolution from a sycophantic Mongolian dictator
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 88–93.
Published: 01 June 2018
... with seizing livestock from nobles and redistributing the animals to recently formed collective farms. This period of radicalization also saw the abolition of private property, attacks on the lamaseries (monasteries for lamas), and the collectivization of nomads. When, in 1934, Stalin instructed...
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Beyond Borders
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Africa. Civilization marks its beginnings to the moment, more than 14,000 years ago, humans first gathered into settlements, leaving behind their days as nomadic hunters and gatherers. Known as sedentarization, this phenomenon likely debuted in the Fertile Crescent of the Levant, followed...
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The New Struggle in Central Asia: A Primer for the Baffled
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World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 33–45.
Published: 01 December 2001
... in former times enabled India. Fergana (as it is usually referred to)
each oasis to support a self-contained settle was and is the political and cultural pivot
ment, whose inhabitants traded with local of Islam in Central Asia, the homeland of
nomads or passing caravans. The Soviets dis learned...
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The Freedom Train
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 16–18.
Published: 01 March 2012
... came with independence in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Verity Norman—a South African educator who graduated from classical violin to hip-hop and works with Outspoken and Nomadic Wax, which produced the video of this anthem to democracy at www.outspokenthahumbleneophyte.com—talked recently with Outspoken...
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Africa’s Last Colony
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 77–84.
Published: 01 December 2014
... guerrillas that for the next 16 years pitted ragtag bands of unschooled nomads against the highly trained and professional Moroccan forces, recipients of American and French military aid. Morocco was a close Cold War ally of the United States. Polisario had ties to Algeria, Libya, and Cuba, although...
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Ceasefire, Sudan Style: A Photographic Essay on Darfur
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2005
... consisting of settled farmers and nomadic herders. It needs adding that
Sudan’s 35 million people are divided into 19 major Arab and African ethnic groups,
meaning tribal rivalries and a profusion of languages invariably complicates disputes in a
country poor in traditions of tolerance...
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A Light Bulb Goes Off: A Conversation with Hiroshi Amano
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (2): 63–67.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of LEDs, by combination of solar cells and batteries, we can provide very simple lighting without electrical generation. For example, I met with the Minister of Education of Mongolia, where they still live without houses—they are nomads. Now they can provide very simple lighting tools by combining solar...
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Estonia Goes Digital: Residents of the tiny Baltic nation are going all in on techno-governance
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 108–113.
Published: 01 March 2018
... campaign, it is now seeking to export. In 2014, Estonia introduced e-residency, a program targeting the growing class of so-called “digital nomads” who telecommunicate to work and tend to live flexible, itinerant lifestyles. Foreigners who become e-residents do not gain physical residency in Estonia...
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The Big Question: How Should Borders Be Drawn?
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2013
... regions is dire. Trade and cross-border travel have been severely curtailed, which is particularly disastrous for the region’s nomadic peoples whose traditional livestock migration routes crisscross the new frontier. There have been frequent and bloody border clashes, and the border itself remains...
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Life on Mars: Dubai projects a new vision of nationalism
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 10–15.
Published: 01 March 2018
... on imported physical labor), the Mars Mission feels like a pilot program in more ways than one. For decades, Emirati identity has been predicated on cultural heritage. On boat building songs, weaving, pearl diving, nomadism, hunting and falconry, and so on. At the same time, Emirati identity is framed...
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The Unwatched Ships at Sea: The Coast Guard and Homeland Security
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 73–78.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., in ulating commercial fisheries, civilian boat
this age of asymmetrical warfare, the Coast ing, and safety at sea.
Guard has become arguably more important It is a nomadic service. After having be
to this nation’s security than the navy. To gun life under the Treasury, it moved to the
day, port...
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The New Berlin: Offbeat, Disruptive, and Imperiled
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 99–108.
Published: 01 June 2017
... along the Spree in Kreuzberg where assorted nomads had set up a tent-and-hut settlement in the mid-2010s. The lot bordered on two brick tenements whose high windowless firewalls proffered a perfect canvas for two of Berlin’s most iconic murals, both by the Italian artist Blu. The first evinced the early...
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Across the Mongolian Steppes
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 110–121.
Published: 01 December 2011
... simply re-name geography. When the first Bolshevik troops crossed the border from Siberia, they found a primitive people who were an easy conquest. They quickly began to bend this nation of largely nomadic herders to their own will. First to go was the ancient “vertical script”—a language of runes...
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Uzbekistan’s Eternal Realities: A Report from Tashkent
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World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 81–89.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... cities and oases, and maintained a tradition
Among the many cotton fields, there are al al and highly developed Islamic culture.
so stunted orchards and drooping vineyards They lived alongside the nomadic Turkic
sustained by the water that oozes along the groups whose descendants are now called...
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