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The Social Conflict Yearbook keeps record of the main social conflicts taking place throughout the year and, at the same time, it provides deeper insight into a selection of episodes. On such episodes, the Yearbook includes not only substantive information but also analyses carried out by the stable team at the Observatory or by external experts specifically invited for that purpose.
Published issues:
Social Conflict Yearbook #13
Editors: María Trinidad Bretones, Jordi Bonet Martí, Clara Camps & Joan Quesada
Monograph editors (Mapuche Conflict): Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, María Ignacia Ibarra & David Soto
Section I: Focal Conflicts of the Year
The incidence of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abor-tion in the real implementation of the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy law in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2020-2022), Paulina Sassón Chattás
Chile's Constituent Process: Continuities and Discontinuities from Bachelet's Citizen Consultation to the Constitutional Convention 2021, Natalie Sofía Rojas Vilches & Raúl Medel Ortiz
Section II: Structures, Processes and Conditions for Conflict
Social protest in Latin America: the cases of Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Chile (2018-2021), Agustín Nava
The protests of state workers in Río Cuarto (Argentina, 1989-1991). A contentious dynamic situated, Celia Cristina Basconzuelo
Feminist collective action and its repertoires: of streets and hashtags. A review of the literature, Cecilia Moreno, Anna Villarroya Planas & Nuria Vergés Bosch
Section III: Taking Stock of the Year and General Consequences for Social Change
The feminist Funa. Activist debates in the face of public accusations of gender-based violence, Sandra Vera Fajardo
The agenda and framing of water problems in Mexico City in the press from 2019 to 2022, Cruz García Lirios, José Marcos Bustos Aguayo & Francisco Rubén Sandoval Vázquez
Yearbook of Social Conflict in Mapuche Territory 2021
Introduction
Summing up 2021: Covid, Constitutional Convention and State of Exception in Wallmapu, Natalia Caniguan Velarde
Articles
Mapuche women's voices and experiences in feminist revolutionary times, María Ignacia Ibarra Eliessetch, Alicia Rain Rain & Patricia Richards
Review of the Mapuche Conflict and Cause in 2021: A Narrative from Social Listening, Tomás Lawrence Mujica, Patricio Duran & Catalina Rolle
Mapuche people and COVID-19. Structural violence that is obvious. The current panorama 2021, Manuel Fuenzalida
The Mapuche Protest and the Extension of the State of Emergency in Wallmapu, Diego Gálvez & Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte
Reparation and guarantee of non-repetition in Wallmapu: the breach between the application of justice to Mapuche victims and international law, Sebastián Saavedra Cea, Eduardo Painevilo Maldonado, Ruth Vargas-Forman, Claudia Molina González, Christopher Corvalán Rivera, Wladimir Martínez Cañoles & Fabien Le Bonniec
Between Hope and Dismay. The Challenges for the State and the Mapuche People after the Outbreak and the Constituent Assembly, Juan Carlos Skewes & Debbie Elena Guerra
Militarized Police in Chile: Keys for understanding Police State Violence regarding the Mapuche Conflict, Alejandra Luneke Reyes, Helene Risør & Wladimir Martínez
Chile’s Constitutional Convention and the participation of the parliamentary seats reserved for Mapuche representatives, Víctor Tricot Salomón, German Bidegain & Fernando Pairican
The Araucanian referendum: the opportunistic use of direct democracy mechanisms, Alejandro Corvalan & Elisa Durán Micco
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Social Conflict Yearbook #12
Editors: María Trinidad Bretones, Jordi Bonet Martí, Clara Camps & Joan Quesada
Monograph editors (Mapuche Conflict): Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Constanza Lobos, Wladimir Riquelme Maulén & David Soto
Section I: Focal Conflicts of the Year
A new stage in the cycle of social conflict with environmental content in Argentina, Jimena Pesquero Bordón
App workers and the pandemic: an analysis of the work conflicts in two Argentine cities during the period of strict confinement,
Andrea Delfino & Paulina Claussen
Feminists and 8M-2020: An Identity Study of the Conflict, Raquel Vidal Ruiz
Section II: Structures, Processes and Conditions for Conflict
Mobilization against the sentence of the Supreme Court and the Argentine repressors, Franco Quiroga
Anti-Black Racism in Latin America, Esther Pineda G.
(Re)Construction of reality and protest: An analysis of collective action repertoires from the theory of social representations, Javier Oyarce Pizarro
Section III: Taking Stock of the Year and General Consequences for Social Change
About the origin and development of the political consciousness of the Chilean college students movement. From its anarchist consciousness to its antineoliberalism. 1906-2012, Gabriel Rivas & Tamara Seiffer
The French Yellow Vests: analysis of a sui generis movement, Arkaitz Letamendia
Book Reviews
Review Jean-Gabirel Périot (2021): Retour à Reims (Fragments). Les Films de Pierre, León Freude
Yearbook of Social Conflict in Mapuche Territory 2020
Introduction. The conflict in Mapuche territory in the year of the Pandemic and the Plebiscite, Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Constanza Lobos & Wladimir Riquelme Maulén
Articles
Public policies and Mapuche people: persistent challenges in the year of the pandemic, Verónica Figueroa Huencho
Mapuche protest during the pandemic, Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Diego Gálvez & Ariadna Solís
Reserved seats for the mapuche in the Constitutional Convention: an institutional gap thanks to the revolt, Germán Bidegain & Víctor Tricot Salomón
Balance and status of the protective judicialization in response to state violence against Mapuche children 2020, Cristopher Corvalán, Claudia Molina, Pamela Nahuelcheo, Sebastián Saavedra & Ruth Vargas
Mapuche cause and conflict in 2020: A Social Listening Narrative, Tomás Lawrence Mujica, Patricio Duran Gonzalez & Catalina Rolle Chacón
Tiresias was blind as well as clairvoyant: ¿Could he had foreseen what hapenned in 2020?, Tito Tricot
From the Social Outbreak to the electoral mobilization. An assessment of 2020 from the Araucanía Region, Wallmapu, Ximena Cuadra Montoya
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Social Conflict Yearbook, in Mapuche Territory (2019)
Editors: Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Constanza Lobos & David Soto
Foreword, Pedro Cayuqueo
Introduction. The Conflict in Mapuche Territory in the Year of Chile’s Social Outbreak, Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Constanza Lobos, David Soto
Articles
Public Policies and the Mapuche People: Gaps and Challenges for a Scanty Agenda, Verónica Huencho
Mapuche Protest beyond (and hither) Chile’s Social Outbreak, Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Diego Gálvez
One More Year of Disagreement: Participation and Mapuche Institutional Politics in 2019, Víctor Tricot, Germán Bidegain
Human Rights and the Mapuche People, Soledad Molinet, Cristián Peralta
The Judicialization of Social Protest: Between Repressive Strategy and the Search for a Protection Sphere, Centro de Investigación y Defensa Sur CIDSUR
The Mapuche Movement and the Chilean Spring, Tito Tricot
International Law, Holdups and Challenges. Implications for the Implementation of the Territorial Rights of the Mapuche People, Nancy Yáñez Fuenzalida
Mapuche Women Organizations in the Chile of The Revolt, Millaray Painemal Morales, Susana Huenul Colicoy
Taking Stock of the Year: Final Reflections from the Standpoint of Chilean Society, Juan Skewes, Roberto Morales
Taking Stock of the Year: Final Reflections from Wallmapu, Pablo Mariman Quemenado
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Social Conflict Yearbook 2019
Editors: María Trinidad Bretones (UB), Jordi Bonet (UB), Clara Camps (UB) and Joan Quesada (UB)
The pandemic cuts through everything, María Trinidad Bretones, Jordi Bonet, Clara Camps, Joan Quesada
Section I: Focal Conflicts of the Year
The Chilean Conflict under Analysis: Representative Democracy in Crisis, Teresa Ariztía, Ángeles Bustamante
Women’s Movements in a Chile and the Path towards a Feminist Constitution, Natalie Rojas Vilches
“We wasted a lot of time fighting among us”: Theoretical Approaches to the Participation of Football Hooligans (barras) in the 2019-20 Chilean Socio-political Revolt, Ricardo Cuevas Bascuñán
The Daphne Protests at the End of 2019. A Chronology, Michael Briguglio
Section II: Structures, Processes and Conditions for Conflict
Organization, Mobilization, and Family and Feminist Action in the Face of Femicides in Latin America, Esther Pineda G.
Movements of resistance in the face of the neoliberal push in China, Juan Pino Acevedo
Section III: Taking Stock of the Year and General Consequences for Social Change
The Response of the Feminist Movement to Sexual Violence in the Public Space. The Multiple Sexual Agression in the Festival of San Fermín in 2016 as Turning Point, Clara Camps Calvet, Anna Moreno Beltrán
COVID-19
Chronology of news concerning the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain (previous history), and Appendix 1, Guillem Garcia Soler
Appendix 2. Chronology of news concerning the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain (previous history), Guillem Garcia Soler
Appendix 3. Chronology of news concerning the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain (previous history), Guillem Garcia Soler
Does Lockdown Have an Ideology? An Approach to Dealing with the Covid-19 Public Health Crisis: Individualization, Control and Responsibility Exemptions, Joana Soto Merola
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Social Conflict Yearbook Special Issue (2018):
The Mapuche Conflict in Chile
Editors: Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Constanza Lobos & David Soto
Foreword, Claudio Alvarado Lincopi
Introduction, Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Constanza Lobos, David Soto
Conflict Analysis
Mapuche Protests on the Return of Piñera: Milestones and Dynamics in a Territory in Conflict, Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Diego Gálvez
Crime and Setup as Policies Towards Indigenous Peoples: The Hurricane Case, the Jungle Commando and their Effects on Mapuche Children and Adolescents, Cidsur Team, Southern Centre for Research and Defence
The Conflict in the Mapuche Territory and Human Rights, Soledad Molinet
Mapuche Participation and Instituctional Politics in 2018, Tokichen Tricot, Germán Bidegain
Critical Juncture of Negotiation Between the State of Chile and the Mapuche People-Nation, Esteban Valenzuela Van Treek, Osvaldo Henríquez Opazo
The Multiple and Systematic Violences Linked to Forest Extractivism in Wallmapu, Marien González-Hidalgo, Sandra López-Dietz
Experiences of Territory Recovered Through Resistance to a Model of Forest Exploitation, Manuel Fuenzalida, Simón Arce
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Social Conflict Yearbook 2018
Editor: María Trinidad Bretones (UB)
Current Conflict from the Past as a Guide for the Future, María Trinidad Bretones
Section I: Focal Conflicts of the Year
Euromaidan and the Ukrainian Political Crisis: Background and Prospects, Hanna Kulyk
Managing Water as a Common Good in the Municipality of Cochabamba (Bolivia). Nineteen Years after the Water War, Anna Ramoneda Martí
Section II: Structures, Processes and Conditions for Conflict
The Development of Mining Projects and their Impact on the Communities in their Area of Influence, Cristina Ramírez
Femicide in Argentina (2014-2017): An analysis from prudential criminology, Esther Pineda G.
Section III: Taking Stock of the Year and General Consequences for Social Change
Mexico: End of the Pseudo-Democracy?, Philippe Dautrey
Vicissitudes of the Tupiniquim Democratic Itinerary: Ups and Downs in the Recent History of Democracy in Brazil, César Santos Brunetto
The Feminist Worldview as an Antidote against the State’s Punitive and Repressive Activity, Clara Camps
Book Reviews
Mudde, Cas & Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal (2019): Populismo: Una breve introducción, reviewed by Marina Jareño Romera
Populismos, auge de la extrema derecha y crisis de la deomocracia liberal, reviewed by Carlos Zeller Orellana
Rapport sur les inégalites mondiales 2018. https://wir2018.wid.world/, reviewed by Carlos Zeller Orellana
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Social Conflict Yearbook 2017
Editors: María Trinidad Bretones (UB), Jaime Pastor (UNED), Carlos A. Charry Joya (University of Antioquia), Joan Quesada (UB), Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte (Alberto Hurtado Univ.), Sandra Vera (Univ. of Chile)
Long-Run Conflicts, María Trinidad Bretones & Joan Quesada
Section I: Focal Conflicts of the Year
Mobilization, Repression and Ballot: Tracing the Key Elements of the Self-Determination Referendum on October 1, 2017 in Catalonia, Arkaitz Letamendia
Section II: Structures, Processes and Conditions for Conflict
Europe in the Face of the Muslim Headscarf. An Approximation to the Debate from the Perspective of Women’s Rights, Núria Roca Farré
Banana Production and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Atlantic/Caribbean Region of Costa Rica. 1950-2017, Edgar Blanco Obando
Section III: Taking Stock of the Year and General Consequences for Social Change
Taking Stock of the Violent Deaths Taking Place in the Context of Political Unrest in Venezuela between April and July 2017, Keymer Ávila, Natalia Gan
Taking Stock of Inequality and Public Expenditure in Spain. Open Space of Social Struggle, Albert Ferrer Sánchez
Book Reviews
¿Una política sin clases? El post-marxismo y su legado. Meiksins Wood, Ellen. Buenos Aires: Ediciones ryr, 2013, reviewed by Genís Plana Joya
La gran huelga general. El sindicalismo contra "la modernización socialista". Sergio Gálvez Biesca. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2017, reviewed by Luis Roca
Marx's validity in his 200th anniversary, Antoni Puig Solé
Feminisms in the face of the war against women of the Global South, Carlos Zeller Orellana
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Social Conflict Yearbook 2016
Editors: María Trinidad Bretones (UB), Jaime Pastor (UNED), Carlos A. Charry Joya (University of Antioquia), Joan Quesada (UB), Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte (Alberto Hurtado Univ.), Sandra Vera (Univ. of Chile)
Section I: Focal Conflicts of the Year
Ne da(vi)mo Beograd: an example of social conflict within the Serbian society, Miguel Rodriguez-Andreu
The case of the Chilean Students Movement, Bajoit Guy, Vanhulst Julien
«A fight by zones». The illegal occupation and the creation of space in ZAD area in Notre-Dame-Des-Landes, Margot Verdier
The Independence Outside the Catalan Frontiers: The Transnational Nature of the Catalan Independence Movement, Johana Trujillo
To Make Peace Possible, More Guarantees for Social Prostest. The Context of Working-Class and Trade-Union Protest in Colombia, Viviana Colorado-López, Mariana Ortíz-Usma, Sandra Milena-Muñoz
Section II: Structures, Processes and Conditions for Conflict
The construction of hegemony: The current links between the economic elite and the press in Chile, Nicolás Marticorena
Section III: Taking Stock of the Year and General Consequences for Social Change
Massive social movements and processes not intended, Fernando Longo Cardoso Dias, María Trinidad Bretones-Esteban
Book Reviews
Años de esperanza en el Chile de 1970. Los años de Allende. Carlos Reyes (textos) y Rodrigo Elgueta (ilustraciones). Novela gráfica. Hueders, Santiago de Chile, 2016, reviewed by Carlos Zeller-Orellana
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Social Conflict Yearbook 2015
Editors: María Trinidad Bretones (UB), Jaime Pastor (UNED), Carlos A. Charry Joya (University of Antioquia), Joan Quesada (UB)
It includes the following sections: 1. Power, violence and victims; 2. Peace processes and mediation processes in conflicts;
3. Social conflicts vs. political conflicts; 4. De-democratization and radicalization; 5. Crime and its connection to conflict;
6. Prostests for gender equality; 7. Social mobilization and new politics
With articles by: Danilo Ricardo Rosero Fuentes, Andrés Suárez, William Darío Chará Ordóñez, Josefina Bergues, Carlos Andrés Charry, Unaldo Coquies & Rotsen Méndez, Jorge Ignacio Vásquez & José Manuel Ferreiro, Felipe Maia Guimarâes da Silva, Michael Briguglio, María Troya Porras, Albert Ferrer Sánchez, Carlos Rontomé Romero, Joan Linio, Luis Navarro Ardoy & Manuel Caro Cabrera, Astrid Elena Arrubla Montoya, Verònica Gisbert Gracia, Ferran Giménez Azagra.
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Social Conflict Yearbook 2014
Editors: María Trinidad Bretones (UB), Jaime Pastor (UNED), Carlos A. Charry Joya (University of Antioquia)
It includes the following sections: 1. Conflicts for dignity and in defence of the commons; 2. Student protests; 3. Conflicts for democracy; 4. Challenges to the nation-state; 5. Other violences; 6. Peace processes; 7. Labour protests and crisis; 8. Historical memory; 9. Taking stock for year 2014; 10. Notes
With articles by: Ana Cristina Aguirre Calleja, Grecia Guzmán Martínez & Raúl Alejandro López Soto; Felipe Gutiérrez Ríos; Jacobo Abellán Bordallo; Anahy Gajardo; Andrea Echeverri; Massimo Modonesi & Samuel González Contreras; Roberto Cilleros & Gómer Betancor; Fernando De la Cuadra; Carlos Azocar; Juan Huerva Subirats; Joan Vicens Sard; Dolors Bramón; Joan Linio; Meritxell Martínez Riera, Mario Zubiaga; Meritxell Martínez Riera & Mario Zubiaga; Marc Sanjaume-Calvet; Teresa Bladé Costa; Edgar Straehle; Juan Mario Mario Solis Delagadillo & Sarah Patricia Cerna Villagra; Carlos Andrés Charry-Joya; Viviana Colorado-López & Pablo Pérez-Taborda; Cristiano Procentese & María Pilar Sabio-Esquiroz; Mauro Basaure; Cristina Inés Bettanin; Ramón Adell-Argilés & Alberto Olayo-Yestera; Carlos Ruíz-Encina & Giorgio Boccardo; Firmin Dusabe; Salvador Aguilar Solé; Ricard Vinyes.
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Social Conflict Yearbook 2013
Editors: Jaime Pastor (UNED), Nicolás Rojas-Pedemonte (UAH, Chile)
It includes the following sections: 1. Democratization, de-democratization and open conflicts in the Near East and Africa; 2. The Indignado movement in Spain; 3. Social crisis and urban revolts; 4. Student revolts around the world; 5. Conflict and change in nations without a state: Euskal Herria and Catalonia; 6. Split societies: potential macrosocial and political changes; 7. Gender-related conflicts; 8. Labor/union movement and people's reactions in the face of the crisis and the neoliberal reforms; 9. Socio-environmental conflicts; 10. Historical memory and post-dictatorships; 11. Social conflict and social change: balance of year 2013.
With articles by: Joan Linio, Santiago Alba, Judith Nahrwold & Sezen Bayhan, Saygun Gokariksel, Óscar Mateos, Ramon Adell & Alberto Olayo, Jaime Pastor, Gomer Betancor & Roberto Cilleros, Lluís Mangot, Juan Bostelmann, Joaquim Fulleda, Vassiliki Georgiadou & Lamprini Rori, Carlos I. Azocar, César A. Ruiz, Thomas Chiasson-LeBel, Aikaitz Letamendia, Alain C. Gagnon & Marc Sanjaume, Joan Domènech, Josep Maria Antentas, Maurici Archila et al, Carlos A. Charry, Marco Antonio Ponce, Leandro Gamallo & Julián Rebón, Paloma Caravantes & Pilar Goñalons, Susana Galán, Kathryn Lum, Holm-Detlev Köhler & Estrella González, Bernard Riutort, Teresa Morlà, Ana C. Soto & Alexandra Urán, Felipe Pizarro, David H. Corrochano, Juan Mario Solís, Isabel Piper, Ricard Vinyes, Sandra Vera, Dan La Botz, Massimo Modonesi, Asbjorn Wahl.
With video-interviews with: Joan Carles Gallego, Josep Maria Álvarez, Just Casas (by Joan Quesada), and Rodolfo Stavenhagen (by Guiomar Rovira).
Social Conflict Yearbook 2012
Editors: Salvador Aguilar (UB), María T. Bretones (UB)
It includes the following sections: 1. Political revolutions and democratizing wave in the Arab countries; 2. The Indignado movement; 3. Interethnic conflicts and anomic revolts; 4. Student protests around the world; 5. New right-wing extresmisms; 6. Conflict and change in nations without a state; 7. Split societies: macrosocial and political changes under way; 8. Gender-related conflicts; 9. Labor movement's actions and transformations; 10. Class cleavage: people's reactions in the face of the crisis and the austerity measures, 2007-2012; 11. Socio-environmental conflicts; 12. Episodes for peace and historical memory; 13. Social conflict and social change: balance of year 2012.
With articles by: Joan Linio, Òscar Monterde, Mona Makram- Ebeid, Mercedes G. Jiménez, Pere Grané, Emanuel Bran Guzman, Iván Kudryashev, Jaime Pastor, Josep Maria Antentas, Luisa Martín Rojo, Naama Nagar, Juan Bostelmann, Juan de La Haba & Enrique Santamaría, Carlos Ignacio Azócar Ortiz, Guiomar Rovira Sancho, Martha Cecilia García, Elizabeth Pis, Jean-Yves Camus, Salvador Giner, Joan Subirats i Humet & Ricard Vilaregut Sáez, Blanca Serra i Puig, Aitor Díaz Anabitate & Ruben Moliné Jorge, Pedro Ibarra, Arkaitz Letamendia, Igor Ahedo Gurrutxaga, Benjamí Bastida, Armando Chaguaceda & Marco Antonio Ponce, Yanko Moyano Díaz, Carlos A. Charry, Sandra Hincapié & Jairo López, Paloma Carabantes, Pilar Goñalons, Ana González, Rubén Vega Garcia, Beltrán Roca Martinez & Ibán Díaz Parra, Leandro Gamallo, Salvador Aguilar, João Protásio, Maria T. Bretones, Holm-Detlev Köhler et al, Francisco Letamendia, Angie Gago, Jaume Asens & Gerardo Pisarello, Laura Fernández de Mosteyrín, Ximena Cuadra Montoya, Dunia Mokrani & Pilar Uriona, Janice Gallargher, Sandra Vera Gajardo, Enrique Gil Calvo, Massimo Modonesi, Dan La Botz.
With video-interviews with: Sami Naïr, Ada Colau, Manuel Antonio Garretón, Guiomar Rovira, Stéphane Rozes
Social Conflict Yearbook 2011
Editor: Salvador Aguilar (UB)
It includes the following sections: 1. The Arab revolutions; 2. The Indignado movement; 3. The Summer revolts in London; 4. Old and new conflicts in Latin America; 5. Nationalist conflicts in the Spanish state; 6. New right-wing extremisms; 7. Social conflict and change: balance of year 2011.
With articles by: Salvador Aguilar, María Trinidad Bretones, Jaime Pastor, Manuel Castells, Samir Amin, Stephen Maher, Juliet B. Schor, Salvador Giner, Sidney Tarrow, Noami Klein, Yotam Maron, Pere Grané, Nicolás Rojas Pedemonte, Sandra Vera, Massimo Modonesi, Jairo A. López Pacheco, Melvy Quiroz, Lourdes Sandoval, Antoni Batista, Arkaitz Letamendia, Xavier Casals, María Jesus Funes.
With video-interviews with: Salvador Giner, Arcadi Oliveres, Miren Etxezarreta, Josep Maria Antentas, Clàudia Àlvarez, Enric Duran.
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