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This paper examines how the UK state has responded to Scottish demands for a second independence referendum, treating those demands as constitutional contestation and asking whether the state has converted that contestation into deliberative engagement or managed it through deferral, denial, and delegitimisation. Drawing on a longitudinal analysis of ministerial discourse between 2016 and 2026, the paper traces how successive UK Governments – Conservative and Labour – have justified their con...

Launched by the longhouse faction of the Mohawk of the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy in 1969 after Native American activists reasserted their transnational passage rights by blockading the International Bridge connecting the U.S. state of New York and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, the Akwesasne Notes soon became one of the Native North American papers with the largest circulation and served as the flagship periodical of the American Indian radical sovereignty movement throu...

Background and Aim: Nicotine pouches are novel products with rapid global sales growth. Our aim was to explore use and perceptions of nicotine pouches among adolescents in Latin America. Design: Cross-sectional school surveys between March and August 2025. Setting: Sixteen cities, four each in Argentina, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru. Participants: Adolescents aged 12-17 years (n=12,785). Measurements: Use of, and susceptibility to, nicotine pouches, through survey questions about frequen...

Our special journal issue brings together scholars who examine the potential of newspapers, periodicals, and related media for a diversity of interpretations of Native American history. Our contributions range from critiques of settler colonialism and its subversions in periodical cultures to the decolonization of interpretation with Indigenous methodologies—by Indigenous as well as non-Native scholars.