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The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
wiley   +1 more source

Castles in the Air: Sectarian Puritanism, the Revolutionary Caribbean and the Forgotten Colony of New Warwick, Trinidad

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines an overlooked attempt to colonize the island of Trinidad during the English Revolution of the 1640s. This project was engineered by a consortium of radical puritans, seeking to create a protected enclave in the New World for separatists, anabaptists and other sectaries.
DAVID R. COMO
wiley   +1 more source

State of the Field: Scientific Internationalism during the Cold War

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a state‐of‐the‐field assessment of the historiography of scientific internationalism during the Cold War, focusing on three connected problems: the reconceptualization of science diplomacy, the emergence of ‘techno‐dissent’ and the ethical turn in the history of science and technology.
Doubravka Olšáková
wiley   +1 more source

ENVIRONMENTAL STATECRAFT AND CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: Chengdu's Ecological Preservation and Eco‐development

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of environmental statecraft to study changing urban environmental politics in China and beyond. Our review of existing conceptions reveals a growing need to account for temporal and geographical complexity. Neoliberal conceptions of eco‐state restructuring are increasingly strained by contemporary geopolitical
Handuo Deng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

British Attitude towards American expansion in Caribbean

open access: yesمجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019
This paper deals with the nations of British American Struggle in Caribbean. It explains British Navy attitude of American expansion in Caribbean. Then continuation of American expansion in the same place and Britain failure to limit it.
عبدالله حميد العتابي
doaj  

MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Globalization of Qualitative Research: Challenging Anglo-American Domination and Local Hegemonic Discourse

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2012
Over the past decades, scholarly interest has led to publications on the practices and development of qualitative research (QR) in countries outside of the Anglo-American core.
Ping-Chun Hsiung
doaj  

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