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Abstract This article uses election addresses to consider how the early women parliamentary candidates sought to make their case to English voters. It then explores the insights that Mass Observation's election surveys offer into public attitudes to women politicians, and gender and political leadership more broadly, from the late 1930s to the early ...
David Thackeray, Lisa Berry‐Waite
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Who is local and what do they know? Braiding knowledges within carnivore management in Europe
Abstract Growing recognition of Indigenous Peoples and traditional local communities as stewards of biodiversity has brought to the fore the issues of knowledge and value pluralism in conservation policy and practice. Given their basis in practical and multi‐generational experience, Indigenous and local knowledges are highly relevant to managing human ...
Hanna Pettersson+6 more
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‘Had it not been for her’: Gender, Care Labour and Disability in the British Caribbean, 1788–1834
Abstract This article explores the intersections between gender, disability and care labour in the slaveholding societies of the British Caribbean from 1788 to 1834. Considered economic burdens by slaveholders, aged and disabled bondswomen were made productive through caring for their enslaved peers, many of whom were themselves temporarily ...
Stefanie Hunt‐Kennedy
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When organizations create new knowledge and work practices as a reaction to challenges they face, they often have difficulty to adopt these new practices “on the ground”.
Tobias Ley+5 more
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Reciprocal relations in the Karen highlands of northern Thailand
Abstract Karen communities in northern Thailand work to maintain reciprocal relations with the plants, animals and spirits with whom they coexist. They conceive of these relations as essential to the maintenance of community health, food security, and a balanced climate and environment.
Suwichan Phatthanaphraiwan+1 more
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Abstract Negotiating the many, often conflicting, values of biodiversity held by different stakeholders is a key endeavour in terms of integrating values into policy, co‐producing sustainable knowledge and achieving sustainable solutions. This negotiation is affected by stakeholders' agonistic identification processes, in which they express negative ...
Thomas Fickel+2 more
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The Annual Appropriation for Salaries of the Instructing Staff at Bryn Mawr College [PDF]
David Horn
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Appropriation of an Activity-based Flexible Office in Daily Work
In recent years, there has been growing interest in collaborative consumption of office environments and thereby implementation of Activity-based Flexible Offices (A-FOs).
Maral Babapour, M. Karlsson, A. Osvalder
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A theory of appropriateness with applications to generative artificial intelligence [PDF]
What is appropriateness? Humans navigate a multi-scale mosaic of interlocking notions of what is appropriate for different situations. We act one way with our friends, another with our family, and yet another in the office. Likewise for AI, appropriate behavior for a comedy-writing assistant is not the same as appropriate behavior for a customer ...
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Appropriate Nouns with Obligatory Modifiers [PDF]
The notion of appropriate sequence as introduced by Z. Harris provides a powerful syntactic way of analysing the detailed meaning of various sentences, including ambiguous ones. In an adjectival sentence like 'The leather was yellow', the introduction of an appropriate noun, here 'colour', specifies which quality the adjective describes.
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