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What Do Lithics Tell Us About Cultural Evolution? Insights From the Central African Record

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Western historical narratives often incorporate a biased vision of human evolution—driven by a progressive view tied to a progressively evolving state of culture—this paper proposes combining archaeological lithic data with epistemological reflections to critique the modern regime of historicity, where progress is assumed as rational ...
Isis Isabella Mesfin
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Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
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Grabbing the wind? Assetisation of land and enclosure of wind rights in the Outer Hebrides

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Land has become an increasingly contested resource for the deployment of renewable energy facilities. This paper introduces the notion of ‘wind grabbing’ to explore the intricate interplay between landownership and entitlements to utilise wind energy.
David Rudolph, Laura Tolnov Clausen
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Contested Memories in Stone: The Memorial Landscape of Waterloo Battlefield

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Short Abstract This article examines the Waterloo battlefield as a spatially contested memorial landscape shaped by competing national and transnational narratives. Through GIS mapping and inscription analysis, it demonstrates how spatial arrangements and commemorative rhetoric reproduce different narratives while enabling grassroots actors ...
Bowen Chai
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Creating Home Territories During Housing Relocation: Affects and Activity Rhythms

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ABSTRACT This paper expands understandings of home by developing the concept of home territory to comprehend the experiences of older adults who experienced housing relocation and how they reconstituted a sense of home. The study draws on the experiences of 41 older adults who underwent the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) in Singapore ...
Siyao Gao, Elaine Lynn‐Ee Ho
wiley   +1 more source

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