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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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On Making Descendant Communities: Three Case Studies From Historical Bioarchaeology. [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Warner-Smith AL, Hosek LR, Ellis MAB.
europepmc   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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Zuun Baruun Kherem, a medieval Eurasian center in Eastern Mongolia. [PDF]

Asian Archaeol
Wright J, Pursey L, Pleuger-Dreibrodt S, Misterkiewicz A, Byambatsuren B, Green EJ.   +5 more
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic. [PDF]

Nature
Marsh WA, Scarsbrook L, Yüncü E, Hodgson L, Lin AT, De Iorio M, Thalmann O, Thomas MG, Goor M, Bergström A, Noseda A, Amiri S, Biglari F, Borić D, Bougiouri K, Carmagnini A, Giannì M, Higham T, Lebrasseur O, Linderholm A, Mannino MA, Middleton C, Mustafaoğlu G, Perri A, Peters J, Richards M, Sarıtaş Ö, Skoglund P, Stevens RE, Stringer C, Tabbada K, Talbot HM, Van der Sluis LG, Bello SM, Dimitrijevic V, Martin L, Mashkour M, Parfitt SA, Vukovic S, Brace S, Craig OE, Baird D, Charlton S, Larson G, Barnes I, Frantz LAF.   +45 more
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An Economic and Environmental Analysis of Virtual Fencing for Precision Grazing

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The UK grazing livestock sector is challenged by declining farm profitability and stringent environmental policy. Innovative technologies such as virtual fencing could enable a balanced economic and environmental performance of beef production. Virtual fencing is a livestock management tool relying on invisible boundaries perceived as auditory,
Elias Maritan, Karl Behrendt, Sarah Morgan, Steven Mark Rutter, James Lowenberg‐DeBoer   +4 more
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Maya Postclassic persistence in the Birds of Paradise Wetland Fields, Belize. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Sánchez-Morales LM, Beach TP, Luzzadder-Beach S, Krause S, Cook D, Smith B, Lentz D, Quiroz C, Pratt W, Phillips L, Guderjan T, Hanratty C, Valdez F.   +12 more
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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