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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

The Symbolic Organisation of Political Antagonism: An Integrative Model of Cultural and Social Polarisation

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article develops a cultural and relational model of political polarisation that integrates insights from currently disconnected streams of scholarship to conceive polarisation as a discursive and performative struggle over sacred meanings.
Werner Binder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interactional privilege of violence: Status and interaction in the street field

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Criminologists have long described and theorized the relationship between status, respect, and violence within urban communities. Although this finding is generally accepted within criminology, ethnographic empirical illustrations of this phenomenon are sparse.
Hakan Kalkan, Heith Copes
wiley   +1 more source

Efficient Masked Autoencoder for Birdsong Representation with Applications on Wild Bird Species Classification

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Research on mosquito feeding preferences and the malaria parasites they transmit is essential for understanding the interactions between hosts, vectors, and parasites. In this study, vertebrate hosts were identified in 72 mosquitoes. Most blood meals (58.7%) came from birds, representing 25 species, while 40.0% came from mammals (13 species), and 1.3 ...
Qin Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Negotiations Under Scrutiny: Are UNFCCC COPs Up To the Challenge?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) plays a crucial role in global efforts to tackle the climate crisis. At annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs) and intersessional meetings, the international community gathers to advance climate policy and action.
Franziska Petri, Jan Karlas
wiley   +1 more source

The EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy: Perspectives From Australia

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines perceptions in Australia of the European Union's Indo‐Pacific Strategy, drawing on interviews conducted with government officials, experts and civil society actors. The EU is regarded positively as a friend and partner of Australia and equally committed to the maintenance of the rules‐based international order. Conversely,
Anne McNaughton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing Clearly or Bracing for Impact? The Tug‐of‐War Between Neutrality and Conservatism in Financial Reporting Voir clair ou se préparer à l'impact? Le bras de fer entre neutralité et conservatisme en matière d'information financière

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing debate exists between neutrality and conservatism in financial reporting. This debate has gained momentum following the 2010 FASB decision to remove the term conservatism from its Conceptual Framework. While neutrality is now promoted as a cornerstone of faithful representation, conservatism remains embedded in numerous ...
Rahat Jafri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Black Accountants' Pursuit of Partnership La quête de l'accession au statut d'associé des comptables de race noire

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent AICPA surveys indicate disproportionate attrition among Black professionals attaining partnership in US public accounting firms, underscoring the need to better understand their experiences. Despite repeated calls for examination, understanding of these experiences remains limited, partly due to the difficulty in accessing the few Black
Jennifer Joe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

WAH‐i: Optimising microphone array geometry for customised localisation accuracy

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Accurate spatial localisation of free‐flying echolocating bats is foundational for resolving fine‐scale flight and echolocation behaviour, prey interception and spatial decision‐making in natural environments. Acoustic localisation using microphone arrays is widely employed for this purpose, yet array geometries in field studies are typically ...
Ravi Umadi
wiley   +1 more source

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