Digital Folklore and Digital Fieldwork: Researching Online Humour with Its Offline Context in Mind
The digitalization of folklore has transformed the practices of folklorists’ ethnographic fieldwork. Drawing on the experience of collecting digital family humour, the article discusses the peculiarities of digital folklore, its interconnections with ...
Anastasiya Fiadotava
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Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining: Evidence From Germany
ABSTRACT We analyze how rising trade exposure from China and Eastern Europe affected collective bargaining coverage in German plants from 1996 to 2008. Using cross‐industry variation in trade exposure and instrumenting with trade flows from other high‐income countries, we find that higher import exposure increased the likelihood that plants exited ...
Daniel Baumgarten, Sybille Lehwald
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ABSTRACT Background The international mobility of nurses is a significant component of healthcare systems worldwide, resulting in the global recruitment and adaptation of culturally and linguistically diverse nurses into diverse work environments. CALD nurses face integration challenges, which can potentially compromise their well‐being and adjustment ...
Judith Yabal +3 more
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Financing Firm Start-up and Restructuring in Transition Countries: Evidence from Belarus, the Ukraine and Russia [PDF]
Investigates how entrepreneurs in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine finance start-up and restructuring. Data from 600 de novo, privatised or state-owned firms shows the critical importance of the personal funds of the main owner(s), with a limited level of ...
Valentijn Bilsen, Elena Mitina
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The EuroNest Parliamentary Assembly: The European Parliament as a Socializer of its Counterparts in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood? EU Diplomacy Paper 05/2013 [PDF]
This paper examines the EU-Neighbourhood East Parliamentary Assembly (EuroNest PA), an inter-parliamentary forum consisting of representatives from the European Parliament (EP) and from all Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries except Belarus, aiming at ...
Vandecasteele, Bruno, Kostanyan, Hrant.
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Beyond Formal Agreements: EU Agencies' Cooperation with Third Countries
ABSTRACT Third countries' participation in European Union (EU) agencies is attracting increasing attention as venues for differentiated European integration. Research has started to vest into the host of formal agreements regulating this cooperation. However, regulatory outreach by EU agencies may be more important than it is stated de jure, as many ...
Thibaud Deruelle +2 more
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Digital Economy Development in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Eurasian Economic Union
In the article the directions of development of digital economy in Kyrgyzstan and the Eurasian economic Union.
S. N. Belousov
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The aim of the article is to highlight the issue of decolonisation and (as proposed by the author: deimperialisation) of Central and Eastern Europe through the need to research the imperial influence of Russia on other Slavic nations, including, above ...
Joanna Getka
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From the Ground to the Stars: The Vertical Politics of the EU Drone Wall and Airspace Defence
Abstract This research note analyses the European Commission's Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030 as a manifestation of a new spatial and technological logic of European defence: the vertical territorialisation of security. Moving beyond traditional perimeter‐based understandings of territorial defence, the Roadmap constructs a multi‐layered continuum ...
Justinas Lingevicius +2 more
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The End Of The Myth of a brotherly Belarus? Russian soft power in Belarus after 2014: the background and its manifestations. OSW STUDIES 58 November 2016 [PDF]
The Russian narrative on Belarus changed in 2014, when Russian expert circles and the government elite essentially redefined their perception of their Belarusian ally in the context of the conflict in Ukraine and the escalation of tensions between Moscow
Kłysinski, Kamil, Żochowski, Piotr
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