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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Revue Forestière Française, 2018 En Suisse, la demande de bois croît. Toutefois, la politique fédérale encourage la protection des ressources forestières du pays et le public considère les fonctions sociales et écologiques de la forêt comme prioritaires. Cet article étudie la perception
Nicolas Borzykowski, Alicja Kacprzak
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Savoirs locaux sur les usages et les propriétés technologiques des bois de construction dans les bas-oyapock [PDF]
, 2014 En Guyane, 96% du territoire est couvert par une forêt tropicale humide qui compte plus de 1600 espèces de ligneux (Molino 2009). Malgré cette grande biodiversité, trois essences de bois seulement (Angélique, Gonfolo, Grignon) représente plus de 70% du ...
Beauchêne, Jacques +4 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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On the oscillations in Mercury's obliquity
, 2007 One major objective of MESSENGER and BepiColombo spatial missions is to accurately measure Mercury's rotation and its obliquity in order to obtain constraints on internal structure of the planet.
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What is social science if not critical?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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The Ascent of Man? Emil du Bois-Reymond's Reflections on Scientific Progress [PDF]
, 2000 Triumphalist histories of science are nothing new but were, in fact, a staple of the 19th century. This article considers one of the more famous works in the genre and argues that it was motivated by doubt more than by ...
Finkelstein, Gabriel
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
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Annals of Applied Biology, EarlyView.‘Candidatus Phytoplasma (Ca. P.) solani’ is associated with bois noir (BN) of grapevine and stolbur of solanaceous plants and is primarily transmitted by Hyalesthes obsoletus Signoret. Four tuf‐a and five tuf‐b1 ‘Ca. P. solani’ strains were transmitted to tomato plants (cv. Micro‐Tom) by using bait‐plants and by capturing H.
Gaia Carminati +7 more
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