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Abstract Current precipitation analysis focuses on extreme events or total amounts but misses a critical question: when does the majority of precipitation occur during the year? We introduce a framework that separates two fundamental aspects of precipitation patterns: how many of the wettest individual days contribute to annual totals versus what is ...
Saurav Bhattarai +2 more
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Abstract High‐pressure rocks from subduction complexes are key records of the physical and chemical processes that operate on the subduction interface, but interpretation of these records requires accurate structural understanding of where they formed in the subduction zone and the mechanisms by which they were exhumed. We present new geologic mapping,
Jordan W. Wang +5 more
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Archival Narrative Justice in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) captures the challenges that “lost”, or undocumented children experience in their attempts to cross the US-Mexico border and provides a stringent critique of the unjust and arbitrary nature of border laws ...
Dharshani Lakmali Jayasinghe
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National identity after conquest
Abstract Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those ...
Christopher Carter, Daniel W. Gingerich
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A consciência mestiza de Gloria Anzaldúa: por uma outra epistemologia
Como reconhecem as teorias e as críticas literária, cultural e comparada, na contemporaneidade, o mundo ocidental e em particular para a reflexão no subcontinente latino-americano, a abordagem epistêmica dá-se como matriz de expressões tais como: “outra
Humberto Igor Kudo +1 more
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MÁS ALLÁ DEL CENTRO Y LA PERIFERIA: LA FRONTERA SUR DE MÉXICO A DEBATE DESDE LA GLOBALIZACIÓN
El artículo examina analíticamente el concepto y la realidad vivida de la frontera sur de México en el contexto de los debates contemporáneos sobre las fronteras con el objetivo de indagar qué tan periférica sigue siendo actualmente. Indagando la llamada
Hanna Laako
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Transnationalism and borderlands: conceps of space on the US-Mexico border and beyond
Transnationalism and Borderlands: Concepts of Space on the US-Mexico Border and Beyond. This paper problematizes the linkage between studies of international borders and studies of transnationalism.
Anne J. Goldberg
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Michael Dear’s Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film offers a profound engagement with a phenomenon he calls the border film genre—in this case, seventy-two films (produced in a span of more than one century) and the ...
Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas
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Border water culture in theory and practice: political behavior on the Mexico-U.S. border
This articles examines water politics and the creation of a "transborder water culture" along the western end of the Mexico-U.S. border. In global debates over water, some observers see the need to construct water "cultures" that reinforce conservation ...
Carmen Maganda
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Tearing the Land From Underfoot: Environmental Racism at the Northern French Border
ABSTRACT Much attention has been devoted to the infliction of hostile environments on people on the move in political and discursive terms. However, less attention has been paid to the cultivation of physically hostile environments where they dwell. Building on critical border and environmental justice studies, this article examines how the natural ...
Maria Hagan
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