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“Je ne vous ferai point ici la description de la maison de Saint-Lazare” : pratique et politique de la frontière carcérale chez Chapelle

open access: yesLes Dossiers du GRIHL, 2011
In his prison writings, Chapelle recounts his incarceration at Saint-Lazare, in response to the indictments of his aunts, ‘the sisters of M. Lhuillier’.
Judith Sribnai
doaj   +1 more source

Follow Me Into Math: Near‐Peer Influencers Take the Stage

open access: yesSchool Science and Mathematics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Young people like to be entertained, and to entertain others. What if students were to invest enough of their time and effort into learning topics from our mathematics courses to become experts in the eyes of their peers? In this study we positioned college students and high school students as mathematical performers on the stage in front of ...
Aaron T. Wilson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fluid Borders, Concrete Locations: Epicenters of Cross-Cultural Interaction in the Eighteenth Century Borderland of the Great Lakes

open access: yes, 2013
In a recent article on the advent of borderlands history as a prominent field of historical scholarship, Pekka Hämäläinen and Samuel Truett described borderlands as “realms where boundaries are also crossroads, peripheries are also central places ...
Nelson, John W.
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The Lesser Poland version of Silesian folk costume Attitudes towards the Cieszyn folk costume displayed by regionalists east of the Biała River in the 21 st century

open access: yesŁódzkie Studia Etnograficzne
The Cieszyn folk costume, also referred to as the Silesian or the Valachian costume, is an important element of the cultural heritage of Cieszyn Silesia.
Tymoteusz Król
doaj   +1 more source

When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
wiley   +1 more source

Forward [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This special issue of Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands highlights a series of essays and creative work presented at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco conference at the University of Texas, Pan American in ...
Hernandez, Sonia, McMahon, Marci
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Environmental Resource Management in Borderlands: Evolution from Competing Interests to Common Aversions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Great enthusiasm is attached to the emergence of cross-border regions (CBRs) as a new institutional arrangement for dealing with local cross-border environmental resource management and other issues that remain too distant from national capitals and/or ...
Belec, John   +2 more
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Excerpt from Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2012
José David Saldívar’s work, excerpted from Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico, focuses on Américo Paredes, whom he refers to as a “proto-Chicano.” Here he discusses Paredes’s columns written ...
José David Saldívar
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
wiley   +1 more source

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