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The social representation of the identity perception among China’s new social strata: a central nucleus analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
IntroductionChina’s new social strata represent a critical demographic for social governance, with shared identity perceptions serving as a cohesive force for group solidarity and behavioral regulation.MethodsThis study employed a word association task ...
Li-Ju Li   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Geoweb-Based Tagging System for Borderlands Data Acquisition

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015
Borderlands modeling and understanding depend on both spatial and non-spatial data, which were difficult to obtain in the past. This has limited the progress of borderland-related research.
Hanfa Xing, Jun Chen, Xiaoguang Zhou
doaj   +1 more source

Executive Order 13492: Legal Borderlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
On January 22, 2009, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama implemented Executive Order 13492. The order refers to the legal disposition of detainees at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and the termination of the detention center.
Diaz, Laura
core   +1 more source

Informality, Trade Policies And Smuggling In West Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In West Africa, recorded intra-regional trade is small but informal cross-border trade (ICBT) is pervasive, despite regional integration schemes intended to promote official trade.
Benjamin, N.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source

Moving in a hierarchized landscape Changing border regimes in Central Kalimantan

open access: yesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2011
Transnational mobility is a common feature among borderland communities. Central Borneo has been a relatively fluid and open riverine-based socio-cultural and economic space since the arrival of colonial states, without much interference from the ...
Dave Lumenta
doaj   +1 more source

Terrestrial climate variability and seasonality changes in the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP deduced from marine pollen records [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Pollen-based climate reconstructions were performed on two high-resolution pollen marines cores from the Alboran and Aegean Seas in order to unravel the climatic variability in the coastal settings of the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 ...
Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie   +6 more
core   +4 more sources

Selling soldiering: Marketisation, gender complementarity and the promise of military femininity in 1990s Sweden

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the first large‐scale attempts to recruit women as soldiers and officers in 1990s Sweden, focusing on the techniques and promises employed by the Swedish Armed Forces (SAF). Building on a wide range of documents and audiovisual sources, we demonstrate how the SAF utilised various marketing techniques, including ...
Sanna Strand, Fia Cottrell‐Sundevall
wiley   +1 more source

Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia's Southwestern Borderlands [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Explores the relationship between the Ukrainian nation-building process and the tsarist ...
Faith Hillis
core   +1 more source

National identity after conquest

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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