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Tewdwr: Eponymous Ancestor of the Tudor Dynasty
History, EarlyView.Abstract The standard derivation of the dynastic name Tudor from Welsh Tudur, surname of the grandfather of Henry VII, is problematic on phonological grounds, as well as the fact that Tudur was never used as a surname by Henry himself, being attributed to him only by his enemies with implication of lowly origins.
DAFYDD JOHNSTON
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Polish borderlands in times of uncertainty. A handful of socio-cultural scenes and reflections [PDF]
Annales Scientia PoliticaThis article attempts to examine a series of events that have taken place in the Polish borderlands over the last decade and which have been directly or indirectly caused by various European or global upheavals (migration crises, the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Marcin Dębicki
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Urban Borderlands: Difference, Inequality, and Spatio-Temporal In-Betweenness in Cities
Urban PlanningThe concept of urban borderlands helps us to understand how divisions take place in the city. Urban borderlands expand territorially beyond the mere linear border, drawing together what exists in or across both sides of the divide.
Deljana Iossifova, David Kostenwein
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RhyCycling – Fluid Borderland [PDF]
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2013 The river Rhine as a flowing border area forms the boundaries of communities cantons and countries from its origin in Grison/Eastern Switzerland until its entrance into the sea in Rotterdam. It is water and power provider living and working space an ecologically socio economically and culturally diverse microcosm.
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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EVALUATION METHODS OF BONE CONDITION [PDF]
Acta Tecnología, 2019 The article presents research methods for bone damage diagnosis by osteoporosis. We describe in detail densitometric methods such as DEXA tests, SXA method, Quantitative Computed Tomography (QCT) and Quantitative UltraSound (QUS) method.
Kornelia Zaborowska +5 more
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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Bonds, Bounds, and Borders: Crafting Hospitality with Unauthorized Migrants in Southern France
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes the everyday politics of migrant hospitality in rural Southern France. Drawing on four years of fieldwork alongside benevolent residents hosting unauthorized migrants at their home or volunteering in migrant shelters, I consider how residents attempted to make up for the state's abandonment of migrant lives, the ethical ...
Céline Eschenbrenner
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While ‘local’ research assistants (RA) often play a key role in knowledge production in fieldwork‐based disciplines like geography, their role and agency often remain silenced. This paper brings together scholarship in feminist geography and critical development studies to reposition RAs as brokers, collaborators, and knowledge translators.
Zali Fung
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