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Spatial Practices in Borderlands: Bottom-Up Experiences and Their Influence on Border Communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Differences and conflicts are most evident at borderlands, which act as balancing tools to organize and filter economic and migratory flows. The increased militarization of these areas, which often requires creating empty spaces next to the fences ...
Cimadomo, Guido
core   +1 more source

Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

The state and perspectives of development of the domestic shipbuilding in the North in the first half of the 19th century through the eyes of provincial officials (data of the State Archive of the Arkhangelsk region) [PDF]

open access: yesАрктика и Север, 2019
Based on the data from the State Archive of the Arkhangelsk Region, the article assesses the status of merchant and folk Pomor shipbuilding in the North in the 20th century.
Maksim Yu. Zadorin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Art and Design of Collaborative Autoethnography: Exploring Disciplinary, Methodological and Collaborative Complexity in Education Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract In collaborative research, the ways in which complexity is acknowledged, negotiated and managed actively shape the nature of the complexity that is created and experienced. However, reports on complex projects seldom detail how challenges relating to research design or execution were navigated, nor discuss how frictions or tensions might ...
Suzanne Crowley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geospatial concepts of “border”, “borderlands”, “transborderlands”: modernization of the meaning

open access: yesJournal of Geography, Politics and Society, 2017
In this article, a terminological analysis of the ambivalent geospatial concepts of “border”, “border zone”, which are characterized by a long synonymic row and simultaneously have the semantic load of lines, strips of separation as well as interaction ...
Myroslava Vlakh , Olha Mamchur
doaj   +1 more source

Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
wiley   +1 more source

Intersectionality queer studies and hybridity: methodological frameworks for social research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article seeks to draw links between intersectionality and queer studies as epistemological strands by examining their common methodological tasks and by tracing some similar difficulties of translating theory into research methods. Intersectionality
Fotopoulou, Aristea
core   +4 more sources

Transfronterizo Teachers of English in the Borderlands: Creating a Mundo Zurdo

open access: yesProfile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development
Cross-border migration is increasing in a globalized world. On the physical borderlands, migration across and between borders occurs on a habitual basis.
Isaac Frausto-Hernandez
doaj   +1 more source

GIS-Based Borderlands Modeling and Understanding: A Perspective

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015
Borderland regions are special areas and deserve more attention in global sustainable development. Reliable geo-information and effective analysis tools are requested to support borderlands studies through the integrated utilization of geospatial ...
Jun Chen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond the Binary of Formal and Informal: Negotiating Hybrid Land Control by Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As transnational land investments continue to expand across the Global South, land governance in many settings is shifting from largely informal arrangements towards greater formalization. However, we know less about how entrepreneurs sustain and rework land control as host states tighten regulation and introduce new formal requirements and ...
Ben Fan, Xiaobo Hua, Yasuyuki Kono
wiley   +1 more source

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