Spatial Practices in Borderlands: Bottom-Up Experiences and Their Influence on Border Communities [PDF]
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
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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld
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
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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]
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
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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
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Geospatial concepts of “border”, “borderlands”, “transborderlands”: modernization of the meaning
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
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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
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Intersectionality queer studies and hybridity: methodological frameworks for social research [PDF]
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
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Transfronterizo Teachers of English in the Borderlands: Creating a Mundo Zurdo
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
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GIS-Based Borderlands Modeling and Understanding: A Perspective
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
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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
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