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Geospatial concepts of “border”, “borderlands”, “transborderlands”: modernization of the meaning
Journal 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
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Working in law’s borderlands: translation and the work of an advice office [PDF]
, 2017 Increasing ly people in the UK are turning to voluntary sector advice organisations for help and support in dealing with everyday problems .
Kirk, Eleanor, McDermont, Morag
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The quarantine window: Atmospheres and anguish at the COVID‐19 borderlands
Area, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper we want to consider border atmospheres—what we understand as the material‐affective and emotional expressions of feeling in the dispersed borderlands of COVID quarantine spaces—through the quarantine hotel window. While the quarantine hotel is a seemingly more benign extension or expansion of the medico‐political border through ...
Mohan Li, Lisheng Weng, Peter Adey
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GIS-Based Borderlands Modeling and Understanding: A Perspective
ISPRS 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
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A People-state Negotiation in a Borderland a Case Study of the Indonesia–Malaysia Frontier in Sebatik Island [PDF]
, 2011 This paper aims to show the dynamics of the Indonesian – Malaysian border area in Sebatik Island, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Take into account as a background is the territorial dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia over the Ligitan and Sipadan Islands
Husain, S. B. (Sarkawi) +1 more
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Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on maps and map‐makers that have shaped linguistic conventions and ideas, suggesting geographers have much to contribute by engaging with such mapping. It illuminates how maps rendered the unpredictable geography of speakers and the naming of places as ...
Beth Williamson, Philip Jagessar
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The Borderlands Wedding in Opole Silesia
Łódzkie Studia Etnograficzne, 2016 In the town of Grodziec, situated near Opole, almost entirely settled by the population coming from the Eastern Borderlands, works the very vigorous “Nasz Grodziec” Association, the purpose of which is saving the Eastern Borderlands’ tradition from ...
Ewa Retecka
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Urban PlanningMy work investigates the spatial transformations generated by conflicting competencies in the border city of Ceuta, a Spanish exclave on the northernmost tip of Morocco.
Mari Paz Agundez
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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld
Development 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
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Acta Baltico-Slavica, 2014 Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Northeastern Borderlands in the light of erudite linguistics The essay contains reflections on the ways of using erudite linguistics, a young discipline created by me, in the study of the Grand ...
Katarzyna Węgorowska
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