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Marine resource procurement as everyday resistance in Ireland during the Great Hunger (1845-1852). [PDF]

Int J Marit Hist
Schwalbe E, Connolly R, Chapple S, Holm P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

Droughts and conflicts during the late Roman period. [PDF]

Clim Change
Norman C, Schwinden L, Krusic P, Rzepecki A, Bebchuk T, Büntgen U.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Guiding differently for travelling like them: the Egyptian-Ottoman publicist Safa and his 1913 Arabic guidebook to the late Ottoman capital. [PDF]

J Tour Hist
Okan OC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire. [PDF]

Sci Data
de Soto P, Pažout A, Brughmans T, Vahlstrup PB, Auir Á, Bongers T, Christoffersen JEB, Crépy M, Johansen MH, Lewis J, Manière L, Massa MR, Møller LMH, Redon B, Renda G, Şahin H, Sobotková A, Spatzek AL, Verhagen P, Weissova B.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
wiley   +1 more source

Smallpox in Greece: A Narrative Review. [PDF]

Cureus
Christodoulou MK.
europepmc   +1 more source