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Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's environmental governance transition combines intensified vertical accountability and performance‐based management with expanding calls for public participation. However, despite growing demand for civic engagement, there remains limited understanding of how participatory environmental initiatives are structured and governed in practice.
Linjun Xie, Mengqi Shao, Gaohan Deng
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New Evidence for Early Silk in the Indus Civilization [PDF]
, 2008 Silk is an important economic fiber, and is generally considered to have been the exclusive cultural heritage of China. Silk weaving is evident from the Shang period, though the earliest evidence for silk textiles in ancient China dates to more than a ...
Irene L. Good +2 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Islamic Philosophy and the Challenge of Post Modernism: A Sociological Perspective [PDF]
This paper briefly describes the Post Modernism philosophy, introduces the work of its key proponents, provides a critical appraisal of Post Modernism thought and finally it compares the Post Modernism philosophy with philosophical heritage of Islamic ...
Shaikh, Salman Ahmed
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Jumping the energetics queue: Modulation of pulsar signals by extraterrestrial civilizations
, 2014 It has been speculated that technological civilizations evolve along an energy consumption scale first formulated by Kardashev, ranging from human-like civilizations that consume energy at a rate of $\sim 10^{19}$ erg s$^{-1}$ to hypothetical highly ...
Chennamangalam, Jayanth +3 more
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Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
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Education as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on Will Kymlicka's account of solidarity and membership through the lens of conflict over public schooling in San Francisco. It contrasts a Marshallian vision of society as a shared possession capable of sustaining democratic solidarity and welfare institutions with an anti‐Marshallian politics that sees the language of ...
Margaret Kohn
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5. Rome: The Decline of the Roman Empire
, 1958 The decline of the Roman Empire is a theme which has captured the imagination of countless men . The Roman achievement, both in its material and cultural aspects, was of such magnitude that its passing invites consideration on that account alone.
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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Society as Reality and Construction: Decolonial Citizenship‐Making
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Kymlicka asks whether the Marshallian vision of society‐ and membership‐making remains relevant when thinking about possible Indigenous futures. In this article, I first respond to this question. Given the meticulousness of Kymlicka's analysis, my response should be read as complementary, offering additional considerations that I think warrant
Rauna Kuokkanen
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