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The Flag that Does Not Exist—Yet? Imagining a New Symbol in Northern Ireland
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract There is a large amount of research on the use and meaning of existing flags in Northern Ireland, and more generally on symbols in violent identity conflicts. By contrast, this article explores the absence of a symbol that might be expected to exist—a unifying official flag in Northern Ireland.
David Mitchell
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Are the Rights of Nature the Only Way to Save Lough Neagh?
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Northern Ireland's Lough Neagh—the UK and Ireland's largest freshwater lake—recently hit the headlines owing to an ecological crisis caused by the level of pollutants entering its waters. With political attention drawn to the lough, an emerging idea amongst environmental activists—inspired by the global ‘rights of nature’ (RoN) movement—is ...
Laurence Cooley, Elliott Hill
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article explores transformation as a way of being in the rural Andes. It traces how transformation connects, and produces value within, multiple different spheres of life, specifically agricultural labour, personhood, identity, and space and movement.
Miranda Sheild Johansson
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Maria Iwanaga Maki (1849–1920) was 23 years old in 1873 when she returned home after a community exile and persecutions of more than 3000 people carried out by the Meiji government. Historians in the public record refer to Iwanaga as otoko‐masari (man‐nish) when she stood up to a representative of the Shogun, while in her public work she became known ...
Gwyn McClelland
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Initial Conditions, European Colonialism and Africa's Growth [PDF]
We investigate the role of initial conditions at colonial independence on economic growth in Africa in the post-independence period using Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA).
Chris Papageorgiou, Winford H. Masanjala
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The Socialocene: From Capitalocene to Transnational Waste Regimes
Antipode, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract In this article I will present a relational, and multiscalar, perspective on how state socialism interacted with and shaped the Capitalocene. I introduce a heuristic device, the term Socialocene, a transnational waste regime dominant through the Cold War‐era, that is, during what Will Steffen and colleagues call “the great acceleration”.
Zsuzsa Gille
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Civil War and Globalization: The Effect of Colonialism on Political Globalization
, 2012 The purpose of this paper to determine why civil war onset reduces political globalization in former British colonies. Through linear regression and logistic regression analyses, I test the affect of civil war onset and the presence of civil war on ...
Feltz, Luke O.
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On Technics and Technology as a Modification of the Death Drive
Constellations, EarlyView.
Lachlan Ross
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On the field: Race, gender and sports in colonial Ghana
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses Ghanaian women's sport practice from the late nineteenth century to the late 1950s, from games intertwined with displays of colonial authority to school competitions, physical education and tennis. The article argues that their performances played with changing categorisations of African girlhood and womanhood, especially
Claire Nicolas
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