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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Debates abound regarding how to use land for nature recovery and environmental governance. Such decisions require an understanding of benefits and trade‐offs, and increasingly rely on vast quantities of data, delivered through digital technologies.
Lucy Jenner +3 more
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Cochabamba, 1550-1900: colonialism and agrarian transformation in Bolivia
, 1998 First ed. has title: Colonialism and agrarian transformation in Bolivia.Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required ...
Larson, Brooke. Colonialism and agrarian transformation in Bolivia. +1 more
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Settler Colonialism on the Southern Plains: Squatters and the Construction of a Settler State in Indian Territory [PDF]
, 2018 Settler colonialism, a process by which settlers take control of and transform both the land and people who live in a region into the settlers’ image, was a defining force in Oklahoma’s formation and remains pervasive in Oklahoman memory.
Truden, John
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The educational legacy of colonialism in south-western Nigeria
, 2021 The educational legacy of colonialism in Nigeria is a contested and controversial subject. What do those who lived through the colonial period remember? And what do they think is both positive and negative about education in that period?
Lamikanra, Folasade Helen
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract In 2023, the American Ornithological Society announced it will phase out the English eponymous (honorific) names of 152 bird species in the United States and Canada, some of which are named after historical figures with racist, genocidal, or otherwise violent histories that serve as reminders of ornithology's exclusive origins.
Kirsten Vinyeta +3 more
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
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The post-liberation leadership and governance failures of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) of Zimbabwe (2017 to 2020) [PDF]
, 2021 Magister Commercii - MComThe Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 marked the first step towards the partition of Africa. After this date, Europeans began to colonize the continent.
Solani, Asisipho
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Colonialism and race in Arabic translation: the case of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesDespite the Arab world’s long experience with colonialism and racial and ethnic othering, there is a dearth of research on issues of colonialism and othering in Arabic literary translation.
Raeefa Mshaweh, Sanaa Benmessaoud
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Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in Brazil
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Urban gardening offers an innovative conservation strategy by integrating native ornamental species into urban landscapes. We evaluated the ornamental potential of the Brazilian flora by comparing the representation of species from forests versus open biomes (focusing on campo rupestre grasslands) and introduced and validated the Index of Ornamental ...
Flávia Santos Faria +2 more
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, 2020 Historical archaeology is an emerging field of research in Vanuatu, a small island nation in the southwest Pacific, which emphasizes the ways that Melanesian people experienced and adapted to colonialism. People in the New Hebrides (as Vanuatu was called
Flexner, James +3 more
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