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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Numerical solution of a conspicuous consumption model with constant control delay.

Automatica (Oxf), 2011
Huschto T, Feichtinger G, Hartl RF, Kort PM, Sager S, Seidl A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Location as Conspicuous Consumption

, 2019
This chapter draws on the results of a long-term ethnographic research about the uses of social media carried out in Mardin, a medium-sized town in south-east Turkey, inhabited by a population of Arabs and Kurds. It argues that teenagers and young adults publicly display their locations on Facebook to increase popularity and fame among friends ...
openaire   +1 more source

Green and Generous: Virtue Signaling Environmentalism and Community-Mindedness from an Evolutionary Perspective. [PDF]

Evol Psychol
Fisher ML, Komatsu H, Kubota H, Tanaka N, Griffin M, Geher G.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditions that enabled the teenager to become a prominent voice for feminism and sexual reform on the eve of Spain's Second Republic (1931–1939).
Micaela Pattison
wiley   +1 more source

‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Vulgar things: Moral dilemmas of luxury consumption in an unequal society. [PDF]

J Consum Cult
Huigen B.
europepmc   +1 more source

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Embodied Impact of Facial Coverings: Triggering Self-Expression Needs to Drive Conspicuous Preferences. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Li J, Liang X.
europepmc   +1 more source