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Passeurs: Narratives of Border Crossing in the Western Alps [PDF]
, 2019 This article focuses on representations of passeurs: migrant smugglers across the French-Italian and Swiss-Italian borders. I analyze a heterogeneous corpus of novels, films, and essays published between 1990-2017 that refer to different waves of ...
Di Blasio, Federica
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An Emotional Economy of Mundane Objects [PDF]
, 2014 Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article illuminates the affective potentialities of objects. We examine the circulation of Kurdish music cassettes in Turkey during the restrictive and strife-laden period of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. We find
Ger, G., Kuruoglu, A.
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Sufi Warriorism in Muslim Southeast Asia
Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 502-516, December 2024.Abstract Sufism (tasawwuf) has been characterized in the extant literature as a pacifist strand in Islam that has shaped the landscapes of Muslim Southeast Asia (also known as the Malay World) since the last five hundred years. This article challenges such historiographical interpretation by examining the multifarious circumstances that motivated Sufis
Khairudin Aljunied
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Numbers in Context: Cardinals, Ordinals, and Nominals in American English
Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 6, June 2024.Abstract There are three main types of number used in modern, industrialized societies. Cardinals count sets (e.g., people, objects) and quantify elements of conventional scales (e.g., money, distance), ordinals index positions in ordered sequences (e.g., years, pages), and nominals serve as unique identifiers (e.g., telephone numbers, player numbers).
Greg Woodin, Bodo Winter
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 198-224, March 2024.Abstract This study traces how Black lesbians in the San Francisco Bay Area made a place for themselves in the world at the end of the twentieth century, after the decline of the Black Power Movement and before the rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
Alesia Montgomery
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پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2017 The present paper seeks to explore the poetical premises and stylistic features of the works of Ruwange and Kifri, as two major literary schools. Both schools played a highly significant role in the literary development of Kurdish poetry from 1970 to ...
Seyed Bakhtiar Sadjadi
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The Politics of Exhaustion: Immigration Control in the British-French Border Zone [PDF]
, 2020 Within a climate of growing anti-immigration and populist forces gaining traction across Europe, and in response to the increased number of prospective asylum seekers arriving in Europe, recent years have seen the continued hardening of borders and a ...
Welander, M., Welander, M.
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Iranian classical dance as a subject for empirical research: An elusive genre
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1533, Issue 1, Page 51-72, March 2024.Iranian classical dance is a rich resource for academic research, both for humanities scholarship and for the empirical disciplines (e.g., empirical aesthetics, experimental psychology, affective neuroscience). To support such research, this paper (a) describes the aesthetics, characteristics, and history of Iranian classical dance; (b) outlines issues
Julia F. Christensen +2 more
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Places between vanishing and appearing compass and sense in the Iraqi Kurdish poetry translator
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019 Longer Kurdish poetry translator important tributary of the tributaries of the Iraqi culture contemporary , and a wealth of knowledge rich experiences of an important segment of the Iraqi people , nicked culturally with the languages and cultures of the ...
صلاح كاظم هادي
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A Comparative Study of Social Thoughts in the Poems of Mullah Ma'rouf Kokei and Ma'rouf al-Rosafi
پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردیLiterature has perpetually accompanied humanity through the tumultuous tides of history, inherently serving as a vessel for grappling with societal issues.
Qader Qaderi
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