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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
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Material Gworls: Consumption and Cosmopolitanism From Jamaica to Japan

Anthropology of Work Review
ABSTRACT This article is part of the special issue “Racialization and the gig economy”, Anthropology of Work Review 47(1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. Amidst the economic precarity exacerbated by neoliberal policies of the 20th century, Jamaican women look beyond the island's shores to find financial ...
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“Foreigners in Town”: Leisure, Consumption, and Cosmopolitanism in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Tillsonburg, Ontario1 [PDF]

Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 2013
At the turn of the twentieth century, the small town of Tillsonburg, Ontario contained a population that was over eighty-six percent Anglo-Celtic in origin. Increasingly, however, local leisure activities began to incorporate “ethnic” food, dress, and mannerisms so that citizens could momentarily become “foreigners” and “consume” knowledge of other ...
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Beyond Bia Hơi? Distinction and Aspiration in Hanoi's Craft Beer Scene

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article we examine the emergence of Hanoi's craft beer scene as a window into shifting class identities, aspirational consumption, and local–global negotiations in contemporary Vietnam. We bring together Bourdieu's theorisation of taste as symbolic capital with Appadurai's concept of aspiration to analyse how consumption practices ...
Sarah Turner, Chính Trọng Nguyễn
wiley   +1 more source

An Institutionalized Latent Concept, Cosmopolitan Consumer Orientation, as a Predictor of Sustainable Apparel Consumption

, 2017
This latent concept is scarcely used in the study of the apparel and textiles context. It has been argued that a cosmopolitan approach incorporates a more ethical, citizenship perspective, thus more responsible contribution in a global community that is not limited by country borders.
Maria S. Gil, Jin Su
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Predicting young Chinese consumers' intentions to purchase Western brands: Structural model analysis. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Long F, Bhuiyan MA, Aziz NA, Rahman MK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Triangulating Evidence on Serum Uric Acid and Cancer Risk: Consistent Inverse Associations With Lung Cancer

Cancer Science, EarlyView.
Using both conventional observational and Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses in the same Japanese community‐dwelling population, the evidence consistently supported an inverse association between the serum uric acid level and lung cancer risk. ABSTRACT We examined the association between serum uric acid (UA) levels and cancer incidence through a ...
Takashi Matsunaga, Kenji Wakai, Takashi Tamura, Mako Nagayoshi, Rieko Okada, Itsuki Kageyama, Megumi Hara, Takuma Furukawa, Hiroaki Ikezaki, Yuji Matsumoto, Takeshi Nishiyama, Hiroko Nakagawa‐Senda, Chihaya Koriyama, Shiroh Tanoue, Naoyuki Takashima, Etsuko Ozaki, Katsuyuki Miura, Aya Kadota, Takeshi Watanabe, Masashi Ishizu, Kiyonori Kuriki, Masahiro Nakatochi, Yukihide Momozawa, Issei Imoto, Isao Oze, Keitaro Matsuo, the J‐MICC Study Group   +26 more
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Effects of Consumer Dispositional Attitude on Purchase Intention in an Emerging Market. [PDF]

F1000Res, 2023
Shanbhogue AV, Ranjith VK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Trauma, Testimony and Lower Secondary Holocaust Education in Rywka Lipszyc's and Otto Wolf's Diaries

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Holocaust‐related trauma is represented in two diaries written by Jewish adolescents during the Second World War: Rywka Lipszyc's diary and Otto Wolf's diary. The article combines a thematically guided close reading of the diaries with a didactic discussion of their possible use in lower secondary literary education ...
Milan Mašát
wiley   +1 more source

Tier 2 adult weight management services in the UK: A case study evaluation of local authority provision of targeted services for higher‐risk groups in England

Clinical Obesity, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 2025.
Summary In 2021, the UK Government announced additional funding in England for Adult Weight Management Services (AWMS); it was specified that the extra funding must be used to commission or extend existing tier 2 services. The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities encouraged commissioners to prioritise services for higher‐risk groups such as ...
Lorraine McSweeney, Charlotte Rothwell, Ashley Adamson, Simon Barrett, Claire Mathews, Scott Lloyd, Mackenzie Fong   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source