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Narratives from the Pineapple Republic. On national self-understanding and sustainability paradoxes in Costa Rica as detected in Adrián Jiménez Brais’ play PIÑA

open access: yesRevista Académica Arjé
The following article analyzes the play PIÑA (2023) by Costa Rican author Adrían Jiménez Brais. Based on an understanding of literature as a repository of social knowledge, where urgent narratives, discourses and issues are made visible and negotiated ...
Susanne Schlünder
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American terror:from Oklahoma City to 9/11 and after [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Throughout American history, both terrorism and extremism have been constructed, evoked or ignored strategically by the state, media and public at different points, in order to disown and demonize political movements whenever their ideologies and ...
Winter, Aaron
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Funciones del presente histórico en dos textos narrativos tradicionales costarricenses

open access: yesRevista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2020
The purpose of this article is to determine the funtions of the historical present in two traditional Costa Rican narrative texts. The analisis shows that there is not a single function of the historical present in these texts, but several, such as that
Adolfo Constenla Umaña
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Employing culturally responsive pedagogy to foster literacy learning in schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
 In recent years it has become increasingly obvious that, to enable students in schools from an increasingly diverse range of cultural backgrounds to acquire literacy to a standard that will support them to achieve academically, it is important to adopt ...
Adams D.   +36 more
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Borders Manifest: Racializing the Nicaraguan Refugee in Costa Rica [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
I look to border responses of North American countries as refugees and migrants move across them to argue that border responses racialize the foreign other in receiving countries.
Twidwell, Theodore B.
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Questioning the Myth of Cultural Bridges: Translation as a Funnel and the Example of Costa Rican Poetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
La traducción se ha presentado como puente cultural, como medio neutral y democratizador al servicio de la comunicación y el intercambio intercultural.
Franco Aixelá, Javier   +1 more
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Varied motivations for secondary forest reclearing among landholders make forest persistence challenging

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Remote sensing studies show that ephemeral forest regeneration is widespread in the tropics, limiting the climate and biodiversity benefits from net increases in forest cover. Socioeconomic, biophysical and landscape variables can help explain the spatial distribution of reforestation reversals.
Francis H. Joyce
wiley   +1 more source

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