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Micropolitics of Secrecy: Traders' Enactments of Expertise After the Failed Military Coup in Turkey

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conducting ethnographic research in financial institutions is challenging because secrecy is pivotal for traders to maintain their expert image. It became more difficult in Turkey after the failed coup in 2016 as Turkish President Erdoğan increasingly weaponized conspiracies that are historically and politically rooted in Turkish society to ...
Deniz Coral‐Irwin
wiley   +1 more source

What Makes Autocracies’ Soft Power Strategies Special? Evidence from Russia and China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper problematizes the national soft power strategies of authoritarian states arguing that many of their features stem from those countries’ political regime.
Patalakh, Artem
core   +2 more sources

Laser Micromachining for Bioelectronics: Past, Present, and Future

open access: yesSmall Methods, EarlyView.
Lasers offer a straightforward, flexible, and versatile route to the manufacture of bioelectronic devices, with distinct advantages over alternatives such as photolithography and printing. The key aspects of a laser when considering their use in bioelectronics fabrication are discussed in this review, and the development of laser micromachining within ...
J. G. Troughton, C. M. Proctor
wiley   +1 more source

Malta’s cultural diplomacy

open access: yes, 2022
Cultural diplomacy is the promotion of one’s culture while understanding that of others. It is more focused on building relations between communities of different countries while embracing the notion that every citizen can be the actor or recipient of cultural diplomacy.
openaire   +1 more source

Ellipses of Cultural Diplomacy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of World Literature, 2019
Abstract This article studies China-India cultural diplomacy in the context of the socialist Chinese literary sphere. Decentering “dialogue” as an easy metaphor for transnationalism, I propose ellipses – the mark of silences, tensions, the unsaid – as a conceptual frame that makes visible those literary ties that frustrate the logic and aims of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Public diplomacy: meeting new challenges. Report of Wilton Park Conference 902 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
What is the role of public diplomacy in the delivery of international objectives? Is there scope for more intergovernmental collaboration? Do governments understand their audiences and how best to reach them? In what ways can practitioners take advantage
Webb, Alban
core  

“Even the Culture Day is in English”: Teachers' Critical EMI Awareness in Hong Kong

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract With the massive expansion of English medium instruction (EMI) in universities, EMI is now seeking a standing in schools of non‐Anglophone countries. While the history of K–12 EMI in postcolonial settings can bear important lessons for other contexts, school‐level EMI research focuses on instructional challenges, and critical insights about ...
Seyyed‐Abdolhamid Mirhosseini
wiley   +1 more source

La diplomacia cultural de México y Turquía como instrumento de poder regional

open access: yesCahiers des Amériques Latines, 2015
We analyze to what extend and under which circumstances cultural diplomacy, as a tool for exerting power, has allowed Mexico and Turkey to endorse a leadership role in their respective regions.
María del Rocío Rodríguez Echeverría   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic Harbingers of Betrayal: A Case Study on an Online Strategy Game [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Interpersonal relations are fickle, with close friendships often dissolving into enmity. In this work, we explore linguistic cues that presage such transitions by studying dyadic interactions in an online strategy game where players form alliances and ...
Boyd-Graber, Jordan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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