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Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer, Geoff S. Ridley, Nathan E. C. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-Cultural Delivery of e-Learning Programmes: Perspectives from Hong Kong

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2007
The growing popularity of e-learning may pose one of the greatest challenges currently facing traditional educational institutions. The questions often asked are how, rather than whether, to embrace this new form of instructional delivery and how to ...
Andrew Lap-sang Wong
doaj   +3 more sources

Cultures and Imperialisms

, 2014
2013 marked twenty years since the publication of Edward W. Said’s seminal volume *Culture and Imperialism*. The collection of essays in the special issue of the journal “Le Simplegadi” (XII, 12) engages with *Culture and Imperialism* not only to pay homage to the author of a book that has been central to the way we read literature and study culture ...
OBOE, ANNALISA, Guarducci M. P.
openaire   +4 more sources

‘Monkey Meat’ and Metaphor in Shohei Ooka’s Fires on the Plain

Exchanges, 2020
In Fires on the Plain (1952) novelist Shohei Ooka critiques Japanese imperialism by depicting the collapse of the Japanese army in the Philippines during the final months of World War II.
Hugh Davis
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Platform as a Factor of Digital Imperialism in the Russian Information Space

RUDN Journal of Political Science
The digital imperialism is a modern dimension of classical economic imperialism and uses tools such as digital platforms to disseminate information and accumulate and call financial capital from countries of the periphery to the center.
Denis S. Martyanov, Galina V. Lukyanova
doaj   +1 more source

(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca, Vitor Rocio, Antonio Cunha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linguistic imperialism and colonial discourse in Elias Canetti's The Voices of Marrakesh: A post-colonial analysis

Moroccan Journal of Quantitative and Qualitative Research
In the context of colonialism, Morocco like all the countries of the Orient has been portrayed through the lenses of many orientalist travelogues. These literary texts are for Said’s (1978) colonial discourses that objectified the ‘Other’, perpetuating ...
MOHAMED TAHAR ES SIDDIKI, Yamina EL KIRAT EL ALLAME   +1 more
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Critical Multilingual Language Awareness, Antiracism, and Raciolinguicized Subjectivities in Teacher Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Race and language collaborate in structuring educational inequities, creating urgency for teacher education to equip all teachers to equitably serve racialized multilinguals as antiracist language educators. Emphasizing the inseparability of racial and linguistic justice, this article examines teacher candidates' (TCs') learning journeys ...
Monica Shank Lauwo
wiley   +1 more source

Land and Water Pedagogy in TESOL: Centering Indigenous Knowledges

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of English Language Teaching (ELT), TESOL, and Indigenous knowledges is an important yet often neglected area of inquiry. This paper explores the importance of including Indigenous knowledges – specifically land and water pedagogies – in ELT, TESOL, and broader language education practices. Through duoethnographic inquiry, we –
Paul J. Meighan, Madoka Hammine
wiley   +1 more source