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, 2020 While yoga is sometimes popularly perceived as apolitical, scholarly trends of the twenty-first century reveal the centrality of power, hierarchy and recognition to the workings of the practice. The remodulations of yoga that took place in India under colonial modernity expose how the practice was both shaped by imperial norms and capable of generating
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Recapturing the spirit of 1971: towards a new regional political settlement in the Pacific [PDF]
This paper proposes ways to keep Australia and New Zealand within the Pacific Islands Forum and at the same time meet the concerns of the Pacific island states about ‘charting their own course’.
Greg Fry
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Indigenous Peoples in northern Alberta, including Dené and Cree of the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations (ACFN and MCFN), have been using Indigenous laws and stewardship principles to care for their homelands for thousands of years. Since ACFN and MCFN signed Treaty 8 with Canada in 1899, Alberta's land management policies and
Lori Cyprien +6 more
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On Decolonising Revolution through a Lens of Afterlives
Práticas da HistóriaWhat do calls for decolonisation in postcolonial times offer to analysis of revolution? This article brings contemporary calls for decolonisation into conversation with scholarship on revolution.
Alice Wilson
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Using childhood landscape memories to uncover the dynamics of Anthropocene in African Urbanscapes
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract This perspective provides a reflective account of our personal experiences as African professors and lecturers in diverse fields of environmental sciences encountering the urban Anthropocene. Here, we explain the nature of the unprecedented, potent and hidden changes in our lived environments.
Aliyu Salisu Barau +5 more
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Book review: Defending the realm? The politics of Britain’s small wars since 1945 [PDF]
, 2013 Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging ‘small wars’. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the world’s most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare.
Holt, Andrew
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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation data from Montserrat and the Cayman Islands to assess who collected these specimens, how they are used, and by whom.
Quentin Groom +16 more
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Transformation in Higher EducationThe turn to democracy in South Africa brought hope for a higher education sector that would play a key role in tackling racial inequalities and injustices.
Savo Heleta, Isha Dilraj
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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Marching towards decolonisation: notes and reflections [PDF]
, 2019 No description ...
Kassem, Ali M
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