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The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Contemporary accounts and future directions for decolonising global health: A scoping review. [PDF]

Public Health Pract (Oxf)
Stewart DE, Amsalu T, Fairfoot E, Keen D, Keenan J, Butcher F, Miles K, Razavi A.   +7 more
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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An Ig Nobel for Global Health: The case for laughing at ourselves. [PDF]

PLOS Glob Public Health
Sharma D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Governing the Global Square: Pueblos, Platforms, and the Politics of Place

Constellations, EarlyView.
Jennifer Forestal
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Behind the Canvas Curtain: Gender, Visibility, and Spectacle in the 1956 Semenyih Incident in the Malayan Emergency

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin

Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
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“What Roles for Women?”: Gendering the New International Economic Order at the UN Regional Economic Commission for Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1974 declaration of the New International Economic Order (NIEO), which came just ahead of the UN's International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, attempted a major renegotiation of global inequality without reference to gender. Through the rest of the 1970s, women at the African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW) in Addis Ababa ...
Elizabeth Banks
wiley   +1 more source