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Agrarian Modernity—Coda

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract Around the globe, peasants, migrants, companies, and governments, even the land itself, are doing things that agrarian studies scholars are not anticipating. The changes in the countryside seem increasingly dramatic, challenging Marxist vocabulary and analysis.
Christian Lund, Hilary Faxon
wiley   +1 more source

Mediating atmospheric bordering: Migratory journeys in hostile environments

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract The main claim of the paper is that displaced people mediate affective processes that aim to shape their movements, and that such mediations are critical for understanding: the importance of sensory relations and spaces of movement that might otherwise remain obscure; the ways to challenge affective politics; and the relationship among ...
SUZAN ILCAN
wiley   +1 more source

Should We Use Behavioural Predictions in Organ Allocation?

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Medical predictions, for example, concerning a patient's likelihood of survival, can be used to efficiently allocate scarce resources. Predictions of patient behaviour can also be used—for example, patients on the liver transplant waiting list could receive lower priority based on a high likelihood of non‐adherence to their immunosuppressant ...
Max Drezga‐Kleiminger   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

There’s No Need to Rethink Desert: A Reply to Pummer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Benjamin L. Curtis   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Look past the cooperative eye hypothesis: reconsidering the evolution of human eye appearance

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The external appearance of the human eye has been prominently linked to the evolution of complex sociocognitive functions in our species. The cooperative eye hypothesis (CEH) proposes that human eyeballs, with their weakly expressed conjunctival and scleral pigmentation, are uniquely conspicuous and evolved under selective pressures to behave ...
Juan Olvido Perea‐García   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The intricate relationship between stress and animal welfare: from historical perspective to new avenues

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We discuss the intricate relationship between the evolution of the concept of stress and the development of the concept of animal welfare. After a brief review of the main concepts of animal welfare, we analyse important steps in the evolution of the concept of stress, starting from the mechanistic approach of the General Adaptation Syndrome ...
Feifan Wu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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