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Sasakian metrics with an additional contact structure [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2012
The question of whether a Sasakian metric can admit an additional compatible (K-)contact structure is addressed. In the complete case if the second structure is also assumed Sasakian, works of Tachibana-Yu and Tanno show that the manifold must be 3-Sasakian or an odd dimensional sphere with constant curvature.
arxiv  

The Growing Importance of Diaspora Politics

open access: yes, 2016
few decades ago, there was little interest in diasporas and their politics beyond a few “classic” cases such as the Jewish or Armenian diasporas. Today, diaspora politics—forms of political engagement that link constituencies in one country with a real ...
F. Adamson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

The Beginnings of Polish Jewry: Reevaluating the Evidence for the Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries

open access: yesZeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2021
Alexander Kulik, Judith Kalik
doaj   +1 more source

Qui fait la diaspora? Le problème de l’identité dans les recherches sur les diasporas

open access: yesRomanian Journal of Communications and Public Relations, 2023
This article opens up a debate on the analytical relationship between “identity” and “the diaspora”. We discuss whether approaching the diaspora from an identitarian perspective constitutively generates an essentialist view of the diaspora or ...
Camelia Beciu
doaj  

Pakistan's Internet Voting Experiment [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2019
Pakistan recently conducted small-scale trials of a remote Internet voting system for overseas citizens. In this contribution, we report on the experience: we document the unique combination of sociopolitical, legal, and institutional factors motivating this exercise.
arxiv  

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

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