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Reconcentration Around Empires

Cadmus
The article offers a brief reflection on how the contemporary geopolitical landscape is favouring the recovery of the classical idea of imperial hegemony around a relatively small number of axes.
Carlos Blanco
doaj  

Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE. [PDF]

Sci Data
Bennett JS, Mutch E, Tollefson A, Chalstrey E, Benam M, Cioni E, Reddish J, Zsambok J, Levine J, Cook CJ, Francois P, Hoyer D, Turchin P.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

Almost 80 Years After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Are World Governments and Healthcare Systems Ready for a Nuclear War? [PDF]

J Prev Med Public Health
Ramírez C, Durón RM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reframing Colonial Korea's Forests Through Protection Forests: The Forests of Joseon (1938)

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This study examines The Forests of Joseon (1938), a forestry survey compiled by Tokumitsu Nobuyuki under Japanese colonial rule, as a key site of epistemic negotiation between imperial forestry science and Korean indigenous knowledge. Focusing on bíbo forests—geomantic forests believed to regulate energy flow between mountains and villages—the paper ...
Soyeong Park, Jeong‐Hann Pae
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking the history of microbiology: new actors, geographies, places of knowledge, and ecologies. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
da Silva MAD, Gallay-Keller M.
europepmc   +1 more source

A new imperialist competitive algorithm with spiral rising mechanism for solving path optimization problems. [PDF]

PeerJ Comput Sci, 2022
Li X, Chen J, Sun L, Li J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Understanding Plant Parasitism: Hydnora Africana and European Scientific Practice in the Early Nineteenth Century**

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article will analyze the uncertainties around collecting and classifying Hydnora africana in the first half of the nineteenth century. Emerging from the distinctive dryland ecologies of South Africa, Hydnora was interpreted as strange and cryptic by Europeans primarily because it is a root parasite—a complex floral trait that was little understood.
Katherine Arnold
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a historical sociology of infectious disease governance: an interview with Alexandre White. [PDF]

Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
White A, Sá GSR.
europepmc   +1 more source