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Radiometric Constraints on the Timing, Tempo, and Effects of Large Igneous Province Emplacement

open access: yesGeophysical Monograph Series, Page 27-82., 2021

Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact

An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Jennifer Kasbohm   +2 more
wiley  

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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
wiley   +1 more source

Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising Indo‐Caribbean Identities Beyond the Homeland/Hostland Binary: Indo‐Guadeloupeans’ ‘Archipelagic Brown Consciousness’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
wiley   +1 more source

NORC Data Enclave

open access: yes, 2010
Data services are now at a very exciting crossroad. The possibilities for innovative science represented by data merging, mashing, mining and mapping is rapidly expanding, as e-science web 2.0 worlds clamour for Open Data. Yet at the same time the power of these very techniques raises new concerns about data protection, as new techniques make the ...
Tim Mulcahy, Pascal Heus
openaire   +3 more sources

Rebranding the Nation: Migrant Fashion Production and the Contested Politics of ‘Made in Italy’

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Prato engage with the contested meaning of the Made in Italy production label. As Chinese‐run fashion firms have become central to Italy’s fast fashion sector, their growing visibility has raised public concerns about authenticity, national identity, and the perceived erosion of ...
Yintan Fan
wiley   +1 more source

Does Economic Performance in Home Countries Impact Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes? Evidence from Australia*

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
This paper provides causal evidence that persistent changes in macroeconomic conditions in immigrants' countries of origin shape their labour market behaviour in the host country. We develop and empirically test a reference‐dependent framework in the spirit of Kőszegi and Rabin (2006), in which immigrants evaluate their material well‐being in the host ...
Ruoshui Shan, Xiaodong Fan
wiley   +1 more source

Enclaves, legacies and prospects for sustained development in mineral-rich Africa

open access: yes
Why has economic development and prosperity proved so elusive in resource-rich sections of Africa? For over four decades, the International Finance Institutions (IFIs) have promoted export-led resource extraction as a catalyst for economic growth and ...
Patricia, Ackah-Baidoo
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Social Exchange and Reciprocal Integration Between Migrants and Locals at Work

open access: yesHuman Resource Management Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Workplaces are pivotal “contact zones” where migrants and locals negotiate access to jobs, resources, and recognition, yet HRM research has rarely examined how everyday encounters generate integrated relationships at work. This conceptual paper introduces reciprocal integration as a workplace‐anchored social exchange process: the emergent ...
Minna Paunova, Maribel Blasco
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a poverty index for African economies using the consensual approach : the case of Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe.

open access: yes, 2008
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2008.This thesis is articles-based submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Mtapuri, Oliver.
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