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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Material Anchors in Language Learning. [PDF]

Top Cogn Sci
Snoek C.
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WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
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Projected speaker numbers and dormancy risks of Canada's Indigenous languages. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Boissonneault M, Tallman A, Gast V, Greenhill SJ.   +3 more
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VISIBILITY IN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN SPACE: The (De)politicizing City and Grassroots Mobilizations in Russia

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
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A curated global dataset of social contact between diverse language communities. [PDF]

Sci Data
Kashima E, Di Garbo F, Raatikainen O, Forkel R, Avelino R, Beck S, Berge A, Blanco Pena A, Bowden R, Brid N, Brincat JM, Carpio MB, Cobbinah A, Cúneo P, Deginet Wotango Doyiso, Fehn AM, Gholami S, Ghosh A, Gibson H, Hall E, Hannß K, Haynie H, Jacka JJ, Jenny M, Kowalik R, Kulkarni-Joshi S, Mous M, Mendoza M, Messineo C, Moro FR, Nater H, Ocasio M, Olsson B, Ospina Bozzi AM, Paredes A, Phiri A, Quint N, Sandman E, Schokkin D, Singer R, Smith-Dennis E, Souag L, Sulistyono Y, Treis Y, Urban M, Vaughan J, Ziegelmeyer G, Zikmundová V, Napoleão de Souza R, Sinnemäki K.   +49 more
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MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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A multimodal dataset for automating language vitality and endangerment assessment in south-south Nigeria. [PDF]

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Ekpenyong M, Udoh I, Urua EA, Udoh N, Obikudo E, Anyanwu O, Shehu A, Sylvanus E, Bassey R, Saturday U, Fakiyesi T, Kekai CP, Udoh E, Ansa S, Ifesieh E, Ikhimwin G, Udoeyo U, Alexander E, Okon E, Ekpe M, Okon Nyong B, Darah M, Diffre-Odiete A, Ejobee L, Aigbedo W, Imoudu F, Manda C, Kiine ME, Ugwu D, Akpan A.   +29 more
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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