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Methodology to identify ecologically matching areas and its applications in conservation planning

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Identifying ecologically matching areas is both challenging and critical for understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity and advancing conservation planning. However, existing approaches often lack spatial flexibility, overlook shape and size constraints, or rely on limited environmental parameters, reducing their effectiveness in real ...
Pietro Milanesi, Alessandro Chiarucci, Alessandra Maria Bissattini, Vincenzo Buono, Gianluca Piovesan, Carlo Rondinini, Umberto Valdrè, Marco Musiani   +7 more
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
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Bridging the Gap Between L1 and L2: Enhanced Emotional Vocabulary Through Elaborative Processing in Spanish‐Speaking English Language Learners

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign languages are often learnt in formal and disembodied environments which may limit the emotional resonance of their vocabulary and their pragmatic usage in real‐life communication. In a context of English as a foreign language (EFL), this study examines whether elaborative processing as a teaching strategy leads to changes in the ...
María Jesús Sánchez, Elisa Pérez‐García, María Belén López Arroyo, Beatriz Bermúdez‐Margaretto   +3 more
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Read Aloud Scaffolding for Language and Content Learning With Emergent Bilinguals: Quadrants of Engagement

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the types of scaffolding strategies employed by elementary teachers during read aloud sessions, with a specific focus on emergent bilingual students. Through a multi‐site explanatory case study involving 14 elementary teachers across four districts, we analyzed the frequency and quality of scaffold use, categorizing ...
Qingli Lei, Trish Morita‐Mullaney, Jennifer Renn   +2 more
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Por la paz entre Ecuador y Perú

Kipus: Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales
Archivo histórico de Kipus: Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales, 1997. Esta información es parte del repositorio institucional UASB-Digital, de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Sede Ecuador.
Kipus Revista Andina de Letras y Estudios Culturales
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Estudios culturales y sociocrítica

, 2020
Estudios culturales y sociocrítica aparecen en un momento del siglo XX en el que a la inquietud por el carácter complejo del discurso literario se une la preocupación por las metodologías implicadas en su análisis y el incuestionable carácter social de éstas. Ambas corrientes emergen sobre una base sociológica y marxista claras y pronto hacen suyo como
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Estudios (inter)culturales en clave de-colonial

Tabula Rasa, 2010
Los «estudios culturales» en América Latina forman parte de una política de nombrar inscrita en legados y cartografiados frecuentemente como totalidad, ocultando o dejando pasar por alto las diferencias a su interior. Este articula examina desde dónde nacen los estudios culturales en América Latina en general y en la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar en
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Giving a Voice to Survivors: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Women's Narratives of Sexual Violence

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sexual violence constitutes a pervasive global issue, disproportionately affecting women and girls and resulting in serious health consequences, making it essential to give a voice to survivors. This study employed the transitivity model to analyse the discourse of women survivors, focusing on how they recount and interpret their experiences ...
Marta Badenes Sastre, Leanne Victoria Bartley, Francisca Expósito   +2 more
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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