Parallels and discrepancies between non-native species introductions and human migration. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Biological invasions and human migrations have increased globally due to socio‐economic drivers and environmental factors that have enhanced cultural, economic, and geographic connectivity. Both processes involve the movement, establishment, and spread of species, yet unfold within fundamentally different philosophical, social and biological ...
Ahmed DA+38 more
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In search of the authentic nation: landscape and national identity in Canada and Switzerland [PDF]
While the study of nationalism and national identity has flourished in the last decade, little attention has been devoted to the conditions under which natural environments acquire significance in definitions of nationhood.
Alter Peter+97 more
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Modern formation, ethnic reformation: the social sources of the American nation [PDF]
The question, 'When is the nation?', ranks second in importance only to the related query, 'Why is the nation?' in the contemporary social science and humanities literature on nationalism.
Kaufmann, Eric P.
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Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork [PDF]
This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and well-intentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio ...
Jaspers, Jürgen, Meeuwis, Michael
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Historical and Ethnographical Publications in the Vernaculars of Colonial Zambia: Missionary Contribution to the 'Creation of Tribalism' [PDF]
This essay examines the chronology and attributes of literate ethno-history in Northern Rhodesia. While the earliest published authors were invariably members of missionary societies whose evangelical policies were predisposed towards the ...
Macola, Giacomo
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
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
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Ethno-Stem Project-Based Learning: Its Impact to Critical and Creative Thinking Skills
Guiding students how to think critically and creatively is a crucial part of the educational process in order to meet the required skills to face the 21 st century.
W. Sumarni, S. Kadarwati
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SAND, PLANTATION URBANISM AND THE EXTENDED POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF INFRASTRUCTURES IN INDIA
Abstract Recently, large parts of India and the global South have witnessed widespread sand extraction from rural sites for urban infrastructure projects, causing extensive environmental damage. Critical scholarship has theorized these sites as new extractive frontiers that facilitate the needs of green energy transitions and planetary urbanization. In
Siddharth Menon
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Abstract Indigenous Peoples are gaining renewed attention within both policy and academia, as examples of “resilience” and of non‐humanist, non‐modern ways of relating to nature, which might, it is hoped, provide tools to withstand the socio‐ecological crises associated with “the Anthropocene”.
Penelope Anthias, Kiran Asher
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The article analyzes the impact of the tourism boom on catch-up development in the Northern Caucasus and examines how “modernization from above,” which emphasizes the state’s role in improving underdeveloped regions, and “modernization from below,” which
I. V. Starodubrovskaya, D. Sitkievich
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