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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King +2 more
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Surveillance & Society, 2017 Japan’s ultra-right wing government, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe since 2012, has been enforcing a number of controversial laws, such as the Secrecy Act and Security Act, which have enhanced surveillance and militarism.
Midori Ogasawara
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
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Arts, 2018 In the second half of the 19th century, a wave of modernization, industrialization and urbanization swept the Nordic countries, catapulting what had until then been lagging and primarily rural countries into modernity.
Atli Magnus Seelow
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Clashing Turkish nationalisms through gezi movement: Reflections on everyday nationalism
, 2018 Gezi protests which began as a reaction against the AKP’s authoritarian intervention into urban space in May 2013, in a short time, turned into a country-wide social movement that brought the various components of the society that have different ...
Ravanoğlu Yılmaz, Sezen
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Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the Chinese kimchi industry, manufacturers employ product names, photographs, and logistical strategies to promote their kimchi's “Koreanness.” So, what makes their kimchi “Korean,” and how does its Koreanness formulate kimchi's commodity value?
Heangjin Park
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Everyday Nation-Building In The Post-Soviet Space. Methodological Reflections.
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2016 This article presents a methodological approach to the study of nation-building in everyday life in the post-Soviet region. Although bottom-up and informal mechanisms of creating identity have been acknowledged in the literature and methodology of ...
Oleksandra Seliverstova, Emilia Pawlusz
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The gift of democracy: a Tibetan experience with democracy in exile
European Bulletin of Himalayan ResearchInstituting democracy was one of the foremost engagements of the Dalai Lama in exile. The intricate connection drawn between democracy, the nationalist goal and the Dalai Lama gives a unique flavour to Tibetan democracy. Considered as a ‘gift’, democracy
Tenzing Palmo
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Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, 2016 Sofía Casanova was journalist in ABC during the First World War and Bolshevik Revolution. She wrote about geopolitical and war events, as well as she described her agency as burgess woman and Red Cross nurse, and everyday life at Poland and Russia. It is
Pedro Ochoa Crespo
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The Impact of Anthem Protests, MAGA, and BLM on NFL Attendance
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick first took a knee during the San Francisco 49ers' final preseason game. The protest quickly became league‐wide, and inspired similar actions by players in the WNBA, NWSL, NBA, college football and other professional sports.
Oskar Harmon, Jungbin Hwang
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