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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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Stylistic punctuation of promotional texts
Lietuvių Kalba, 2013 The article deals with promotional texts as the genre of advertising allows disclosing the methods that its creators use in seeking to attract the addressee’s attention and persuade them to purchase an item under consideration.
Irena Smetonienė
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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Housing policies and market returns in China: Evidence from a novel policy index
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the relationship between housing policy interventions and market returns in China with a novel policy index. Using natural language processing techniques, we construct a sentence‐level policy index based on government policy documents from 2008 to 2024.
Siu Kei Wong, Yumou Wang
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FATHOM, 2013 This paper looks at how biblical scripture interwoven with folk belief functions as a form of fetishism in Far From the Madding Crowd (1874). Written in the wake of Edward Tylor’s Primitive Culture (1871), which popularized the concept of fetishism for a Victorian audience, the novel’s fetishized scriptural words are used in a variety of ways: to ...
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Aims Cannabis use disorder (CUD) affects ~50 million people globally. Neuroscientific theories suggest that a blunted neural response to non‐drug rewards is a hallmark of substance use disorders; however, this remains untested in CUD. The current study tested whether brain reward system responses to the anticipation and feedback
Martine Skumlien +15 more
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A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin
Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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ANALISIS MATERI ASTRONOMI PADA PEMBELAJARAN SAINS (PENYAJIAN SAINS MODERN DAN ALQURAN)
Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam (Journal of Islamic Education Studies), 2013 There are a bunch of topics about the between Science and Koran. However, it has not practiced yet in science learning process, even in Islamic school.
Esti Yuli Widayanti
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