Ecologization Is Not a Metaphor: Museums in the Web of Life
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article documents and critiques emerging accounts of museum “ecologization”. Drawing on political ecology, materialist theory, and contemporary museum practice, we challenge dominant frameworks of ecological modernization and advocate for a more critical understanding of museums in the web of life.
Colin Sterling +2 more
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Cadastral plots dataset: Availability of passive climatization strategies in Barcelona's residential buildings. [PDF]
Data BriefMoccia A, Alonso-Montolío C, Coch H.
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Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.Summary Background and Objectives The Hospital de la Magdalena, a care home for female prostitutes with venereal diseases, operated in Barcelona from 1923 to 1959. The purpose of this investigation is to highlight how this hospital was used to educate female prostitutes morally in addition to providing medical treatment.
Florian Grafl, Florian Steger
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Seismic assessment of unreinforced masonry façades from images using macroelement-based modeling. [PDF]
Commun EngAriss M +4 more
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Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics
Educational Theory, EarlyView.Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
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Biomimetic Shading Systems: Integrating Motorised and Moisture-Responsive Actuation for Adaptive Façades. [PDF]
Biomimetics (Basel)Imani N +5 more
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Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
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Rope-Riding Mobile Anchor for Robots Operating on Convex Facades. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Kim C, Lee K, Yang J, Seo T.
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Caring organizational cultures and the future of work
European Management Review, EarlyView.Abstract There is substantial evidence that workplaces of the future will be dominated by an increase in advanced technology. This trend might lead to the objectification and dehumanization of employees and other stakeholders who interact with organizations as impersonal operations and procedures become normative and employees are subordinated to ...
Alan M. Saks, Jamie A. Gruman
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