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Grabbing the wind? Assetisation of land and enclosure of wind rights in the Outer Hebrides
Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract Land has become an increasingly contested resource for the deployment of renewable energy facilities. This paper introduces the notion of ‘wind grabbing’ to explore the intricate interplay between landownership and entitlements to utilise wind energy.
David Rudolph, Laura Tolnov Clausen
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Destruction or Persistence? New Perspectives on the Relationship between Feudalism and Capitalism [PDF]
, 2014 This essay is a short but impacting observation of the economy of the Middle Ages in light of recent economic historians’ discoveries: not only are some conventional beliefs such as the absence of a financial and trading economy of the period discredited,
Franchetti, Cody
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Homo sapiens, industrialisation and the environmental mismatch hypothesis
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For the vast majority of the evolutionary history of Homo sapiens, a range of natural environments defined the parameters within which selection shaped human biology. Although human‐induced alterations to the terrestrial biosphere have been evident for over 10,000 years, the pace and scale of change has accelerated dramatically since the onset
Daniel P. Longman, Colin N. Shaw
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Social System of the Kalmyks in the XIХ Century: Historiographical Aspect
Oriental Studies, 2018 The article is devoted to the analysis of the different opinions about character of the Kalmyk social system of the 19th century in the pre-revolutionary, soviet and modern periods.
Nataliya Matsakova
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La creación de un espacio feudal: El valle de Valdivielso
Hispania, 1997 En el norte de Cantabria y de Castilla el feudalismo se organizó sobre las «comunidades de valle», un espacio primitivo cuya estructura se mantuvo hasta la Edad Moderna.
Iñaki Martín Viso
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Karl Polanyi in Budapest: On his political and intellectual formation [PDF]
, 2009 Copyright © Archives Européennes de Sociologie 2009.A major thinker and inspiring teacher, Karl Polanyi's contributions have long been influential in a variety of disciplines, notably economic sociology and economic history.
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Science democratised = expertise decommissioned [PDF]
, 2007 Science and expertise have been antithetical forms of knowledge in both the ancient and the modern world, but they appear identical in today’s postmodern world, especially in Science & Technology Studies (STS) literature. The ancient Athenians associated
Fuller, Steve
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Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The evolution of institutions in selecting government officials in ancient China reflected efficiency considerations and increased power concentration in the hands of the ruler. Selecting government officials in ancient China became more rule‐based over time, and standardisation and centralisation were some key features of this process.
Haiwen Zhou
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The King Must Protect the Difference: The Juridical Foundations of Tantric Knowledge
Religions, 2018 Drawing upon inscriptional, art historical, as well as largely unstudied and unpublished textual evidence, this paper examines the conceptualization of religious diversity in the Medieval Deccan prior to the Islamic invasions.
Jason Schwartz
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Kantian Dignity and Marxian Socialism [PDF]
, 2017 This paper offers an account of human dignity based on a discussion of Kant's moral and political philosophy and then shows its relevance for articulating and developing in a fresh way some normative dimensions of Marx’s critique of capitalism as ...
Gilabert, Pablo
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