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We Live Surrounded by Pigs: Naming the Space [PDF]
The geographical nickname is a complex entity, both geographic, social and linguistic. The study is a sociolinguistic one. It focuses on the relation between language and space in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Romania.
Dan Ungureanu
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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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Experts' Judgments of Management Journal Quality:An Identity Concerns Model [PDF]
Many lists that purport to gauge the quality of journals in management and organization studies (MOS) are based on the judgments of experts in the field.
Aiken L. S. +49 more
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Understanding European cross-border cooperation: a framework for analysis [PDF]
European integration has had a dual impact on border regions. On the one hand, borders were physically dismantled across most of the EU’s internal territory.
Aron R. +15 more
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Post-Saddam Shiism and the end of the holy geography regret syndrome in Shiism [PDF]
Religious systems spread across geographical contexts and thus form their own historical and geographical formations. The existing understanding and analysis of Shiite formulation is mainly concentrated on its time and historical developments.
J. Rahmani
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Historically the gagauz developed a self-perception based on their difference from Moldova as well as the ‘Turkish world’. The article argues that this fact has determined their pro-Russian political orientation as the only possible way of maintaining ...
A. V. Salavatova
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‘Of course we must be equal, but …’: imagining gendered futures in two rural Southern African secondary schools [PDF]
Based on focus group discussions held with students at rural secondary schools in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, this paper argues that secondary schools provide important spaces for the (re)construction of gendered identities among rural girls in southern Africa.
Ansell, N
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Capital as a Center of State-building: Historical Memory about ‘Capitalness’ in Kasimov
The article concerns functional elements of “capital” at the example of the Russian provincial town – Kasimov and seeks to explain the influence of the muth about “capitalness” on the construction of a nation.
S. O. Savin
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Space Identity and Psychosomatic [PDF]
The concept of space identity that has been redefined in geographical sciences, has a significant impact on the human's behavior as well as his/her experimental and emotional knowledge. Many researchers of cognitive sciences believe that this concept has
Saba Sepahvand, Mohammad Hossain Ramesht
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Spatial Identity of a Borderland City of Blagoveshensk
The article regards the influence of Chinese city Heihe on the structurualisation of geographical identity in the Russian wide-open frontier city – Blagoveshensk.
N. A. Manzhina
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