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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Subnational Border Reforms and Economic Activity in Africa
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using GIS methods, we identify territories in Africa affected by subnational border reforms between 1992 and 2013. Descriptive statistics reveal that these territories differed from other African regions across several key dimensions. For example, these territories were more populous and exhibited greater ethnic diversity.
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Sebastian Blesse
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Using Local Expert Knowledge to Measure Prices: Evidence From a Survey Experiment in Vietnam
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many countries lack spatially disaggregated consumer price data needed to estimate real inequality and spatial patterns of poverty. Such data are especially absent in poor countries where weak infrastructure and high transport costs create large price variation over space.
John Gibson, Trinh Le
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Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Inland waterways are vital for facilitating market access and promoting economic development worldwide. This paper explores this relationship by examining the impact of navigational channel regulation works on the Yangtze River mainstream, China's longest inland waterway.
Yufei Peng +2 more
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Sedimentology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Paralic depositional systems are complex and heterogeneous sedimentary environments, presenting challenges for predicting reservoir architecture and connectivity. Their stratigraphic and facies variability arises from the dynamic interplay between fluvial, tidal and wave processes, and their sensitivity to sea‐level fluctuations, sediment ...
Luis Miguel Yeste +4 more
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Slab tearing and its surface signals controlled by passive margin strength. [PDF]
Nat CommunMaiti G +4 more
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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, EarlyView.This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling +2 more
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The effect of port development on the decoupling of urban development and hinterland pollution. [PDF]
Sci RepJi X, Ding X, Zhang Y, Wang C.
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Tariff Transmission Across US Customs Districts: Product‐Level Evidence From Successive Trade Shocks
The World Economy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper asks how US tariffs on Chinese imports reshape trade across the nation's customs districts, and whether a district's earlier reliance on China shapes how deeply its imports fall. We build a monthly panel of HS6‐level US imports from eleven source countries arriving through eight customs districts between January 2017 and December ...
Wenhao Yao, Shimiao Su, Yunan Yao
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