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Injertarse en la Historia. Gesto creativo y estrategias de reapropiación en el activismo global. [PDF]
, 2013 Resumen: Este trabajo trata de desentrañar los modos en que los actuales movimientos sociales impulsan un proceso de reapropiación que se extiende en diversos ámbitos.
González Marí, Ximo
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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Latin American "free-trade unionism" and the cold War: an analysis based on educational policies [PDF]
, 2017 The political education of workers and their leaders was viewed as a strategic concern in the cold war period’s bipolar world. This article discusses how this issue was dealt with by Latin American reformist trade unions grouped together in the Inter ...
Scodeller, Gabriela Noemi
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Diplomatic devices : the social lives of foreign timepieces in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan [PDF]
, 2020 The present paper explores the social lives of European timepieces as a particular set of objects in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan, when the archipelago first encountered the “Southern Barbarians” from Portugal and Spain.
Koch, Angelika
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Canopy laser scanning (CLS) enhances 3D measurements of large trees by lifting laser scanners into the canopy. Combining CLS with terrestrial laser scanning improves point cloud precision, reduces occlusion and enables detailed assessments of tree architecture and canopy biodiversity, opening new opportunities for forest ecology.
Barbara D'hont +12 more
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LA HISTORIA GLOBAL: ¿ENCRUCIJADA DE LA CONTEMPORANEIDAD? [PDF]
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2006 The article presents a metaphor of the world as a historic category, suggesting that the planet is no longer the scenery where a group of histories take place, but rather a history on its own. With the purpose of turning such image into a concept of social theory, the author digs into the issue of the strengthening of the globalization and transit ...
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De lo social a lo político. La acción de las mujeres latinoamericanas. [PDF]
, 2011 El estudio de la historia de las mujeres es una disciplina que ha crecido a raudales en las últimas décadas. Esta obra es otra contribución más al conocimiento de la historia femenina latinoamericana, pues entrega una rica pléyade de protagonistas ...
Antivilo, Julia
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Social policies in Italian Fascism. Authoritarian strategies and social integration [PDF]
, 2019 The essay will retrace some of the fundamental steps concerning the development of the Italian welfare state during the years of Fascism, framing them within the most recent historiographical debate as well as in the context of some national and ...
GIORGI, Maria Chiara
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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Income distribution in the Latin American Southern Cone during the first globalization boom, ca: 1870-1920 [PDF]
, 2008 Latin America is the most unequal region in the world and there is a lively debate concerning the explanations and timing of such high levels of income inequality.
Bértola, Luis +3 more
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