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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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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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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although there is a burgeoning scholarship on the Venezuelan migration crisis, few of these studies critically engage with diaspora thought. This article draws on Ipek Demir's conceptualisation of diaspora as translation to explore the analytical purchase of the concept for understanding Venezuelan displacement.
Francisco Llinas Casas
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Brazil accounts for a substantial share of the global leprosy burden, with persistent high‐risk areas and marked spatial inequalities in case detection. Identifying spatiotemporal clusters of transmission is crucial for targeting surveillance and control efforts.
Anderson Fuentes Ferreira +9 more
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Geometric data for testing implementations of point reduction algorithms : case study using Mapshaper v 0.2.28 and previous versions [PDF]
There are several open source and commercial implementations of the Visvalingam algorithm for line generalisation. The algorithm provides scope for implementation-specific interpretations, with different outcomes.
Visvalingam, Maheswari
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Mapping meanings: methodological innovations to restore memories of place in a public park in Santiago de Chile. [PDF]
Front PsycholValenzuela L +4 more
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Green Refrontierisation: Critical Cartographies of the Hydrogen Rush in Africa
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps present within the reports of European states, lobby groups and investment bodies to examine the role of geographical knowledge in the production of low‐carbon energy frontiers. It identifies three spatio‐political strategies present within these maps
William Monteith
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