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Children's Constructive Play as Materialised Memory Practice

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how memory becomes entangled with materials in children's constructive play. Using visual ethnography, elicitation interviews and Visual Network Analysis with a 15‐year‐old Mongolian child living in Finland, the findings reveal that memory is not a fixed recollection of the past but a relational, non‐linear process enacted ...
Sinyoung Kim, Kristiina Kumpulainen
wiley   +1 more source

Cartography and the Political Imagination Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya

open access: yes
Encompassing history, geography, and political science, MacArthur's study evaluates the role of geographic imagination and the impact of cartography not only as means of expressing imperial power and constraining colonized populations, but as tools for ...
MacArthur, Julie.
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Towards a Cumulative, Open, Online Bibliography of the Literature of the History of Cartography

open access: yes, 2021
Presentation given at the 2021 Virgina Garrett Lectures Symposium on the History of Cartography at The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries\u27 Special Collections and Archives in October ...
Karrow, Robert, Horst, Thomas
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The (In)visibility of the SDGs in Students' Learning in England: Evidence From Focus Groups With 15‐Year‐Olds

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the English key stage four curriculum, where pupils are preparing for standardised assessment at age 16, many subjects include content pertinent to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, due to the assessment focus and exam content of this educational phase, these are rarely explicitly referenced or discussed.
Penelope Williams, Gwadabe Kurawa
wiley   +1 more source

Pioneers of the History of Cartography: the Geneva map collection of Élisée Reclus and Charles Perron

open access: yes, 2013
International audienceIn recent years, researchers have rediscovered the important cartographic collection of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) and Charles Perron (1837-1909), which contains more than 10,000 maps of all kinds from the sixteenth to the twentieth ...
Federico Ferretti   +3 more
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The world image in maps: Earth presentation in maps from the Old Ages to Mercator

open access: yes, 2008
Studying the aborigines´ "dreamtime"-maps or 16th century engravings from Dutch cartographers, one can lose herself in their beauty. Casually, cartography is a kind of art.
Lechthaler, Mirjanka
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Mapping the End of the World Technology and Antarctic Cartography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Maps are used either as a way to communicate knowledge or, in the display of data, as a way to synthesize knowledge. Throughout history cartography has been used for both of these purposes and the result is that maps have become objects that tell a ...
Hawkey, Josie
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An effective model for community‐based conservation around authorized fishing settlements inside a devolved Wildlife Management Area in southern Tanzania

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
This study examines the relationship between community‐defined land use plans and de facto land use practices, and the influence of the latter on the relative abundance and distribution of large wild mammals across the Ifakara‐Lupiro‐Mangula (ILUMA) WMA, which acts as a key buffer zone between Nyerere National Park (NNP) to the east and adjacent ...
Lily M. Duggan   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
wiley   +1 more source

Imago Mundi Included in the Thomson Reuters Databases

open access: yesKartografija i Geoinformacije, 2012
Imago Mundi – The International Journal for the History of Cartography is dedicated exclusively to the research of early maps in all of their aspects. It publishes papers related to the history and interpretation of those maps and their production in any
Nedjeljko Frančula
doaj  

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