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Effects of Hydrothermal-Chemical Treatments on Bending Performance and Physical-Mechanical Properties of Four Timber Species

open access: yesBioResources
The bending behavior of four key timber species (Fraxinus chinensis, teak, rubberwood, and Pinus yunnanensis) was evaluated under hydrothermal-chemical treatments. Controlled experiments at varying moisture contents (20 to 60%), temperatures (100 to 140 °
Huajie Shen   +8 more
doaj  

INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial distribution characteristics and influencing factors of intangible cultural heritage in Shanxi Province, China

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science
Shanxi Province carries a profound historical and cultural accumulation and diversified regional and cultural characteristics. Comprehensive research on the spatial Characteristics of intangible cultural heritage in Shanxi Province and its influencing ...
Lijin Zhao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenizing the Ledger: An Indigenous Pathway to Accounting « Autochtoniser » le grand livre : une voie autochtone vers la profession comptable

open access: yesAccounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous accountants are underrepresented in Canadian accounting practice and education despite ongoing educational and employment recruitment strategies. This article explores reasons why current Indigenous employment strategies seem not to be working by examining cultural chasms between Indigenous and Eurocentric worldviews.
Justin (Jah'kota) Holness   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firm Financial Performance: Disentangling the Corporate Gender Diversity as Driver of ESG Disclosure in EU Companies

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between gender diversity in senior corporate positions and environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, alongside their impact on corporate financial performance across European Union companies.
Paolo Saona, Laura Muro
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Intangible Cultural Heritage: Conceptual Approaches to the Phenomenon Definition

open access: hybrid, 2022
Irina А. Kuptsova   +1 more
openalex   +1 more source

Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
wiley   +1 more source

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