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Intercultural Competencies: Understanding Monochronic and Polychronic Cultures

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This fourth publication in the Intercultural Competencies series provides valuable insights and recommendations on engaging various clientele by understanding and applying concepts related to monochronic vs. polychronic cultures.
María Fernanda Zepeda, Pablo Lamino
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Intercultural Communicative Competence: In-Service EFL Teachers Building Understanding Through Study Groups

, 2020
Luis Fernando Cuartas Álvarez
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Declaraciones de Deseo y Declaraciones de Realidad : State-Indigenous Relations and Intercultural-Bilingual Education in Peru and Guatemala [PDF]

, 2011
Ethnic diversity has historically created conflict in many nation-states throughout the globe. From the era of nation-state formation to the present, states have had various strategies for dealing with this diversity. These strategies can be divided into
Christie, Emily
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Virtual Exchange as a Strategy to Foster Global Learning and Internationalization of the Curriculum

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter describes the constitution and development of one of the first institutional initiatives for implementing a virtual exchange program in a Higher Education Institution in Brazil. The focus is on the description and discussion of the role of stakeholders in fostering and supporting virtual exchange activities, as well as examples of
Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão, José Celso Freire Junior   +1 more
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Between Deliberation and Interpretation: Social Movements’ Democratic Rationalities in Legal Discourse

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on democratization often reduces social movements’ legal engagement to deliberative rationality, obscuring how transformation operates through distinct yet complementary procedural logics. This article argues that movements democratize law through dual‐track engagement: Political deliberation universalizes moral demands via ...
Diego Alonso Ramírez Pérez
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Building Intercultural Understandings through Global Literature: An Introduction to Our Work

WOW Stories, 2011
This vignette looks at how global literature can be used to build children's intercultural understandings. The specific focus is on how global picturebooks support children’s intercultural understandings of themselves and others as cultural beings, their
Prisca Martens, Ray Martens
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Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan Futurs fluctuants : passage à l’âge adulte dans le plus grand quartier de logements sociaux de Milan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article – part of a six‐year ethnographic research project – aims to deconstruct and ‘decolonize’ essentialized notions of adolescence and youth, primarily through the application of the category of intersectionality. The research focuses on a series of educational initiatives implemented in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing ...
Paolo Grassi
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

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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Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Introducing the Anthropology of Adolescence Introduction à l'anthropologie de l'adolescence

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Adolescence is widely recognized as a key life stage, yet its meaning and experience remain under‐explored due to the complex interplay between biological and social transformations. While researchers across fields such as psychology and public health increasingly frame adolescence as a ‘critical period’, anthropology offers distinctive insights that ...
Emily H. Emmott, Benjamin Theobald, Mark Dyble   +2 more
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