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Indigenous Administrative Reform: Exploring Complexity in Local Ways
Abstract Several Indigenous communities and organizations are engaging in various resurgence initiatives, including those activities that restore their cultural administrative identity. The pathways to reforms are several but often follow a treaty relationship that recognizes Indigenous ways of knowing and doing.
Andrea L.K. Johnston, Robert P. Shepherd
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The carbon emission reductions from using residual forest biomass for bioenergy remain controversial, despite its potential to mitigate climate change. This study evaluated how intensifying wood procurement for bioenergy, alongside supplying fiber for conventional wood industries, can support low‐carbon forest management.
Claudie‐Maude Canuel +2 more
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Strengthening health‐focused climate adaptation in Canada: Barriers and interventions
Abstract Climate change poses a dire threat to human health. Within Canada, extreme heat events are contributing to cardiovascular disease, poor air quality is causing respiratory distress, and changing precipitation patterns are resulting in the spread of vector‐borne illness.
Desiree Rose, S. Jeff Birchall
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Abstract We assess content, evolution and determinants of COVID‐19 disclosures in accounting documents using natural language processing for TSX60 firms. We evaluate sentiment, extent of disclosure, choice of disclosure medium, links to governance, and the relationship with performance. We focus on accounting‐related disclosures, an understudied aspect
Merridee Bujaki +2 more
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‘Beware of dalals’: a moral world of health market brokerage in Bangladesh
Abstract Anthropological enquiry into brokers and brokerage practice provides a prime entry point for making sense of social change. This article tends to the ways in which the trope of the broker and the everyday practice of those identified as enacting brokerage act as linchpins in broader moral grappling during a period of rapid social change.
Janet E. Perkins
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The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth‐century Egypt
Abstract The transplantation of European legal systems in the periphery often occurred via semi‐colonial institutions, where Europeans were subject to their own jurisdictions that placed them outside the reach of local courts. In nineteenth‐century Egypt, the option of extraterritoriality was extended to local non‐Muslims. Drawing on Egypt's population
Cihan Artunç, Mohamed Saleh
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Résumé L'étude de l'histoire contemporaine de la géographie au prisme de la sociologie des professions permet de s'intéresser aux « trajectoires professionnelles », et ce, à titre d'objets. Par l'analyse de documents d'archives, trois périodes ont pu être établies, montrant ainsi les particularités contextuelles des débats entourant la présence des ...
Raphaël Pelletier
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Quality Improvement Support Agencies as a systemic quality strategy: France and Québec
Abstract In a high‐quality health and social services system, policymakers encourage action at all levels of change to ensure the consistency of quality strategies. This is especially important at the systemic level, in which the other three levels of change are nested. This study aims to present an analysis of Quality Improvement Support Agencies as a
Labante Outcha Dare +2 more
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Derrida and the exemplarity of literature
Abstract Jacques Derrida's scattered remarks on the ambiguous role examples play in the passage between the universal and the singular revolve around an often‐neglected point: any attempt to theorise exemplarity will itself be subject to the law it seeks to account for.
Kristian Olesen Toft
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Seeding policy: Viral cash and the diverse trajectories of basic income in the United States
Abstract During the COVID‐19 pandemic, cities in the United States of America developed more that 100 basic income pilots. This article examines the heretofore hidden impact of the pandemic on the future extension of basic income programmes at the sub‐national level.
Marc Doussard
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