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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how an online eikaiwa (English conversation) provider in Japan that employs only female Eastern European (particularly Ukrainian) teachers brands them through objectification. Analysis of textual and visual elements of the provider's website and related media, including videos, demonstrates that the teachers are ...
Misako Tajima
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Interpreting Barth's Eschatology: An Eco‐Theological Reappraisal
International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Critical eco‐theologians do not consider Karl Barth's theology of creation helpful in addressing the contemporary ecological crisis. In this article, I explore a way to interpret Barth's theology that could lead to a fruitful eco‐theological perspective.
Othniël de Jong
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A Causal Map Framework to Explain Support for Strong Leaders in Politics
International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article introduces a computational theory explaining why some people support strong leaders in politics, arguing that this support sometimes arises because people view a strong leader as means to address social problems. The theory proposes that people develop a causal map concerning the consequences of the rise of a strong leader.
Francesco Rigoli
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Preliminary Analysis of Hemocyanins in Hemolymph Plasma of Baikal Endemic Amphipods [PDF]
Journal of Stress Physiology & Biochemistry, 2016 Two-dimensional electrophoresis of plasma hemolymph proteins of several endemic Baikal amphipod species showed that, as expected, hemocyanin is the main major protein in plasma of these species.
D.S. Bedulina +5 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents a new way of obtaining deep explanations of environmental problems. We expose the production strategies, corporate strategies and state actions that have been taken by firms and state agencies to facilitate the geographical expansion of the wood‐based commodity frontier at the expense of reindeer pastoralists among the ...
David Harnesk, Lars Östlund
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
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ReactionsIn this work, an attempt is made to theoretically substantiate the experimentally known facts of the influence of halogen concentration on the catalytic properties of the neodymium-based Ziegler–Natta system.
Alexey N. Masliy +3 more
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Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
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A crise dos bens culturais como mercadorias | The crisis of cultural goods as merchandise
Liinc em Revista, 2009 Resumo A digitalização das informações provocou uma crise na apropriação privada dos bens culturais como mercadorias. Paralelamente, movimentos políticos vêm se organizando internacionalmente, visando ao questionamento do tratamento dos bens culturais ...
Ronaldo Fiani
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