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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Between utopia and precarity: subsistence labour as embodied technology in Indian ecological documentaries. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Sundriyal A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
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Neo-colonialism and financing for the war on drugs: a review of current policy and recommendations for countries in the global north. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J
Daniels C, Burke-Shyne N, Cook C, Beattie A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Large-scale green grabbing for wind and solar PV development in Brazil

, 2023
Klingler M, Ameli N, Rickman J, Schmidt J.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
wiley   +1 more source

Land tenure regimes influenced long-term restoration gains and reversals across Brazil's Atlantic forest. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Benzeev R, Zhang S, Piffer PR, Mills-Novoa M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

The entangled Indigenous, rural, and urban realities in Amazônia's governance. [PDF]

Ambio
Brondizio ES.
europepmc   +1 more source

Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through things like their clothing. But this raises a puzzle: How can you touch someone without directly touching the surface of their body?
William Hornett, Robert Morgan
wiley   +1 more source