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‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

The Borders of Boundlessness: A Reassessment of the Dissolution of Boundaries in in the Contemporary Artworld

open access: yesArtium Quaestiones
In this article, the early critique of intermedia aesthetics and border-crossing in the arts is reassessed against the background of the contemporary dissolution not only of media boundaries but also of disciplinary, categorical, social boundaries.
Jörg Scheller
doaj   +1 more source

Politicized Framing of the Future: Encouraging Innovation in Mature Ecosystems in the Face of Asymmetric De Alio Entrants

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Hubs and participants of mature ecosystems increasingly compete with de alio entrants that are hubs of more innovative ecosystems. Prior research shows how these asymmetric de alio entrants frame to win over participants from mature ecosystems and suggests that hubs of these ecosystems should respond by encouraging innovation among ...
Georg Reischauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Speaker Perceptions of Americanisms in Nigerian English

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perceptions of Americanisms among three generations of Nigerians. While prior research has provided quantitative evidence for American influence in contemporary Nigerian English, the role of language beliefs and ideologies in mediating such changes remains underexplored.
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means

open access: yesJournal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Digital Interactional Competence for Second‐Language and First‐Language Chinese Speakers: Effects of Proficiency, Mode, and Setting

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Measurement of interactional competence (IC) has attracted increasing interest in language assessment research. One key question is whether proficiency sufficiently accounts for IC, making separate IC assessment unnecessary. This study examines the IC–proficiency relationship using a test that assesses Chinese speakers’ ability to manage ...
David Wei Dai, Carsten Roever
wiley   +1 more source

What Voting Power Cannot Be

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “Almost everyone,” Ronald Dworkin wrote in Sovereign Virtue, “assumes that democracy means equal voting power.” What, then, is voting power? The standard view defines it as the probability that a vote changes the outcome assuming that each possible combination of votes is equiprobable.
Daniel Wodak
wiley   +1 more source

Size of chloroplasts in Arabidopsis mesophyll cells affects jasmonate biosynthesis

open access: yesPlant Biology, EarlyView.
The relationship between chloroplast structure and hormone biosynthesis capacity is poorly understood. This study shows that mutants harbouring giant chloroplasts produce more jasmonic acid upon mechanical stress than wild‐type plants, suggesting that organellar architecture is a previously unrecognized factor associated with plant hormone biosynthesis
R. Baral   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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