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Integration in the Shadow of Austerity—Refugees in Newcastle upon Tyne

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2019
Newcastle upon Tyne, a post-industrial city in the North East of England, has long been committed to hosting refugees. Although the city has suffered drastic cuts in government funding and faces high levels of deprivation, Newcastle declared itself a ...
Matthias Flug, Jason Hussein
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Political Activism in Canada: When Tibetans in Toronto Enter into Local Politics

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2022
This article investigates the political mobilization of Tibetans in Toronto. I develop the hypothesis that Tibetans in Toronto who enter into local politics are already politicized, which facilitates the transition from activism within the Tibetan ...
Anne-Sophie Bentz
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Disorientasi Politik dan Peran Intermediary Kelas Menengah To Pulo: Politik Lokal di Kepulauan Selayar Pasca Orde Baru

open access: yesJSP: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik, 2016
This paper discusses the emergence of social movements To Pulo with the issue of a new government and the development of the New Order. Today, the issue is increasingly disappearing in local political discourse in Kepulauan Selayar.
Abu Bakar
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Arène de l’orpaillage : acteurs et enjeux des centrales d’achat d’or de Kadiolo, au Mali

open access: yesRevue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2022
For more than a decade, the Kadiolo gold deposits in the Sikasso region have drawn many local and migrant gold miners of various nationalities. In this context of human influx and pressure on resources, the idea of gold group purchasing organizations has
N’gna Traoré
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Research on online public opinion dissemination and emergency countermeasures of food safety in universities—take the rat head and duck neck incident in China as an example

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
In recent years, food safety accidents have occurred frequently in colleges and universities, and students are prone to emotional resonance with food safety.
Jinsi Liu   +6 more
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From Margin to Mainstream: Informal Street Vendors and Local Politics in Kolkata, India

open access: yesL'Espace Politique, 2016
Informed by the ‘right to the city’ literature a large body of research on urban transformation in India and other developing countries had shown how Global city aspirations of the urban elites have increasingly come about through commoditisation of ...
Tathagata Chatterji, Souvanic Roy
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Local Political Leadership and the Modernisation of Local Government [PDF]

open access: yesLocal Government Studies, 2010
Abstract Political leadership has been a key element of central government's attempts to ‘modernise’ local government over the past decade, within a discourse that emphasised ‘strong’ and ‘visible’ leadership and the role of leaders and leadership in driving change within local authorities. In the context of such an approach, and also taking account of
Catherine Bochel, Hugh Bochel
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Women as mayors: the political representation of women in the leadership of Slovak municipalities after the municipal elections in the year 2010 [PDF]

open access: yesAnnales Scientia Politica, 2018
The paper analyses women’s representation at the local level in Slovakia, or at the level of all (almost three thousand) Slovak municipalities, respectively.
Pave Maškarinec
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THE LOCAL POLITICS OF ORTHODOXY: The Majelis Ulama Indonesia in the Post-New Order Banten

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Islam, 2012
The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) has played an important role in guarding the Sunni orthodoxy in contemporary Indonesia. As it has chapters in almost parts of Indonesia in the provincial, district and municipality level, this role has been also ...
Moch. Nur Ichwan
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Residual tail twisting in ascidian larvae is stabilized by asymmetric myofibrils that resist bilateral symmetry restoration

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Ascidian Ciona larvae initially show strong clockwise tail twisting, which is largely corrected during development. However, a small residual twist remains. This study shows that organized helical myofibrils in tail muscles mechanically stabilize this residual asymmetry, preventing complete restoration of bilateral symmetry and revealing how embryos ...
Yuki S. Kogure   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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