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(Re)Pairing With Water: Climate Finance and the Prefigurative Positions of an Ocean Counter‐Politics
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper takes up recent calls to work ‘for and against climate capitalism’ to foreground the possibility of strategic engagements within capitalist structures that could destabilise its long‐standing exploitative dynamics. In doing so, it locates prefigurative positions of an ocean counter‐politics generated through novel blue financial ...
Carlo Ceglia
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Disciplining Desire: Rethinking Racial Capitalism Through Black Queer Resistance
Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT In Black communities, heteronormativity installs the belief that Black people are inherently straight, erasing Black Queer histories. Despite its significance, homophobia remains underexamined in racial capitalism discourse, which neglects the interplay of race, gender, sexuality, and capital.
Seon Yuzyk
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Contact and Language Change: Using the Present to Explain the Past1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 409-427, November 2025.Abstract Although we may know the outcome of language changes that could have resulted from language contact in the past, we are unlikely to know how and why these changes occurred unless we also know about the individual speakers who came into contact and the nature of their interactions—information that all too often is impossible to uncover.
Jenny Cheshire
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Conservation Biology, Volume 39, Issue 5, October 2025.Abstract Small‐scale fisheries often lack historical shark and ray catch information, hampering their management. We reconstructed historical catch trends and current fishing pressure by combining local ecological knowledge, satellite‐based vessel counts, and a short‐term landing‐site survey.
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The imagined island: Colonialism and constructed remoteness on Diego Garcia
The Geographical Journal, Volume 190, Issue 4, December 2024.Abstract Colonial powers have long used islands and island forms for imperial projects, including military bases, weapons testing, resource mining and migrant detention. In order to pursue these interests, colonial powers have often sought geographically remote sites, but they further rely on the construction of remoteness. This article reflects on the
Kate Motluk
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‘Executive robbery’: UK public law, race, and ‘regimes of dispossession’ in the Chagos Archipelago
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 51, Issue 1, Page 57-81, March 2024.Abstract This article explores the relationship between United Kingdom (UK) public law and ‘regimes of dispossession’, taking the Chagos Archipelago as its point of departure. This article argues that this instance of dispossession, typically understood as fortifying the military power of the United States, was also part of a wider geography of states ...
TANZIL CHOWDHURY
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The acquisition of Mauritian creole
, 1995 Resenha de: The acquisition of Mauritian creole. De Dany Adone, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Effects of ethnicity and gender on youth health
Cogent Social Sciences, 2016 This study investigated the effects of ethnicity and gender on the health of young people (14–25 years old) living in Mauritius. Combinations of female and male by four ethnic groups—“Creole”, “Hindu”, “Muslim” and “Mixed”—were used for multivariate ...
Komalsingh Rambaree, Igor Knez
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Études CréolesThe exceptional linguistic diversity of Mauritius makes it a particularly fertile ground for the development of contact phonology and, in particular, the phonology of borrowings.
Elissa Pustka, Shrita Hassamal
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Études CréolesIn this article, we analyze two palatal features in Mauritian Creole based on an oral corpus of 19 speakers: the nasal /ɲ/ and the affrication of the anterior plosives /t/ and /d/ before [i], [j], [y], and [ɥ].
Marc Chalier, Muhsina Alleesaib
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