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“The Smell Makes Us Hungry”: When Food Is Not Medicine in Highland Madagascar

open access: yesCulture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the wake of major disruptions to global supply chains during the Covid‐19 pandemic, the island nation of Madagascar pursued initiatives for auto‐suffisance, self‐sufficiency, in food supplies and medical treatments. Farming communities in the central highlands experienced an injunction to expand cultivation of both subsistence crops and ...
Gabrielle Robbins
wiley   +1 more source

Inverted Eurocentrism: The Consumption of Decolonization in the Global North and a Radical Decolonization Agenda

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism and political economy. This article argues that the reason for this can be traced to what Samir Amin calls ‘inverted Eurocentrism’, which entails a
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
wiley   +1 more source

Imperialism, Media, and the Good Neighbor: New Deal Foreign Policy and United States Shortwave Broadcasting to Latin America

open access: yes, 1988
In Imperialism, Media, and the Good Neighbor, Professor Fred Fejes of Florida Atlantic University races and analyzes United States shortwave broadcasting policy towards Latin America during the 1930s and 1940s. While the majority of the book consists of
Soderlund, Walter C, Walter C. Soderlund
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Global Patterns of Epistemic Hierarchy and Dependency in Scientific Research

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The last three decades have witnessed significant transformations in global research systems. Increased scholarly mobility and enhanced connectivity across countries have boosted the globalization of academia. While the global nature and complexity of the international research system are undisputed, there is less agreement among scholars on ...
Andrés F. Castro Torres   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Second Epoch: Liberal Imperialism and Decolonization. 1846-1974. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
The costs and benefits of European Imperialism from the conquest of Ceuta, 1415, to the Treaty of Lusaka, 1974.Twelfth International Economic History Congress. Madrid, 1998.Patrick K.
Cain, Peter   +7 more
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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
wiley   +1 more source

“AI Cannot Speak African”: An Intersectional Feminist Perspective on South African Women's AI Engagement

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an intersectional feminist perspective, this study investigates intersectional inequalities in artificial intelligence (AI) engagement among underrepresented non‐Western women. The study employs a qualitative approach and interviews 16 corporate women in South Africa of different races.
Caren Brenda Scheepers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comic empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature, and Satirical Art

open access: yes, 2019
Comic empires is a unique collection of new research exploring the relationship between imperialism and political cartoons, caricature, and satirical art.
Varnava, Andrekos, Scully, Richard
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Dreaming and Living the Globalized World Through IELTS: A Case Study of Bangladeshi Test‐Takers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study investigated the lived experiences of 10 IELTS test‐takers from Bangladesh. It explored their motivations for taking the test as well as their test experiences during and after the test. It demonstrates how the participants sought to position themselves in the imagined community through renegotiating their identities to climb ...
Tazin Ahmed   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cimatographs, Crystal Valves and American Cultural Imperialism : the Role played by IW Schlesinger's Media Organisation at the Genesis of the South Africa's film and Radio Industries 1913-1937 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Dissertation (MHCS)--University of Pretoria, 2019.The purpose of this dissertation is to construct a corporate biography of Schlesinger with a view to establishing the extent to which he and his media empire gave effect to American cultural imperialism ...

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