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Street Cries and Public Space Noise Abatement in 19th‐20th Century Barcelona

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Focusing on Barcelona, this paper explores the historical and contemporary dynamics of street cries that allow traders to attract customers and make themselves heard in public spaces. While still common in marketplaces in southern Europe, there is a growing trend towards silencing these street cries in the name of reducing urban noise levels ...
Maria Lindmäe
wiley   +1 more source

Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
wiley   +1 more source

Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

Finding Dr Florence Buchanan: The recovered face and fuller life story of a scientific legend

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Dr Florence Buchanan (1867–1931) was one of physiology's foundational women. Trained as a zoologist at University College London (UCL), she became an exacting physiologist whose studies of muscle bioelectricity, reflexes, cardiac rhythm and exercise helped shape twentieth‐century physiology.
Brian C. Clark   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rituals of writing otherwise

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Drawing on theories of ritual as performative and transformative, this flash tip offers practical suggestions and examples for creating a ritual of writing otherwise, including companion texts, sensory and material cues to frame the ritual practice, writing collectively, and attitudes we might articulate and cultivate.
Madelyn Prevost
wiley   +1 more source

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