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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Abstracts from the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Ethnic and Minority Studies [PDF]
, 1987 Each year the conference organizers attempt to provide a complete overview of the Annual Conference by publishing abstracts of the papers and presentations as well as the comments provided by the respondents to each session.
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Contributing to global urban history, planning theory and the geography of ideas, this article discusses the travels of Henri Lefebvre’s The Right to the City in the wake of May 1968, in France. That year, under the direction of Mario González and Max Baquero, a small team including the Italian architect Vittorio Garatti, French planner Jean ...
William Kutz
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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INONDATIONS TORRENTIELLES EN ZONES MONTAGNEUSES AFFÉRENTES AU GOLFE DU MEXIQUE [PDF]
Revue Roumaine de Géographie, 2009 Global warming is no longer contested by the scientific community since there are numerous proofs attesting to it (ice-melt, rising sea levels, ecological modifications, instrumental measurements, information processing, simulations, etc).
JEAN-NOËL SALOMON
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Telecommunications forecast for ITU Region 2 to the year 1995 [PDF]
Telecommunications activity was studied. The primary objective was to forecast the need for fixed service satellites (FSS) by countries within ITU Region 2 excluding the United States and Greenland.
Hollansworth, J. E. +2 more
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Conservation Biology of Elasmobranchs [PDF]
, 1993 Elasmobranchs are vital and valuable components of the marine biota. From an ecological perspective they occupy the role of top predators within marine food webs, providing a regulatory control that helps balance the ecosystem.
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, 2003 "Seventy eight abdomens of the spiny lobster Panulirus argus were obtainedfrom June to November 2000 from a commercial Fishery Cooperative atPunta Allen, in the Mexican Caribbean Sea. From a total of 28 parasitized lobsters,720 encysted metacercariae of the family Brachycoeliidae were found inthe abdominal muscle.
Mayra I. Grano MALDONADO +3 more
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GEOPOLITICS AND TRANSPORTATION. UNITED STATES AND PANAMA CANAL [PDF]
This article presents the great connection which exists between the realization of Panama Canal and the rising power on United States; and how this state, after the construction of this canal, could promote efficiently at global level its interests ...
Benea Ciprian Beniamin
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