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The impact of gamification processes on the militarization of the younger generation [PDF]
Introduction. The issue of the impact of gamification on socio-psychological processes against the background of intensive digitalization of society’s life over the past few years has aroused increased interest in various academic fields, including
Vorozheykin, Sergey Andreevich
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ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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A Triptych of Indeterminate Objects in the Urban Metabolism: Glass/ Dust/Bomb (After Paul Virilio)
This article uses various conceits from Paul Virlio’s thought to explore the ramifications of “indeterminate objects” to explore their effects on urban formations, media/mediated thought and human positionings within them, in terms of subjects in ...
Ryan Bishop
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The 2016 United Nations’ Resolution 2325 “Non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction” manifests one of the greatest challenges for humankind in relation to preventing a global catastrophe, where it reaffirms that the proliferation of nuclear ...
Stojchevska Stefani
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Conservation and crime convergence? Situating the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference [PDF]
The 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) Conference was the fourth and biggest meeting on IWT convened at the initiative of the UK Government. Using a collaborative event ethnography, we examine the Conference as a site where key actors defined the ...
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Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
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Gendering the Arab Spring [PDF]
The article discusses the gendered implications of recent political developments in the region. It argues that women and gender are key to both revolutionary and counter- revolutionary processes and developments and not marginal to them.
Al-Ali, Nadje
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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RESPONSIBILITY AND OBLIVION: GERMANY’S BIG BUSINESS BETWEEN NAZISM AND THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY [PDF]
This article examines the evolution of the role played by German big business in Nazi Germany and in the post-war Federal Republic through the lens of historical memory.
Vladislav B. Belov
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