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Gendering the Arab Spring [PDF]
, 2012 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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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A Triptych of Indeterminate Objects in the Urban Metabolism: Glass/ Dust/Bomb (After Paul Virilio)
Media Theory, 2019 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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SEEU Review, 2020 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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Gender &History, EarlyView.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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Spatial Practices in Borderlands: Bottom-Up Experiences and Their Influence on Border Communities [PDF]
, 2017 Differences and conflicts are most evident at borderlands, which act as balancing tools to organize and filter economic and migratory flows. The increased militarization of these areas, which often requires creating empty spaces next to the fences ...
Cimadomo, Guido
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.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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RESPONSIBILITY AND OBLIVION: GERMANY’S BIG BUSINESS BETWEEN NAZISM AND THE SOCIAL MARKET ECONOMY [PDF]
Научно-аналитический вестник Института Европы РАНThis 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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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.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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Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments [PDF]
, 1999 Over the past 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American law enforcement.
Diane Cecilia Weber
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