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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Swartkrans <i>Paranthropus</i> and Sterkfontein <i>Australopithecus</i> from southern Africa had different locomotor repertoires. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Cazenave M   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

On the undesirable repercussions of gender norms in an endogenous growth model

open access: yesThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Sustainable growth has emerged as a critical policy challenge worldwide. We investigate the influence of conventional gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high‐income countries. To this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply ...
Ryo Sakamoto, Katsunori Minami
wiley   +1 more source

Modern Technological Advances and the Challenges in the Kente Weaving Business of Ghana

open access: yesTEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH, 2019
openaire   +1 more source

The Emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies: Comparing Differences in the Creation of Academic Programs With Ties to Social Movements in US Higher Education

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
wiley   +1 more source

The Need to Revitalise Drug Use Monitoring to Keep Pace With a More Dynamic, Digitally Enabled and Globally Connected Drug Market. [PDF]

open access: yesDrug Alcohol Rev
Griffiths P   +21 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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