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Green Transition, Extractive Continuities: Lithium Mining and the Environmental Contradictions of Sustainability

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global decarbonization has positioned lithium as a strategic mineral for electric vehicles, battery storage, and low‐carbon development. Yet its extraction raises serious environmental, political, and justice concerns that complicate dominant narratives of clean energy progress.
Jacob Kwakye
wiley   +1 more source

Nacionalización y nacionalismo cotidiano: una panorámica

open access: yesHistoria Crítica
Objective/context: Studies on nationalism have recently evolved toward a growing interest in nationalization. In particular, greater attention has been paid to the construction of national identities “from below” and to the multiple ways in which, in ...
Claudio Hernández Burgos   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
wiley   +1 more source

Daewoo, Thomson, and Privatization in Late-Twentieth-Century France

open access: yesHistories
The region of Lorraine in France witnessed the collapse of the steel industries in the late twentieth century, causing massive job losses and social devastation.
Jill Harsin
doaj   +1 more source

Party system nationalization in Estonia

open access: yesBaltic Region, 2020
This article explores the Estonian ‘integration’ project, which was launched in the early 1990s to bridge the differences between ethnic Estonians and ethnic Russians by assimilating the latter with the former. Since the project will soon turn thirty, it
Lanko D. A. , Lantsova I. S.
doaj   +1 more source

Nation-making and nationalism

open access: yes, 2018
Conflicts between the Spanish Crown and colonizers created tumultuous conditions in which enemies became allies and the seeds of nationalism were sown amidst treachery and betrayal. This chapter examines the chaotic nineteenth century and how it set the stage for debates that have lasted to the present regarding how Andean nations should be ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Forthcoming General Election in the Republic of Ireland: Winds of (Left‐Wing) Change or Plus Ça Change?

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 180-188, January/March 2025.
Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
wiley   +1 more source

Wilsons Moment? Wilsons Deutungen von Demokratie und Nation, ihre nationalen Rezeptionen und die Bedeutung für die Grenzkonflikte in Oberschlesien, dem Teschener Schlesien und der Orava

open access: yesZeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
While the discussion in historical scholarship to date has focused undoubtedly on Wilson’s importance to the postulate of national self-determination, this paper shifts the focus and shows that the linchpin of Wilson’s thinking was democracy.
Steffen Kailitz
doaj   +1 more source

Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.
Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
wiley   +1 more source

Building land as a subject to restitution process [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2017
Ownership right on building land is one of the property rights which had been deprived from citizens by state authorities in the period after the Second World War, while there were a lot of legal bases for deprivation.
Kukuruzović Danijela
doaj  

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