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Bracing urban governance against climate crises: How to integrate high reliability into strategic decision‐making?

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, Volume 35, Issue 1, Page 103-113, February 2025.
Abstract Turning cities socio‐ecologically resilient is one of the pressing challenges in the face of ongoing climate change and accompanying extreme weather events. Despite concentrated efforts within specific urban domains, there exists a necessity for a coordinating mechanism that can concurrently monitor signals of slowly maturing long‐term crises,
Peeter Vihma, Janne I. Hukkinen
wiley   +1 more source

Moving Ahead into the Past: Historical Contexts in Recent Polish Cinema [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Moving Ahead into the Past: Historical Contexts in Recent Polish CinemaThe article looks at treatments of Poland’s 20th-century history in Polish films made over the last several years.
Anessi, Thomas
core   +2 more sources

‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020*

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 163-180, February 2025.
Abstract In Westminster‐model institutions of which the South African parliament is one, an opening ceremony takes place annually at the start of a parliamentary session. In the South African context in the early 20th century, it involved a speech by the governor general on behalf of the British monarch, but it is now known as the ‘State of the Nation ...
Rachel Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

“...not simply say that they are all Nazis.” Controversy in Discussions of Current Topics in German Civics Classes

open access: yesJournal of Social Science Education, 2016
Studies have shown that the Requirement of Controversy defined in the German Beutelsbach Consensus is repeatedly violated in the practice of teaching Civic Education.
David Jahr   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

State College Times, March 3, 1932 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1932
Volume 20, Extrahttps://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/12722/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Absence and Presence: Top of the Pops and the demand for music videos in the 1960s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version.Whilst there is a surprising critical consensus underpinning the myth that British music video began in the mid-1970s with Queen’s video for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, few scholars ...
Smith, Justin
core   +1 more source

(Re-)presentation of Everyday Heroes in German Post-war Newsreels (West-East)

open access: yesAkademisk Kvarter, 2020
In the post-war period, life was challenging and required people to stand up for the community. In the two German states, however, different views of community were propagated by the media.
Dr Sigrun Lehnert
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Most Famous Amateur Football Club in the World’: Creating and Curating the Corinthian Brand

open access: yesHistory, Volume 109, Issue 388, Page 551-572, December 2024.
Abstract Corinthian FC (1882–1938) was one of the world's most famous football clubs, despite never winning a league championship or a cup competition. At a time when association football, especially in Britain, was establishing itself as a form of commercialised entertainment with clubs organised as businesses and employing working‐class professionals,
CHRIS BOLSMANN, DILWYN PORTER
wiley   +1 more source

Dialectical Spaces in the Global Public Sphere: Media Memories across Generations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
A decade ago, CNN and MTV emerged as new types of 'global' players, initiating and supporting a new global transnational community of 'news junkies' and music cultures from New York, to Tokyo, to Buenos Aires and Los Angeles.
Ingrid Volkmer
core  

Are We Defended? Conflicting Representations of War in Pre-War France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This article examines contradictions in the way that war was represented to the French population in the interwar period. It argues that an ‘official’ representation of war gave an impression of France as a secure nation; people were discouraged from ...
Dodd, Lindsey
core  

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