Disability, Citizenship and Uncivilized Society: The smooth and nomadic qualities of self-advocacy [PDF]
Disability Studies Quarterly, 2008 People with the label of "intellectual disabilities"1 are often objectified and devalued by master narratives of deviance, tragedy and lack. In this paper, we draw on poststructuralist and feminist resources (e.g. Deleuze & Guattari 1987 and Braidotti 1994, 2002, 2006a) to argue that a disabling society is uncivilized in ways that block the ...
Roets, Griet, Goodley, Dan
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Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2023 The south of Russia and the transboundary Caspian region are an important geographical and historical-cultural place in the world where there were territories of nomadic civilisation.
E. U. Omakaeva, E. N. Badmaeva
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Obligations of Kalmyks and Activity of the Zargo in the Early 19th Century
Монголоведение, 2023 Introduction. The paper examines the correspondence between Civil Governor of Astrakhan S. Andreevsky and rulers, landlords of Kalmyk uluses — for an attempted analysis of the Zargo’s activity and common obligations imposed on residents of Astrakhan ...
Evgeniy A. Komandzhaev
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Fair Trade in a Nomadic Society (in Kalmyk Steppe in Second Half of 19th — Early 20th Centuries)
Научный диалог, 2023 The issues of organization and functioning of fair trade in a nomadic society are studied on the example of the Kalmyk steppe in the second half of the 19th — early 20th centuries.
I. V. Lidzhieva
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Defining ethnicity in a cultural and socio-legal context : the case of Scottish gypsy-travellers [PDF]
, 2006 Scottish Gypsy/Travellers are 'to be regarded' as an ethnic group in Scotland by both the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive until a test case in a court of law clarifies matters.
Clark, Colin
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Space and Culture, India, 2019 The main aim of the research is to analyse the process of transformation of the nomadic Kazakh society in the 18th Century and the first half of the 19th Centuries.
S Razdykov +4 more
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The Glacier Complexes of the Mountain Massifs of the North-West of Inner Asia and their Dynamics [PDF]
, 2011 The subject of this paper is the glaciation of the mountain massifs Mongun-Taiga, Tavan-Boghd-Ola, Turgeni- Nuru, and Harhira-Nuru. The glaciation is represented mostly by small forms that sometimes form a single complex of domeshaped peaks ...
Chistyakov , Kirill V. +3 more
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The MASON HouseholdsWorld Model of Pastoral Nomad Societies [PDF]
, 2010 Computational modeling of pastoralist societies that range as nomads over diverse environmental zones poses interesting challenges beyond those posed by sedentary societies. We present HouseholdsWorld, a new agent-based model of agro-pastoralists in a natural habitat that includes deserts, grasslands, and mountains.
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla +2 more
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Gatherings of mobility and immobility: itinerant “criminal tribes” and their containment by the Salvation Army in colonial South India [PDF]
, 2014 In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility ...
Arora, Saurabh
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Social Organization of the Mongolian Nomad Community in XXI Century: Role of Family Ties
Научный диалог, 2021 The issues of kinship in the social self-organization of nomads are considered. The results of field studies in various regions of Mongolia, which unambiguously record the existence of informal family-related groups, united on the basis of, first of all,
A. D. Gombozhapov
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