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"Everyday Life in the "Tourist Zone" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article makes a case for the everyday while on tour and argues that the ability to continue with everyday routines and social relationships, while at the same time moving through and staying in liminal or atypical zones of tourist locales, is a key ...
Holloway, David   +3 more
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Health for All by the Year 2000: what about the nomads?

open access: yes, 1999
Developing countries with large nomadic populations have found it difficult to cater for itinerant people in their healthcare strategies. Some have tried to settle nomads, others to bring in health workers from outside the nomadic community, both costly ...
Abu Omar, Mayeh, Omar, Muhiadin
core   +1 more source

Rulers on the road: Itinerant rule in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Itinerant rule, rule exercised through traveling, was a common yet insufficiently researched, premodern form of governance. Studying the determinants of ruler itineraries in the Holy Roman Empire, AD 919–1519, we argue that rulers' visits targeted “marginal” elites.
Carl Müller‐Crepon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glocalizations of digital nomads [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The preferences and semiotic roots of digital nomads are considered, and the current state of globalization processes is characterized. Glocalization is viewed as a new paradigm of architecture that increases the dynamics of mobility and universality in ...
Aigul Nasirdinova
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Digital nomads: Croatian experience

open access: yes, 2023
Digital nomads are entrepreneurs or employees who almost exclusively use digital technologies to perform their work. They are addicted to the Internet, work on the road and live in multiple locations around the world.
Malbašić, Anto   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

English Language Education in Rural Contexts: Examining Students’ Perceptions and Motivation Through a Contextually Grounded Extracurricular Program

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted this case study in Türkiye to examine how a contextually grounded extracurricular program shaped rural students’ perceptions of English and their motivation to learn and use the language. Recognizing motivation as an equity‐related concern in rural contexts, where students may have limited opportunities to perceive the local ...
Emrullah Yasin Çiftçi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nomadic pastoralism in the Aru basin of Tibet's Chang Tang

open access: yesRangifer, 2004
Nomadic pastoralists live at the northern extent of human habitation within the ca. 5000 m elevation Aru basin, in the nortwestern part of the Chang Tang Nature Preserve, Tibet.
Marius W. Næss   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Roma Unbelonging: Racialisation and the EU Strategic Frameworks for Roma

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The article sets out to examine how European Union (EU) programmes for Roma inclusion and EU member states' implementation strategies suffer from unacknowledged racism and normative whiteness. Our argument is that this lack of progress needs to be examined alongside ideas and imaginations of belonging (legal and civic).
Andreja Zevnik, Andrew Russell
wiley   +1 more source

Dormancy and Revitalization: The fate of ethnobotanical knowledge of camel forage among Sahrawi nomads and refugees of Western Sahara [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Knowledge about forage is fundamental to the survival of pastoral populations around the world. In this paper, we address the knowledge of camel forage of Sahrawi nomads and refugees of Western Sahara.
Puri, Rajindra K.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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