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Between privileges and precariousness: Remaking whiteness in China's teaching English as a second language industry. [PDF]
Am Anthropol, 2022 Abstract This research examines the multiple and contradictory racialization of white identities in China's booming ESL (English as a second language) industry. China represents a new geography of whiteness studies beyond Euro‐America due to the transformation of corporeal whiteness into a minority identity as a result of international migration.
Lan S.
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An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 5, Page 1445-1456, October 2023., 2023 Abstract To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social ...
Sonia Graham +17 more
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Islands, remoteness and effective policy making: Aotearoa New Zealand during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Regional Science Policy &Practice, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 682-704, April 2023., 2023 Abstract Aotearoa New Zealand has been identified, by several measures, as being one of a few developed countries that have weathered the COVID‐19 pandemic in the best possible way. This outcome is generally attributed to strict but effective public health measures that included – besides very high vaccination rates – national and regional lockdowns ...
Patrick Barrett, Jacques Poot
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 564-574, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Journal of Regional Science, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 913-937, September 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper performs a meta‐regression analysis to derive the role of techniques, data and variable's definition on the effect of the labor‐market determinants on interregional migration. We use Spain as a case of study, a country with heterogeneous and even counterintuitive behavior of internal migration flows to its labor‐market drivers.
Maximiliano Alvarez, Vicente Royuela
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How percentage‐protected targets can support positive biodiversity outcomes
Conservation Biology, Volume 36, Issue 4, August 2022., 2022 Abstract Global targets for the percentage area of land protected, such as 30% by 2030, have gained increasing prominence, but both their scientific basis and likely effectiveness have been questioned. As with emissions‐reduction targets based on desired climate outcomes, percentage‐protected targets combine values and science by estimating the area ...
Carlos Carroll, Reed F. Noss
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Amplifying the Archive: Methodological Plurality and Geographies of the Black Atlantic
Antipode, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 1297-1319, July 2022., 2022 Abstract First published in 2001, Judith Carney’s Black Rice drew on a complex methodology to argue that enslaved Africans, despite the brutal oppression of bondage, made fundamental intellectual and cultural contributions to agricultural landscapes and economies in the Americas.
Case Watkins, Judith A. Carney
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Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) at risk in western Mexico
Biotropica, Volume 54, Issue 4, Page 829-838, July 2022., 2022 We found a total of 14 stingless bee species, including two new records for the region. We identified three types of bee assemblages: one in hot lowland climates with tropical dry forest vegetation, one in temperate highland climates with mixed oak‐pine forest vegetation, and one in the warm ecotone with mixed subdeciduous forest vegetation between the
Alejandro Reyes‐Gonzalez +4 more
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A Cross‐Cutting Approach for Relating Anthropocene, Environmental Injustice and Sacrifice Zones
Earth's Future, Volume 10, Issue 4, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The Anthropocene is an uneven phenomenon. Accelerated shifts in the functioning of the Earth System are mainly driven by the production and consumption of wealthy economies. Social, environmental and health costs of such industrialization, however, bear on low‐income communities inhabiting severely degraded territories by polluting activities (
Eugenia M. Gayo +12 more
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Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 22-41, March 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This paper looks from a gender perspective at the elusive figure, complex personality and myth of Francisco de Miranda, enlightened traveller and Precursor of Latin American independence. By analysing Miranda's personal archive as his own carefully crafted creation, it pursues three closely connected issues insufficiently interpreted in ...
Mónica Bolufer
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