Results 201 to 210 of about 490,972 (290)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley +1 more source
The impact of material hardship severity and frequency on health outcomes: Evidence from New York City. [PDF]
PLoS OneMemmott T.
europepmc +1 more source
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley +1 more source
Resource abundance: Blessing or curse? Comparative analyses of point and diffuse resources. [PDF]
HeliyonDinga GD, Mama N, Achuo ED.
europepmc +1 more source
Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley +1 more source
Leveraging bond dissociation kinetics to tune shear-thickening behavior in dynamic covalent tetra-PEG hydrogels. [PDF]
Sci AdvCrowell AD +6 more
europepmc +1 more source
THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley +1 more source
Excessive leaf oil modulates the plant abiotic stress response via reduced stomatal aperture in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum). [PDF]
Plant JMurphy KM +13 more
europepmc +1 more source
MAINTAINING RENTAL HOUSING AS AN ASSET: Exploring Institutional Investors in Sweden’s Rental Market
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Institutional investors have asserted significant power over rental markets across the transatlantic. However, their stronghold has been contested after rising interest rates in 2022. In this article I address the situated dimensions of the assetization of the built environment by examining the establishment of residential property investors ...
Jennie Gustafsson
wiley +1 more source
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender +2 more
wiley +1 more source