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Abstract This article examines the assassination of Duma representative Mikhail Gertsenshtein in July 1906 as the pivotal moment for the emergence of the concept of “right‐wing terrorism” (pravyi terrorizm) in the Russian Empire. Drawing on court documents, police files, and censorship reports, this article argues that the significance of the ...
Moritz Florin
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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Behavioral tuning of spider silk thread stiffness circumvents biomaterial trade-offs. [PDF]
Wolff JO +6 more
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ABSTRACT Understanding insect responses to global climate change involves identifying strategies used during past climate oscillations. Phylogeography offers a powerful framework to unravel how historical climatic and geological events have shaped the spatial genetic patterns of species, providing critical insights into evolutionary processes, whereas ...
Jody H. Voges +12 more
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Which web to invade? Argyrodine kleptoparasites differentiate amongst architecturally different host webs. [PDF]
Agnarsson I +10 more
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ABSTRACT This article explores how educator‐kibbutzim recruit socialist‐Zionist learning traditions to construct new forms of kinship. Bringing communities of practice theory to new kinship studies, we expand on the role of knowledge in bridging the social/biological.
Lauren Erdreich, Rotem Bar Israel
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The effect of different structural decoration geometries on vibration propagation in spider orb webs. [PDF]
Greco G +4 more
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Simmering in the Corridors: An Ethnographic Novella
ABSTRACT The ethnographic novella “Simmering in the Corridors” blends fiction and ethnography to reflect on academic life within a Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. It addresses institutional racism, colonial legacies, and power dynamics in academia.
Mara Belacchi Livi +9 more
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Triangle weaver spiders construct spring-loaded webs using a novel set of genes for exceptionally proline-rich silk. [PDF]
Casey S +6 more
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Narrating Entanglement Without Dehumanisation in Contemporary Eco‐Fiction
ABSTRACT This essay presents a comparative analysis of two contemporary works of eco‐fiction, Richard Powers's The Overstory (2018) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023). Both novels use multiperspective narration in the service of entanglement narratives, forms of storytelling that emphasise the interconnection of human and nonhuman life.
Diana Rose Newby
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