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Army of the vulnerable

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract Since ending conscription in 1963, Britain has fought its “small wars” with professional soldiers from deprived areas of the country, many recruited under the age of 18. During the 21st‐century war on terror, these personnel were deemed vulnerable, at heightened risk of psychosocial harms, and entitled to more protection.
Alexander Edmonds
wiley   +1 more source

Genetics of infertility and “assisted fertilization” in the Bible: The case of Abraham and his family

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deadly Lifeworlds Meet Palliative Politics: Struggle in Circulation

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper locates acute and ongoing crises of coloniality and ecology within struggles over circulation that are anchored in infrastructure. If infrastructure organises movement—including its constraint in carceral forms—then it is also a linchpin for materialising distinct regimes of motion (Nail 2020a; Marx in Motion: A New Materialist ...
Deborah Cowen
wiley   +1 more source

The Arab Spring was Critically Acclaimed: Militant Arab Cinema Conjunctures, and the Emergence of the Character‐Driven Resilience Documentary

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract In the decade since the so‐called Arab Spring first drove debates around the relationship between images and militancy, hundreds of films have documented the uprisings and their aftermath. Yet little scholarship has considered the political consequences of films made in relation to the Arab Spring or situated new works in relation to earlier ...
Mary Jirmanus Saba
wiley   +1 more source

Characterisation of Jewellery with glass and garnet inlays from the Bohemian region and Great Migration Period

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract The research focuses on jewellery finds uncovered in the region of today's Czech Republic dated to the Great Migration Period. The metals and garnet inlays detected were examined with μ‐EDXRF, whereas, for glass samples, LA‐ICP‐MS was used. The paper presented is supplemented with data concerning the technological processing of the jewellery ...
Zuzana Zlámalová Cílová   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study presents a comprehensive approach to provenancing ancient silver artefacts, introducing a novel algorithm to correct for mass‐dependent isotope fractionation. Applied to a Pb isotope database of 281 Hacksilber samples from southern Levantine hoards (1700–600 BCE) and compared with approximately 7000 galena ores from Spain to Iran ...
Francis Albarede   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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