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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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Curating Architecture and the City: Recent Australian Pavilions

European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2020
In recent decades, pavilions have emerged as a popular vehicle for exhibitions of architecture: these often spectacular structures and immersive environments becoming both the object and subject of display. Yet, despite their ubiquity, and the increasing
Susan Holden, Ashley Paine
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Le sanatorium familial de Montigny-en-Ostrevent (Nord) : échec d’une tentative de création d’un établissement antituberculeux modèle, de caractère national

In Situ, 2005
The sanatorium of Montigny-en-Ostrevent was built between 1904 and 1905 and is comprised of an ensemble of small pavilions set in a park. The pavilions were destined not only for people suffering from tuberculosis but also for the healthy members of ...
Pierre-Louis Laget
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Negotiations Under Scrutiny: Are UNFCCC COPs Up To the Challenge?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) plays a crucial role in global efforts to tackle the climate crisis. At annual Conferences of the Parties (COPs) and intersessional meetings, the international community gathers to advance climate policy and action.
Franziska Petri, Jan Karlas
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Repenser l'auditeur « idéal » : le rôle sous‐estimé de l'équité, de la diversité et de l'inclusion dans le recrutement et la rétention en cabinet comptable Rethinking the “Ideal” Auditor: The Underestimated Role of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Recruitment and Retention at Accounting Firms

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
RÉSUMÉ Tant au Canada qu'à l'international, les cabinets comptables éprouvent des difficultés à recruter et à retenir leur personnel. Un facteur moins souvent mis de l'avant, mais susceptible d'expliquer ces enjeux et de contribuer à leur résolution, concerne l'intégration des considérations liées à l'équité, à la diversité et à l'inclusion (EDI) dans ...
Oriane Couchoux, Laurence Daoust
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L'envolée épistémique de la recherche comptable en économie financière : une étude historique sur la conception de l'utilité de la comptabilité* The Epistemic Rise of Accounting Research in Financial Economics: A Historical Study on the Conception of the Usefulness of Accounting

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
RÉSUMÉ L'étude publiée par Ball et Brown en 1968 (ci‐après « BB68 ») est principalement reconnue pour son affirmation selon laquelle la comptabilité de l'époque était utile pour les investisseurs, s'inscrivant alors en contradiction avec la littérature comptable normative faisant office d'autorité. Or, une telle affirmation n'allait pas de soi.
Pier‐Luc Lajoie, Yves Gendron
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A drag on the ticket? Estimating top‐of‐the‐ticket effects on down‐ballot races

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Campaign staff, journalists, and political scientists commonly attribute the poor performances of a party's down‐ballot candidates to low‐quality or extreme top‐of‐the‐ticket candidates, but empirical evidence on this conventional wisdom is scant. We estimate the effect of candidate quality and ideology in gubernatorial and U.S.
Kevin DeLuca, Daniel J. Moskowitz, Benjamin Schneer   +2 more
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