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Modernizing peasants and 'master farmers': all-India crop competitions and the politics of progressive agriculture in early independent India [PDF]
, 2017 In the years following independence, looking toward agricultural self-sufficiency, India's national leadership sought to identify cultivators endowed with the daring, grit, and experimental character needed to actualize the promise of plenty.
Siegel, Benjamin
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fieldwork is the cornerstone of empirical research in agrarian studies. Discussion about methodological options has, however, not kept up with the innovative conceptual developments taking place within the discipline. This is particularly evident in the study of social differentiation, a key concern in agrarian scholarship. Through a review of
Patrick Illien, Helena Pérez Niño
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Diversitas Journal, 2019 Milk cattle farming is one of the livestock activities responsible for generating jobs, income and revitalization of agrarian spaces. The objective was to characterize the technological profile of bovine milk production systems in the Alagoano ...
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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La voz inconformista de Patrick Kavanagh [PDF]
Estudios Irlandeses, 2015 Patrick Kavanagh, rural and self-taught poet, stands out among the Irish poets of the early twentieth century for his critical consideration of literary and political nationalist programs.
Maximiliano Brina
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Dominance and retaliation in the informal structure of authority: a comparative study of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar [PDF]
, 2006 In post-independence democratic India several measures have been initiated in order to bring the marginalised and depressed sections of its population into the mainstream of development. While some of these measures have yielded positive results, several
Chaubey, Rakesh
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Education and Learning in Studies of Nationalism: Anderson and Weber in Focus
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars of nationalism have pointed to the importance of educational institutions for the dissemination of national identities and associated sentimental attachments, yet how nationalism is learned within these educational institutions has received little attention.
Lejla Voloder
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Studia Humanitatis, 2019 The article discusses the main problems associated with the status of women in the traditional, but gradually undergoing, ever deeper modernization of the culture of the northern outskirts of the Russian state.
Pulkin Maxim Viktorovich
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Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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