The Anthropocene and the End of Nuclear Disaster: Normalizing the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article places the concept of disaster in critical dialogue with that of the Anthropocene, which introduces new imaginaries that negatively affect the governance of crises like nuclear accidents. I argue that tropes surrounding the Anthropocene can depict certain events as apocalyptic calamities while also portraying other events as mere “
Maxime Polleri
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The reasons of creation of the Eurasian Economic Union: economics or politics?
Studia Humanitatis, 2015 The article considers creation of the Eurasian economic Union. It is shown that Russia is the main provider of integration in the post-Soviet space. The author identifies several reasons for the establishment of the Eurasian economic Union.
Mukhametov Ruslan Salikhovich
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Four Questions for Ethnographers Under Trumpian Authoritarianism
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines evolving challenges and ethical dilemmas facing ethnographers working under intensifying authoritarianism in the United States. Because very little of what the United States is experiencing is new, my work here is primarily curatorial in nature, drawing upon the lessons offered by scholars across disciplines in the United
Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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Trauma, Testimony and Lower Secondary Holocaust Education in Rywka Lipszyc's and Otto Wolf's Diaries
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Holocaust‐related trauma is represented in two diaries written by Jewish adolescents during the Second World War: Rywka Lipszyc's diary and Otto Wolf's diary. The article combines a thematically guided close reading of the diaries with a didactic discussion of their possible use in lower secondary literary education ...
Milan Mašát
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Visible After invasion? Ukraine's representational absence and distortion in global comics before 2014. [PDF]
Open Res EurPidoprygora S.
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Racialized ethnic boundary-making in multilingual Kazakhstan: from silent to recognitional tolerance. [PDF]
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Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the European Quality of Government Index across 183 NUTS‐2 regions (2010–2024), this paper documents that education improves institutional quality in Western Europe but not in postsocialist regions. Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition reveals that 77 percent of the West–East institutional gap reflects different returns to education, not ...
Nikolaos Tzivanakis
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Knowledge hegemony and epistemic reclamation in Central Asian higher education: a community case study of Eastern scholastic heritage integration, sociological field dynamics, and the conditions for decolonizing economic reasoning across STEM and social science disciplines in Uzbekistan. [PDF]
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