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Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim, Jean‐Patrick Villeneuve   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King, Martin R. McAinsh, Michael R. Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Online deviance in post-Soviet space: Victimisation, perceptions and social attitudes amongst young people, an Armenian case study

Digital Geography and Society
This paper presents a survey-based case study of the experiences and perceptions of, and attitudes towards, various forms of online deviance amongst a largely female, educated sample of young people drawn predominantly from the Armenian capital city of ...
Tim Hall, Ulrike Ziemer
doaj   +1 more source

The Pubs оf Yerevan аs Spaces оf Post-Soviet Transformation

Banber Erevani Hamalsarani. Sots'iologia, 2020
The article describes a study conducted in Yerevan (Armenia) of pubs as a specific urban space formed in the post-Soviet period. The aim of the study was to identify the codes of the post-Soviet transformation.
Lilit Babayan
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Soviet Union's Legacy in Laws, Institutions and Practice of Human Rights in The Republic of Azerbaijan

, 2022
This chapter explores how the Soviet Union’s legacy norms and legislative practices affected the reconstruction of Azerbaijan’s legislation and institutions, and the practice of human rights from a legal perspective, from the dissolution of the Soviet ...
Makili-Aliyev, Kamal,, Kamal Makili-Aliyev   +1 more
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From Flybys to Sample Return: A Review of Space Probes and Robotic Sampling Technologies for Small Bodies

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a crucial puzzle piece of deep space exploration, exploring small bodies can provide significant scientific insights and valuable mineral resources. Unlike missions to the Moon and Mars, small‐body missions pose distinct technical challenges, including communication delays, weak gravity, and uncertain environments. This paper reviews a full
Xin Zhang, Hao Zhou, Dalin Zhou, Zhaojie Ju   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“This Is Who I Would Become”: Russian Jewish Immigrants and Their Encounters with Chabad-Lubavitch in the Greater Toronto Area

Canadian Jewish Studies, 2020
Since the early 1970s, the Chabad Lubavitch movement has served as an important setting for religious, social, and cultural activity among Russian-speaking Jewish migrants to Canada and the United States.
Joshua Tapper
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The clashing of in situ and pre‐cast technologies—Western trends and local traditions in concrete engineering shaping shell construction in 20th‐century Hungary

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract After a blossoming pre‐World War II (WWII) period, the concrete construction industry in then‐socialist Hungary existed in a relative isolation from the Western World during the mid‐20th century. In this paper, we focus on the body of work of one of the then newly established state‐owned design offices, IPARTERV, to show how the isolation ...
Orsolya Gáspár, Péter Haba
wiley   +1 more source

Majorities and minorities in the Post-Soviet space: Continuity and change

, 2018
The concepts of ‘majority’ and ‘minority’ are challenging terms to define in a clear and precise manner, especially in the unique environments of post-Soviet space.
Prina, Federica, Berdiqulov, Aziz
core  

Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz, Leslie DeChurch, Noshir Contractor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source