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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
wiley   +1 more source

Reification through Perceptual Grouping

open access: yes, 2012
Meier M, Haschke R, Ritter H. Reification through Perceptual Grouping. In: 2012 12th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2012).
Meier, Martin   +2 more
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Is tolerance of faith helpful in English school policy? Reification, complexity and values education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Government policies for teachers and schools in England promote values including tolerance of faiths and beliefs alongside law keeping, democracy and respect.
Bowie, R. A., Robert Bowie
core   +1 more source

Disruptive Innovation and the Idea of Technology

open access: yesNovation, 2019
From its obscure origins in management theory, disruptive innovation has become one of the concepts used to describe how networked digital technologies and platforms transform industries and institutions.
Darryl Cressman
doaj   +1 more source

‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

Reification and the Refugee: Using a Counterposing Dialogical Analysis to Unlock a Frozen Category

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology, 2019
Thousands of individuals each year seek refugee status and the question of who can be accepted requires politicians within democracies to seek a public mandate.
Kesi Mahendran   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source

DO YOU SEE WHAT I HEAR? A VANTAGE POINT PREFERENCE AND VISUAL DOMINANCE IN A TIME-SPACE SYNAESTHETE

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
Time-space synaesthetes ‘see’ time units organized in a spatial form. While the structure might be invariant for most synaesthetes, the perspective by which some view their calendar is somewhat flexible.
Michelle eJarick   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Evolving temporal conceptual schemas: the reification case (extended version)

open access: yes, 2000
In this report we study temporal conceptual schema evolutions related to reification, a typical and complex modeling construct. Various kinds of reification are considered. Using a previously defined framework, we specify, only at conceptual level (and
López, J   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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