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Species introductions shift seed dispersal potential more than extinctions across 120 island plant-frugivore communities. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Heinen JH, Drake DR, McConkey K, Hume JP, Albert S, Ando H, Baider C, Bellingham PJ, Case SB, Chimera CG, Florens FBV, Fricke EC, Gawel AM, González-Castro A, Heleno R, Hervias-Parejo S, Hruska A, Imada CT, de Lima RF, Nogales M, Rogers HS, Rumeu B, Strasberg D, Traveset A, Valido A, Watanabe K, Wotton D, Yoshikawa T, Rahbek C, Borregaard MK.   +29 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Brokerage, bridewealth and benefits on a resource frontier in Papua New Guinea

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, we examine tensions over intermarriage and resource sharing between two groups on a Papua New Guinean resource frontier. These tensions are mediated by a ‘brokerage fix’ led by Febi clan heads responding to financial demands from their Pangia neighbours and sometime affines.
John Cox, Monica Minnegal
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the potential impact of storm surge and sea level rise on coastal archaeological heritage: A case study from Georgia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Howland MD, Thompson VD.
europepmc   +1 more source

When brokers fail, brokers proliferate! Generational change and the failure of development in remote Papua New Guinea

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent efforts to secure development by Febi and Kubo people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province reveal a patterned history of failing brokers, incomplete projects and wasted money. Within this longer trajectory, three overlapping waves of brokerage can be discerned, each emerging in response to the limitations of its predecessors.
Monica Minnegal, John Cox
wiley   +1 more source

Chemical Reactions, Drowning Swimmers, Owner's Manuals: The Power of Metaphors in Couple Therapy. [PDF]

Fam Process
Nielsen AC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Brokering Pacific labour mobility: Relation, constraint and aspiration at the interstices of supply chain capitalism

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Since 2008, temporary labour migration schemes have brought growing numbers of Pacific Islanders to work on Australian farms. The space between these workers and the farmers for whom they labour is organised through a complex ecology of brokerage relations, entailing diverse actors, processes and institutions.
Victoria Stead
wiley   +1 more source

A diffusion model-based image generation framework for underwater object detection. [PDF]

Commun Eng
Zhuang Y, Ma L, Liu J, Xian Y, Chen B, Li L, Wu C, Cui W, Liu Z.   +8 more
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Benefits, brokers and betrayal: Becoming a cultural broker in Papua New Guinea

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract How processes entailed in accessing benefits are implemented in the early stages of a resource project shapes brokerage throughout the project's lifespan. Perceptions of the efficacy of these processes and of the individuals involved often vary.
Yvonne Hani, John Cox
wiley   +1 more source

Brokerage in Oceania reconsidered: Positionality, agency, morality in a (dis)ordered world

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper introduces a special issue examining brokerage in Oceania amid intensifying geopolitical competition, resource extraction, labour mobility and shifting development regimes. Building on renewed global interest in brokerage as a set of practices, we argue that brokers in Oceania operate within—and actively reshape—conditions of ...
Monica Minnegal
wiley   +1 more source

Robert Bernasconi and the challenges of a Critical Philosophy of Race: (Un)learning to read and teach the history of moral philosophy. [PDF]

Philos Soc Crit
Décarie-Daigneault B.
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