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“Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: The Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during the Vietnam War
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.For the first half of the twentieth century, Australia maintained a firm policy of non‐repatriation. Military personnel who died overseas were buried in vast military cemeteries administered by the Imperial (later Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. In 1966, however, the Australian government decreed that Australia's war dead could be repatriated, at ...
Kristen Alexander, Kate Ariotti
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Swamped: On Depression and Vision
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT “Swamped” cracks open my experience of depression by exploring how a specific place—a swamp—acted on me to bring social and emotional injuries, but also modes of seeing that ultimately moved me out of the depression, to the fore. In writing from this specific place, I build on moments in which something—a desire for beauty, the luminosity of ...
Petra Rethmann
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In a city “Quiet Like a Ghost”
Anthropology and Humanism, EarlyView.Abstract This flash ethnography reflects back on my first interview carried out at the start of a new ethnographic project. I recount the power of sound as an entry point into a refugee's experience as a newcomer in the urban Canadian prairies, as an Ethiopian woman's story about the ways that she heard the city revealed the ghostly quiet that bore ...
Susan Frohlick
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Antipode, EarlyView.Abstract As the world continues to grapple with severe climate change impacts over the past decade, states and international organisations are committing to ambitious policies/projects to build “resilience” while scaling up development efforts. At a critical juncture where questions of political power and knowledge production become salient, this paper
Clement Amponsah
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Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.Abstract We introduce a fast and invertible approximation for fusion plasma simulation data represented as 2D planar meshes with connectivities approximating magnetic field lines along the toroidal dimension in deformed 3D toroidal spaces. Scientific variables (e.g., density and temperature) in these fusion data are interpolated following a complex ...
Congrong Ren +6 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on young people's perspectives on COVID‐19 remains limited. This qualitative serial picture analysis of Swedish children's drawings, predominately from spring 2020 (N = 169), aimed to explore their views and meaning‐making processes. The focus was on the interconnections of two global crises in the drawings–pandemic and environmental ...
Andrea Kleeberg‐Niepage +5 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The significance of walkability in creating sustainable and livable cities cannot be overstated. However, the majority of cities in Turkey still struggle to meet the needs of vulnerable populations, particularly parents with children aged 0–6, in terms of walkability.
Hatice Cobankaya +3 more
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Walking and Perceptions of Danger in Various Cities
City &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Taking inspiration from Mauss' classic idea of walking as one of many “techniques of the body,” this essay reflects on how perceptions of danger shape how one walks in various cities. I draw on my own research on the limits and possibilities of quantified walking as well as on urban experiences I have had in my life.
Anne Meneley
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Use of community characteristics to predict hunting and game harvests in western Amazonian forests
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Wild game harvesting in Amazonia provides rural residents with protein and cash income but can threaten wildlife populations and forest ecosystem functions. As yet, the socioeconomic and environmental drivers that shape hunter livelihoods remain poorly understood.
Daniel Zayonc +4 more
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