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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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Rumor Spreading in LiveJournal [PDF]
Online social networks have gained importance in recent years. Furthermore, there is a need for designing smart applications for social networks which take into account the behaviour of dynamical processes over these networks.
Sathe, Saket
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Gossip vs. Markov Chains, and Randomness-Efficient Rumor Spreading
, 2014 We study gossip algorithms for the rumor spreading problem which asks one node to deliver a rumor to all nodes in an unknown network, and every node is only allowed to call one neighbor in each round.
Zeyu Guo +5 more
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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Safe to Speak, Teach, and Research? Experiences of Reprisals in Danish Academia
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Liv Bjerre +6 more
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American Ethnologist, EarlyView.Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
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The Impact of Media Coverage and Emergency Strategies on the Rumor Spreading
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2018 On the basis of nonlinear dynamic model, we research the propagation of rumors after emergencies, describe the impact of media coverage and emergency strategies by government on the transmission dynamics of information, and then obtain the basic ...
Liang’an Huo, Yingying Cheng
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the experiences of children who live in skipped generation households because of parental migration. Drawing on our matched interviews with 34 children and 20 grandparents from 19 skipped generation households in rural Hunan, central China, we examine what the children wanted significant adults to know about their care ...
Rachel Murphy, Li Mi, Xiaoyan Huang
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Honour‐based violence (HBV) is a serious social problem with significant health and social consequences for affected children. Despite growing policy attention, little is known about how child protection services address HBV in practice. This study examines how child protection investigations categorized as HBV are handled by a specialized ...
Stina Lindegren, Siv‐Britt Björktomta
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Dynamic Analysis of Rumor Spreading Model Based on Three Recovery Modes
MathematicsIn this paper, an SIR rumor propagation model is established with the three recovery modes that the spreader turns into a stifler under the influence of the spreader, stifler and media nonlinear rumor-refuting mechanism.
Jingping Lu, Qinlong Wang, Wentao Huang
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