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Racialized and Sexualized Branding in Japan's Online Eikaiwa Industry: The Objectification of Female Eastern European Teachers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how an online eikaiwa (English conversation) provider in Japan that employs only female Eastern European (particularly Ukrainian) teachers brands them through objectification. Analysis of textual and visual elements of the provider's website and related media, including videos, demonstrates that the teachers are ...
Misako Tajima
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Pan‐Europe Revisited: Inter‐War Debates and the EU's Pursuit of Geopolitical Power

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The European Union's (EU) transformation from a peace project to an assertive geopolitical actor reflects enduring tensions in integration theory dating back to the inter‐war period. This paper develops a comparative framework distinguishing territorial integration logic, which emphasises bounded political communities and collective defence ...
Kamil Zwolski
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Orientalism and Empire North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917

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Orientalism and Empire sheds new light on the little-studied Russian empire in the Caucasus by exploring the tension between national and imperial identities on the Russian frontier.
Jersild, Austin.
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Franco‐British Bilateral Diplomacy After Brexit, 2020–2025: Mending the Ties That Bind

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Brexit shook to its very core one of the European Union's (EU's) prominent partnerships, the Franco‐British bilateral relationship (FBBR), disrupting diplomatic routines and shattering interpersonal trust before circumstances changed and the relationship rapidly began to mend. In this article, we analyse the breakdown and restoration of Franco‐
Helen Drake, Pauline Schnapper
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Deadly Anchor: Gender Bias under Russian Colonization of Kazakhstan, 1898-1908 [PDF]

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We study the impact of a large-scale economic crisis on gender equality, using historical data from Kazakhstan in the late 19th – early 20th century. We focus on sex ratios (number of women per man) in Kazakh nomadic population between 1898 and 1908, in ...
Catherine Guirkinger, Gani Aldashev
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Under the Surface: Subsea Infrastructure and Everyday Geoeconomics in the European Union

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The European Union (EU) is undergoing a geoeconomic shift driven by concerns over its global position, geopolitical tensions and the need for strategic autonomy. Scholars have studied various parts of this ‘geoeconomic turn’ aiming to secure Europe's position in the world.
Lars Gjesvik, Øyvind Svendsen
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Russian Empire (1721) 1

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Notice regarding construction of ramparts. Russian Empire (Latvia).

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Private rafts. [Russian Empire]

open access: yes, 1909
In album: Views along the Mariinskii Canal and river system, Russian Empire, LOT 10332-A, no. 23.Forms part of: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress)
Prokudin-Gorskiĭ, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1863-1944, photographer.
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