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Heritage, crisis, and community crime prevention in Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Following Nepal's 2015 earthquake there was speculation that sacred art would be looted from the ruins of severely damaged temples due to breakdown in formal security.
Mackenzie, Simon, Yates, Donna
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Civilising pedagogies: An ethnography of instructional and regulative discourses in government schools in Delhi, India

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing Sacred Sites as a Form of Collective Memory: The Sacrificial Stone on Toomemägi Hill in Tartu

open access: yesYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
Sacred natural sites retained their relevance in Estonian culture during and after the shift from mainly oral to mainly literary culture. However, the framework for conceptualising sacred natural sites has changed.
Ott Heinapuu
doaj   +1 more source

We Have Come Back Home: The Spanish-Moroccan Community, Collective Memory, and Sacred Spaces in Contemporary Spain

open access: yesReligions, 2019
This paper examines the role of Islamic sacred spaces in Spanish-Moroccan identity negotiations in contemporary Madrid, Spain. In doing so, I explore how these sacred sites produce diverse meanings and practices that resist the Spanish states hegemonic ...
Anwar Ouassini
doaj   +1 more source

Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Mining: An Integrated Institutional and Agency Theory Perspective

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mining is one of the foundations of economic development but has historically been associated with severe socioenvironmental impacts, such as ecosystem degradation, displacement of traditional communities, and large‐scale disasters. In this context, corporate social responsibility (CSR) plays a central role as a mechanism for legitimizing ...
Felipe Moura Oliveira   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Standing Rock [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The documentary film Standing Rock is the culmination of a long-term project exploring contemporary Native American life and the continuing oppression Native peoples face in American society today.
Hoeckner, Markus
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Contextual Effects of National Identity on Willingness to Fight: A Multilevel Analysis Using the World Values Survey

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT National identity is widely assumed to be an important basis for individuals’ willingness to fight for their country; yet, most previous research has focused on individual‐level identity, with limited attention to collective‐level processes.
Kengo Nawata
wiley   +1 more source

Culture and parks: incorporating cultural ecosystem services into conservation in the Tibetan region of Southwest China

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2021
In China, along with other countries in the Global South, the number of national parks is rapidly increasing. The primary objectives of this increase are to protect global biodiversity and ecosystem services. These national parks are often established in
Jun He, Na Guo
doaj   +1 more source

Studi Implementasi Konsep Ruang Heterotopia pada Interior Gereja Katolik Tritunggal Mahakudus Tuka-dalung Bali [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Heterotopias space, according to Michel Foucoult, is an unrealistic space or dimension in a realistic one. These sites are very dynamic and can be changed by even the smallest turn of events or time.
Jong, S. D. (Sherly)   +1 more
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