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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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Place Marketing in Hungary: The Case of Debrecen [PDF]

, 2009
After the political transformations in East-Central Europe local authorities were forced to realise that they have to employ more active policy, and consequently, the use of place marketing became more popular.
Kozma, Gábor
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The impact of English on local languages: The case of Catalan universities

World Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with the somehow complex equilibrium of languages used in Catalonia, with a particular analysis of the role of English vis‐a‐vis the national language (Spanish) and the regional official language (Catalan). A discussion of the supremacy of standard languages over local ones in modern history, followed by an account of the ...
Enric Llurda
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Role of international sister-city partnerships in facilitating sustainable urbanisation: practices between Manchester and Wuhan

Global Sustainability
Non-technical summary To explore how city-level international partnerships can succeed, this study focuses on the sister-city relationship between Wuhan (China) and Manchester (UK), which has demonstrated strong outcomes in sustainability collaboration ...
Yameng Zhang, Bingqing Zhao, Weiwei Chen
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Salvation and Sociology in the Methodist Episcopal Deaconess Movement

, 2002
Excerpt: Rather than being an American innovation which was spread to missionary contexts abroad, the deaconess movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church began on the Methodist missionary frontiers of India and Germany in the late 19th century.
Hartley, Benjamin
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Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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China’s paradiplomacy: a pilot study of subnational relations with neighboring countries on and off the BRI

Frontiers in Political Science
IntroductionA significant amount of effort and attention has been provided to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) strategy. Frequently, the existing analyses focus on the political or economic implications of China’s engagement with its BRI partners ...
Xuejun Liu, Nicholas Thomas
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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Working‐in‐Commons in the Middle of Precarity: The Legacy of the Urban Commons Movement of South Korea in the 1970s

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
Abstract This article explores the endogenous characteristics of commons within the frameworks of precarity and commons through the urban commons movement in 1970s South Korea. During Korea's compressed capitalist transformation, rural migrants became the urban poor, occupying the lowest position in urban labour hierarchies.
Didi Kyoung‐ae Han, Hyun Bang Shin
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“This Is Legacy Cooking”: Black Women's Aesthetic Labor in Newberry County, South Carolina

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
ABSTRACT Black women in the US South have carried forward the legacy culinary and care traditions of their mothers, grandmothers, and ancestors from Africa and the African diaspora. In this paper, we extend Katherine McKittrick's concept of aesthetic labor—the “music, groove, text, poem, photo” that make Black consciousness and life possible on its own
Reagan Ross, Carrie Chennault, Shelvy Ham, Judy Sanders   +3 more
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