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The philosophical anthropology of Interculturality: a vehicle for creating inclusive identities and positive peace [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This chapter illustrates how a philosophical anthropology of interculturality can be the vehicle of higher level social, political, and ethical identities.
P. Fry, Douglas, Souillac, Geneviève
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Editorial in "Fashion Practice: Design, Creative Process and the Fashion Industry" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The landscape of research in fashion has blossomed over the last decades. A marked increase in academic debate and a burgeoning number of publications have begun to map the diversity, complexity, and breadth of fashion as simultaneously a major industry ...
Black, Sandy
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Towards an Arid Eden? Boundary making, governance and benefit sharing and the political ecology of the “new commons” of Kunene Region, Northern Namibia

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2016
Over the last two decades many sub-Saharan African countries have devolved rights and obligations in rural natural resource management from state to local communities in an effort to foster social-ecological sustainability and economic development at the
Michael Bollig
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Book review: AIDS doesn’t show its face: inequality, morality, and social change in Nigeria by Daniel Jordan Smith [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Sharon Jackson finds that Daniel Jordan Smith’s AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face should draw readers from anthropology, sociology, international development, global health, social psychology, cultural studies, human geography and African studies.
Jackson, Sharon
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Revisiting the culture–social structure duality debate through the lens of personal networks

open access: yesConnections
In this article, we address a long-standing debate in social science about whether culture or social structure provides the best lens for understanding human behavior and how that scales to the level of social institutions.
Molina José Luis   +3 more
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African Nightclubs of Lisbon and Madrid as Spaces of Cultural Resistance

open access: yesOpen Cultural Studies, 2019
The main objective of this article involves describing how African nightclubs of Lisbon have become spaces for cultural resistance against certain representations of African-ness, taking Madrid as a contrasting case.
Sedano Livia Jiménez
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Review of Atheist Awakening: Secular Activism & Community in America

open access: yesSecularism and Nonreligion, 2016
Book Review of 'Atheist Awakening: Secular Activism & Community in America'.
Katherine Sissons
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A Biologist’s View of Individual Cultural Identity for the Study of Cities [PDF]

open access: yes
The behaviour of urban populations is compared with the systems directing behaviour in individuals. This is both a metaphor and a mechanistic parallel. The biological model draws upon recent developments in brain research and psychological and cultural ...
Richard Pearce
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