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Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Important gaps remain in our understanding of the spread of farming into Europe, due partly to apparent contradictions between studies of contemporary genetic variation and ancient DNA.
Alshamali, Farida   +15 more
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
wiley   +1 more source

The State Itself as a Vulnerable Subject? Existential Resilience under International Law

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper proposes a new framework for analysis of the law governing State continuity, with particular reference to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) threatened with legal extinction as a result of rising sea‐levels. Prevailing wisdom suggests that if States were to lose their inhabitable land or permanently resident populations, their status ...
Alex Green (文浩航)
wiley   +1 more source

Reindeer Herders in Finland: Pulled to Community-based Entrepreneurship & Pushed to Individualistic Firms' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Content analysis of interviews conducted with reindeer herders - referred to as reindeer husbandry entrepreneurs, by the Reindeer Herders' Association - from two ethnic communities in Finland reveals that participants who identified themselves as ...
Dana, Leo, Riseth, Jan Age
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CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Adapting to Climate Change in Reindeer Herding: The Nation-State as Problem and Solution. [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper discusses the role of nation-states and their systems of gover- nance as sources of barriers and solutions to adaptation to climate change from the point of view of Saami reindeer herders.
Ellen Inga Turi   +5 more
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
wiley   +1 more source

The Ties That Rhyme: Duality in Symbolic and Structural Networks of Grime Music

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do birds of a feather really sing together? Musicians face two competing pressures in the pursuit of success: conforming to genre norms to meet audience expectations and distinguishing themselves to attract the attention of listeners. These opposing logics may shape how artists choose their collaborators.
Tom R. Leppard, Andrew P. Davis
wiley   +1 more source

Skilled for Whom? Immigration Policy, Racial Capitalism, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact analysis of the shortest path movement model on routing strategies for VDTNs in a rural region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Network (VDTN) appears as a particular application of the Delay-Tolerant Network (DTN) concept to transit networks. In this paper we analyze the use of a VDTN to provide asynchronous Internet access on a rural remote region ...
Farahmand, Farid   +2 more
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