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Visible After invasion? Ukraine's representational absence and distortion in global comics before 2014. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Pidoprygora S.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

Public health diplomacy in Central Asia: a scoping review. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Joshi A, Sharma N, Jha N, Cruz J, Mukashev N, Nazarzoda K, Saliev S, Sharshenova AA, Sarria-Santamera A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Global Pesticide Complex: Infrastructure, Fragility and Frontiers of Agrarian Change

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although most pesticides have long been on the market, the political economy surrounding their production, regulation and use has undergone considerable change, spurring renewed interest in the social sciences. The global pesticide complex (GPC) is an analytical device to understand the multidimensional nature of these changes. In this special
Marion Werner, Kees Jansen, Jessie Luna, Nathalie Jas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Of Dark Arts and Dictators-Why the Russian Constitution Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts by William Partlett. [PDF]

Oxf J Leg Stud
McCallum A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Elizaveta Svilova and Soviet documentary film

, 2013
The focus of my research is Soviet documentary filmmaker, Elizaveta Svilova (1900-75), most commonly remembered, if at all, as the wife and collaborator of acclaimed Soviet film pioneer, Dziga Vertov (1896-1954).
Penfold, Christopher
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Satire and Silence Under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Utopia of Safe Air: How Soviet Research Challenged Western Air Quality Norms, 1950s-1960s. [PDF]

J Hist Med Allied Sci
Mäkiranta J.
europepmc   +1 more source

When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

Historical Perspectives on Deglobalization's Drivers, Outcomes, and Managerial Responses

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The deglobalization process experienced in the early 2020s is not without precedent. This Special Issue leverages business history as a lens to generate new insights and to uncover previously hidden complexities and nuances. Studying previous periods of deglobalization and their varying drivers, outcomes, and responses, the papers in this ...
Andrew Smith, Heidi Tworek, Marcelo Bucheli, Johann Fortwengel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source