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CONTESTED METABOLIC NODES: Shareholding Cooperatives and Planetary Ruralization in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract China's recent shareholding cooperative (SC) reform heralds a shift from expropriation‐led rural change to a post‐expropriation regime in which the countryside is reconstituted through circulation, capitalization, and new forms of collective governance. Existing interpretations, whether framed as market‐driven de‐collectivization, state‐led re‐
Yong Zhang
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Thesis abstract This bachelor thesis will focus on the problematics of colour symbolism in the Chinese language, which assume a prominent place as part of the vocabulary.
Doležalová, Viktorie
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Rebranding the Nation: Migrant Fashion Production and the Contested Politics of ‘Made in Italy’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Prato engage with the contested meaning of the Made in Italy production label. As Chinese‐run fashion firms have become central to Italy’s fast fashion sector, their growing visibility has raised public concerns about authenticity, national identity, and the perceived erosion of ...
Yintan Fan
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article develops a cultural and relational model of political polarisation that integrates insights from currently disconnected streams of scholarship to conceive polarisation as a discursive and performative struggle over sacred meanings.
Werner Binder +3 more
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Palestine, Public Sentiment and the Limits of Omani Foreign Policy Discourse
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how expressions of solidarity with Palestine in Oman reveal transformations in state–society relations during the Gaza war of 2023–2025, a period of leadership transition and regional rupture. Drawing on elite statements, opinion columns and semi‐structured interviews, it combines framing analysis with thematic analysis ...
Sumaiya Al‐Wahaibi
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Geofinance and Fragmentation: Wholesale Central Bank Digital Currencies
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), especially wholesale ones, were initially hailed as tools for frictionless global financial flows. Paradoxically, however, they are contributing to the fragmentation of the international financial system through the emergence of minilateral blocs of ‘friendly’ jurisdictions that have established, or ...
Lucia Quaglia, Amy Verdun
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An Introduction to the Rock Art of Khaybar
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 2020 and 2024, the Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project recorded 2333 rock art panels around the oasis of Khaybar in northwest Arabia. This dataset documents changing visual expression in a previously under‐researched region. The rock art broadly follows chronological and stylistic patterns observed elsewhere in northern Arabia.
Maria Guagnin +4 more
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Heart Health Begins with Community: An Arts-Based Report on the Experiences of Heart Health in the Moosonee Community. [PDF]
CJC OpenZhao J +7 more
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American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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Land, Gendered Labor, and Empire‐Making in Central Sudan
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers an analysis of Gulf‐Arab and more specifically Emirati empire‐making in central Sudan, by focusing ethnographic attention on an Emirati‐owned farm in the Gezira region as a key site of capitalist extraction and imperial ambition.
Nisrin Elamin
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