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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
wiley   +1 more source

Multiscale anthropogenic feature detection in the Argentinian Andes: satellite machine learning, UAV, and pedestrian survey. [PDF]

NPJ Herit Sci
Peters MJH, Jambajantsan A, Freire VZ, Pey L, Vaquer JM, Roberts P.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting water resources management in the Mandara Mountains. [PDF]

Heliyon
Madomguia D, Nya EL, Njomou-Ngounou EL, Gatcha-Bandjun N, Mwamila TB, Balna J, Halimassia E, Metsebo J, Letah Nzouebet WA, Tchoumbe RR, Bon AF, Gwenzi W, Noubactep C.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Monsters of finance

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract An anthropology of horror can serve as a vernacular critique of financial speculation. Drawing on fieldwork in San Pedro, Paraguay, I track horror across three registers: pombero tricksters; plata yvyguy (buried money) as a founding myth of postwar finance; and obligations binding sesame farmers to monsters, patrones, and creditors.
Caroline E. Schuster
wiley   +1 more source

Compounding social-ecological crises drive spatial mobility and land abandonment in Morocco's High Atlas. [PDF]

Ambio
Kmoch LM, Bou-Lahriss A, Ait Babahmad R, Plieninger T.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring degraded soils: The transformative impact of Fanya Juu terraces on soil characteristics in the erosion-prone Magera watershed, Southern Ethiopia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Falta FF, Fakana ST, Kassie NK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligent and automatic irrigation system based on internet of things using fuzzy control technology. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Liu X, Zhao Z, Rezaeipanah A.
europepmc   +1 more source