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Abstract This article examines how language and environment become constitutive through the emergent environmentalism of Hemshin youth returning to Turkey's Hemshin lands from major cities. As development transforms the landscape, young Hemshins engage in “reading” their lands, encountering linguistic and material traces like stories, place names, and ...
Neşe Kaya‐Özkan
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Typhoons are among the most destructive natural phenomena, posing significant threats to human society. Therefore, accurate damage assessment is crucial for effective disaster management and sustainable development.
Liwei Zou +3 more
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ABSTRACT Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) present new opportunities to advance text‐based analyses, particularly for identifying and disambiguating geospatial information expressed as natural language text. This study explores the capabilities of an LLM to identify, classify, and spatially query geospatial ...
Majid Hojati, Rob Feick
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Ranking Georeferences for Efficient Crowdsourcing of Toponym Annotations in a Historical Corpus of Alpine Texts [PDF]
This paper presents a simple method to rank georeference candidates to optimally support the workflow of a citizen science web application for toponym annotation in historical texts. We implement the general idea of efficient crowdsourcing based on human
Meraner, Isabel +3 more
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LacusPyr, a Catalogue of Lakes and Ponds of the Pyrenees
The LacusPyr dataset provides a comprehensive, georeferenced inventory of Pyrenean lakes and ponds, integrating key geomorphological attributes that underpin limnological processes. By enabling analyses across spatial, elevation, and watershed scales, this dataset supports research on mountain lake functioning, regional metacommunities, climate ...
Jordi Catalan +8 more
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ABSTRACT Drawing on three ethnographic studies of secondary schools in England, this article makes a case for “socio‐technical audits”—a method combining technological walkthroughs with observations, workshops, and interviews—as part of ethnographic inquiry. A case example is presented to illustrate how the integration of socio‐technical audits enables
Louise Couceiro +2 more
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Learning From and Alongside Each Other: A Humanizing Approach to Team‐Based Ethnography
ABSTRACT Drawing from 7 years of team‐based ethnographic research with Hmong communities in Wisconsin, we—a multiethnic group of Asian American women—extend Paris and Winn's (2013) concept of humanizing research. We argue that relational care among research team members is central to sustaining humanizing practices.
Linda M. Pheng +3 more
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Timely and accurate geolocalization of natural disasters is crucial for effective emergency response, which is foundational for risk mitigation and resilience development.
Wenping Yin +4 more
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ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying
ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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