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Rethinking Transnational Places as Migratory Ecotones

Population, Space and Place, Volume 31, Issue 4, May 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper revisits the concept of ecotone to shed a different light on migratory spaces. The notion of ecotone was first applied for the study of the contact zones between ecological systems. Over the last two decades, it has been used by scholars of postcolonial literature for the analysis of spaces of cultural interactions.
Thomas Lacroix, Judith Misrahi‐Barak
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Working in the Space Between

PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 2009
All of the contributors to this special issue have reflected on the stakes involved in negotiating differences in language and culture. In their research and professional practice they inhabit the ‘space between’: the space between languages, the space ...
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Vera Mackie
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Thinking Translation as Cultural Contact: The Conceptual Potential of “Transculturación”

Mutatis Mutandis, 2008
"Transculturation" has been a recurrent notion in Latin American cultural analysis, particularly from the second half of the XXth century. The term, coined by the Cuban scholar Fernando Ortiz, has been taken up by critics such as Ángel Rama and, more ...
María Constanza Guzmán
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Remanentes socio-históricos y culturales de la esclavitud urbana en el centro Histórico La Habana Vieja

Comparative Cultural Studies, 2018
Transatlantic slavery as a process has been stereotyped in many bibliographies emphasizing plantation slavery. However, urban slavery and its characteristics are always overlapping “under the city’s comfort” that the owners could offer.
Inaury Portuondo Cárdenas
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Intra‐Asian Creativity in Hong Kong Education and Activism

The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 59, Issue 1, March 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay draws on empirical research from two studies examining creativity, activism, and education in Hong Kong. We use a decolonizing and deimperializing approach to centering creativity as a lever for social change, and demonstrate the ways in which the specifics of culture, region, time, and place uniquely produce forms of creativity, as
Daniel X. Harris, Kelly Ka‐Lai Chan
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Entre as vilas e os sertões: trânsitos indígenas e transculturações nas fronteirasdo Espírito Santo (1798-1840)

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2011
Among the villages and backlands: indigenous transits and transculturation in the frontiers of Espirito Santo (1798 - 1840)This paper discusses the moulding of the social life in the zones of contact, electing as a reflection problem the transit of the ...
Vânia Maria Losada Moreira
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Widows, Violence and Death: The Construction of Imperial Identity and Memory by Women in Mourning across British India, 1857–1926

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 1, Page 167-182, March 2025.
Abstract This article examines the work of British widows in the construction of their husbands’ memory following their violent deaths in British India, during the nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries. Exploring the collections of a military, missionary and Indian Civil Service widow, it suggests that a specifically feminised culture of mourning ...
Ellen Smith
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Chuvash Ethnoblogging as a Communicative Phenomenon: Bilingual and Transcultural Aspects

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
The paper is devoted to identifying the distinctive communicative behavior of Chuvash ethnically oriented bloggers, prominent actors in the modern media space who spread Chuvash ethnocultural content on their social media pages and build positioning ...
Artem D. Gavrilov
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Os exílios dos intelectuais brasileiros e chilenos, na França, durante as ditaduras militares : uma história cruzada

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2007
Applying the concept of « Histoire croisée », this text deals with the French exile of Brazilian and Chilean intellectuals during the respective military dictatorships in their countries.
Helenice Rodrigues da Silva
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Cultural multicentrality, a resistance strategy of the Afro-Cuban in “West Indies Ltd.” and the Cameroonian migrant in Spain in Mam’enying! (Cosas de la vida)

Poligramas, 2020
The purpose of this work is to highlight the strategy proposed by Nicolás Guillén and Inongo-vi-Makomè to help the Afro-Cuban and the Cameroonian migrant in Spain to face the risk of cultural phagocytosis. This strategy of resistance consists of cultural
Wilfried MVONDO
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