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Spatiotemporal Diffusion Modeling of Global Mobilization in Social Media: The Case of 2011 Egyptian Revolution

International Journal of Communication, 2016
This study explores transnational diffusion of social movement information in social media by introducing a mathematical model. Although the literature extensively discusses social media uses in social movements, few studies have examined a ...
K. Hazel Kwon, Weiai Wayne Xu, Haiyan Wang, Jaime Chon   +3 more
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Region and globalization: The State’s issue

Estudios Fronterizos, 2001
Region, globalization and identity are the central elements in this document. To starting the interpretation of identity, I shows that the globalization process, even though is the dominant process, doesn´t make desappear the region, but it reaffirm it ...
Raúl Balbuena Bello
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Happy Spells? Constructing and Deconstructing a Private-Law Perspective on Subsidiarity [PDF]

, 2014
Syftet med denna studie är att belysa olika synsätt kring genus som finns bland tre arbetslag inom förskolans verksamhet, den syftar även till att lyfta fram olika arbetssätt kring genus som används.
Hörnell, Elin, Strandberg, Sandra
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Rural but not radical right: The rural‐urban cleavage in Norway

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional wisdom claims that rural voters are politically mobilized by right‐wing and culturally conservative forces, while urban voters are left‐leaning and have progressive cultural views. Leveraging original survey data from Norway, our work challenges this dichotomy.
Kiran R. Auerbach, Marta R. Eidheim, Anne L. Fimreite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elephants are Like Our Diamonds: Recentralizing Community Based Natural Resource Management in Botswana, 1996-2012

African Studies Quarterly, 2014
When the Botswana parliament passed a Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) policy in 2007, ten years after its implementation, the formal policy rejected some of the basic precepts of community based conservation-those who face the costs ...
Parakh Hoon
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

‘They Started School and Then English Crept in at Home’: Insights into the Influence of Forces Outside the Family Home on Family Language Policy Negotiation Within Polish Transnational Families in Ireland

Education Sciences
Amidst increased global migration and the close geographic proximity of Poland and Ireland, there exists a significant number of Polish speaking families in Ireland today.
Lorraine Connaughton-Crean, Pádraig Ó Duibhir   +1 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

The transnational lives of Finnish retirees in Torrevieja

Matkailututkimus, 2017
Decades of consumerist package tourism have encouraged Northern European retirees to engage in more self-oriented, flexible travel, and some are taking advantage of seasonal migration to the Mediterranean.
Antti Wallin
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