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Pandemic, paternalism, and the (im)possibilities of citizenship in China
Abstract How did Chinese citizens imagine their political subjectivity under the zero‐COVID regime? Our patchwork netnography of social media discussions (2020–22) analyzes how China's pandemic governance generalized and intensified “biopolitical paternalism”—a mode of rule that fused security, care, and economic rationality under the figure of a ...
Zhiying Ma, Yaochu Bi, Naiyu Jiang
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Modern Slavery Knowledge in the Sri Lankan Tea Industry: A Case Study
ABSTRACT This paper explores the state of knowledge about modern slavery and its removal in the high‐risk Sri Lankan tea industry and the way Sri Lanka can move toward elimination of the practice. Primary evidence gathered through a survey of participants in the tea supply chain in Sri Lanka reveals a perceived low level of understanding of modern ...
Katherine Leanne Christ +3 more
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Slavic languages in contact, 10 : “Altaic” loanwords in Proto-Slavic : a contribution to the debate [PDF]
A discussion of the problem of “Altaic” influence on Proto-Slavic is the main focus of this paper. In its first part, chronological and terminological questions are presented; the second part is devoted to etymologies (*baranъ ‘ram’, *koza ‘goat ...
Stachowski, Marek
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Student Research and Pedagogy in New Religious Studies: Perils, Paradoxes, and Publication
ABSTRACT This article addresses the issue of involving students in field research, and the potential risks as well as the rewards of this pedagogy, particularly for researchers in the field of New Religious Studies. Real life examples of some of the unexpected challenges of field research, the “risks” faced by researchers, students, as well as members ...
Susan Jean Palmer
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THE HISTORICAL TRACES OF ANCIENT SUMERIAN LANGUAGE IN DIALECT LEXIS OF AZERBAIJAN AND TURKISH LANGUAGE [PDF]
National affiliation of ancient Sumerian language is one of problematic problems create serious conflict in the world linguistics. These are the serious fact putan end to conflicts modern Turkic languages ancient Sumerian and dialect of the comparative ...
Galiba Hajiyeva
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ABSTRACT Accurate reporting on the sustainability of business value propositions must be supported by reliable data sources and sound methodologies such as life cycle assessment (LCA). Showing commitment to more responsible activity without quantifying business impacts, or quantifying them only partially, could fall into greenwashing practices.
Marco Ruggeri +3 more
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(Im)mobile intimacies: Commodities and marriage at the crossroads of Asia
Abstract This article follows traders and entrepreneurs that live and work between Kyrgyzstan and China's northwestern region of Xinjiang. Looking specifically at Islamic marriage and business partnerships forged between persecuted Uyghurs and their Uzbek partners, it argues that commodity‐mediated forms of transnational intimacy create spaces of ...
Grace H. Zhou
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Australia's U‐Turn on Chinese Investment: A Neoclassical Realist Perspective
The late 2010s saw a rise in restrictive foreign direct investment (FDI) policies, especially in developed nations. This research uses Australia's 2018 regulation as a case study to explore the political drivers behind the trend. Drawing on a neoclassical realist (NCR) framework, it focuses on the threat perceptions of the foreign policy executive ...
Rei Koga
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Retrospective facial recognition (RFR) marks a step change in police surveillance capability that has received surprisingly little attention to‐date. As the legal issues surrounding RFR are uncertain, and as legal challenge is likely, this article makes four key contributions. First, the surveillance capability made possible by RFR is set out.
Daragh Murray
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Vowel harmony decay in Old Norwegian [PDF]
Vowel harmony involves the systematic correspondence between vowels in some domain for some phonological feature. Though harmony represents one of the most natural and diachronically robust phonological phenomena that occurs in human language, how and ...
Sandstedt, Jade J.
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