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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
Abstract Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night‐time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred on the darker side of these, pointing to workers' precarity and vulnerability. What if we attend also to a ‘brighter side’ of the night and night
Jesse Mentha +3 more
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Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina +4 more
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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond
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 +3 more
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Journal of the New York Botanical Garden
Vols. for 1933-1941, 1945 include the Annual report of the director, 1933-1940, 1944 (previously published in its Bulletin). Indexes: Vols. 1-15, 1900-1914, issued as v. 15, no. 180; Vols. 16-30, 1915-1929, issued as v. 30, no. 360.
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Transformation of the Agrarian Landscape and Hope in the Central Kalimantan Peatlands
ABSTRACT In Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, agrarian state programs and corporate strategies seek to transform indigenous Ngaju Dayak into sedentary farmers. Focusing on the notion of transformation, the paper traces whether and how rural people can engage in struggles against structural injustices.
Anu Lounela
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ABSTRACT The increasingly close integration of analytical techniques in the study of Greek and Roman wall paintings has shown that Egyptian blue was a common pigment, widely documented in the production of blue and greenish hues in ancient painted production.
Simone Dilaria +5 more
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Deforestation and resource disputes in Papua New Guinea
Abstract Disputes over land and other resources are common in poor areas of Asia and the Pacific, where common pool resources matter for livelihoods, property rights are poorly defined, and state capacity for dispute resolution is low. For example, in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the subject of the current study, one‐quarter of households experience land ...
John Gibson
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