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World-Ecological Literature and the Animal Question
TRANS-, 2021 In recent years, the Marxist method of world-literary theory has given birth to world-ecological literary criticism, a practice of materialist comparativism that analyses how literary texts register the environmental crises of capitalist modernity. Although its practitioners have penned incisive essays on literary engagements with the extraction and ...
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Tributary World-Ecologies, Part I
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2022 This essay, in two parts, argues for the centrality of the world-ecology perspective for theorizing the relations, dynamics, and crises of the High Medieval Worlds. Commercialization Theorists view the High Middle Ages as a period of early capitalism, while classical Marxist theorists conceive it as a continuation of feudalism.
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Microbial colonization plays a direct role in host health. Understanding the ecology of the resident microbial community for a given host species is thus an important step for detecting population vulnerabilities like disease.
Sage D. Rohrer +3 more
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BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Background The extant members of the Asian rhinos have experienced severe population and range declines since Pleistocene through a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors.
Tista Ghosh +5 more
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Producing Cheap Food and Labour: Migrations and Agriculture in the Capitalistic World-Ecology
Social Change Review, 2016 Through the perspective of world-ecology, one of the most recent approaches in international relations, we aim to analyse global capitalism as an ecological project based on the appropriation of human and extra-human nature oriented to support capital ...
Gerbeau Yoan Molinero, Avallone Gennaro
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Precarity in the Capitalocene:
Crossings, 2023 This paper, mapping the trajectory of migrant workers’ lives in Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island, locates precarity in the nexus of capitalism and climate change and identifies the latter as a new determinant of precarity.
S.A.M. Raihanur Rahman
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“GREENING” THE CRITICAL THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS WITH THE CONCEPT OF WORLD-ECOLOGY
Torun International Studies, 2019 The article signals the need for a deepened theoretical analysis of environmental issues in International Relations studies. It initializes the idea of “Greening” the Critical Theory of International Relations with critical concepts from other sciences ...
Piotr Walewicz
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A Critique of the Definitions of Climate and Environmental Migration: Toward a Political Ecology of Migration [PDF]
REMHU: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade HumanaThis article analyses the concept of environmental and climate migrations, uncovering inherent complexities and contradictions within their official definitions.
Gennaro Avallone
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Malaria in Eswatini, 2012–2019: a case study of the elimination effort
Malaria Journal, 2021 Eswatini was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to pass a National Malaria Elimination Policy in 2011, and later set a target for elimination by the year 2020.
Theresia Estomih Nkya +8 more
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Ecology of the digital world of Wikipedia
Scientific Reports, 2021 Wikipedia, a paradigmatic example of online knowledge space is organized in a collaborative, bottom-up way with voluntary contributions, yet it maintains a level of reliability comparable to that of traditional encyclopedias.
Fumiko Ogushi +3 more
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