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The Life of Events: Exception and Everyday Life in Acapulco, Mexico
ABSTRACT The paper focuses on the event of ‘Ingrid‐and‐Manuel’—a Hurricane and Tropical Storm that hit Acapulco, Mexico in 2013. It traces what this event was and how it remains for people in and beyond Acapulco. It does so in the context of a place where the lines between events and everyday life are often blurred, and yet the event was still named ...
Hector Becerril +2 more
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Train Wrecks and Track Attacks: An Analysis of Attempts by Terrorists and Other Extremists to Derail Trains or Disrupt Rail Transportation [PDF]
Attempts to sabotage rails and deliberately derail passenger trains have a long history in conventional and guerrilla warfare as well as during some particularly bitter labor disputes in the past.
Butterworth, Bruce R. +1 more
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Spartan Daily, December 7, 1950 [PDF]
Volume 39, Issue 49https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/11470/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the concept of resilience as understood and operationalised by various humanitarian and climate resilience actors in Malawi. Findings revealed a fragmented understanding of resilience among stakeholders and highlight the need for participatory approaches, localised resilience assessments and context‐specific interventions ...
Zondiwe Mabilabo Jere +4 more
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“The Future Is Ancestral”: The Environmental Cuir Utopias of Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
ABSTRACT Argentinian author Gabriela Cabezón Cámara identifies as a “socio‐environmentalist and writer” and has been actively involved in the feminist movement #NiUnaMenos since 2015, alongside her growing engagement with environmental activism. She advocates for Indigenous land rights, water accessibility, and challenges offshore petroleum extraction ...
Victoria Jara
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The Stigma of Substance Use and Addiction Among Filipino Immigrants and in the Philippines. [PDF]
Alibudbud R.
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Integrating Industrial Laser Scanners for Small Vessel Operations [PDF]
The NOAA Navigation Response Teams (NRTs) perform hydrographic surveys to support nautical charting updates for 175 ports of the United States Marine Transportation System.These include the identification of bathymetric and anthropogenic features that ...
Maddock, David +5 more
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Quality time in early childhood: Eliciting young children's perspectives
ABSTRACT Objective This study employed developmentally sensitive ethnographic techniques to elicit young children's perspectives of their quality time experiences in family contexts. Background Intensive parenting ideology and social constructions of “good parenting” prioritize culturally defined quality time in which parents focus on cultivating ...
Rachel A. McGovern
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