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Fertilizing Methods and Nutrient Balance at the End of Traditional Organic Agriculture in the Mediterranean Bioregion: Catalonia (Spain) in the 1860s

submitted by YairGonz 2 days ago

By reconstructing the nutrient balance of a Catalan village circa 1861–65 we examine the sustainability of organic agricultural systems in the northwest Mediterranean bioregion prior to the green...

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Unexpected Consequences: Wildlife Conservation and Territorial Conflict in Northern Kenya

submitted by menhctyhoe 2 days ago

This article is concerned with the implementation of community-based conservancies (CBC) in conflict-ridden pastoralist areas of northern Kenya and whether the creation of protected areas can facil...

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Wildmeat or Bushmeat? Subsistence Hunting and Commercial Harvesting in Papua (West New Guinea), Indonesia

submitted by 152288 2 days ago

It is well known that wild game provides a significant proportion of the dietary protein of the indigenous people of the eastern half of New Guinea (PNG), but almost nothing is known of its importa...

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Comparing regional organisations in global multilateral institutions: ASEAN, the EU and the UN

submitted by VictBennet 2 days ago

Structural change brought about by the end of the Cold War and accelerated globalisation have transformed the global environment. A global governance complex is emerging, characterised by an ever-g...

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Changing definitions of Asia

submitted by TannerCor 2 days ago

The meaning of Asia has changed drastically during the millennia the concept has been in use. Its usage was established in Greek literature 2,500 years ago as a geographic reference to lands inhabi...

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China, Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: blessing or curse for new regionalism in Central Asia?

submitted by kotchin212 2 days ago

This paper discusses China and Russia and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Organisation (SCO), a Eurasian regional organisation established in 2001 and consisting of China, Russia and the four...

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Interregional relations and legitimacy in global governance: the EU in ASEM

submitted by mahon 2 days ago

This article explores the ramifications of the European Union’s (EU) internal legitimacy debate for its external relations. It applies the Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) as a case study to examine ...

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The EU’s Asia: renegotiating boundaries, renegotiating norms

submitted by baby 2 days ago

The global financial crisis and the shift of economic strength to a rising Asia have ushered in European introspection and allusions to the decline of the European Union (EU). The EU’s ambitions ...

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Dead on arrival: normative EU policy towards China

submitted by moysen 2 days ago

The European Union’s (EU) normative roles in global politics have in recent years been a hotly debated topic. The EU promotes its political values outside of the Union, especially with regard to ...

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The European Union, Burma/Myanmar and ASEAN: A challenge to European norms and values or a new opportunity?

submitted by vondzangg 2 days ago

The recent events in Burma/Myanmar, beginning with the November 2010 elections and the subsequent series of reforms, have taken Europe by surprise. For the last 20 years, the European Union (EU) ha...

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Respectable Vamp: A Black Feminist Analysis of Florence Mills’ Career in Early Vaudeville Theater

submitted by soltcido 2 days ago

Florence Mills was one of only a few African American women vaudeville performers to become an international success. Born in Washington D.C. in 1895 and raised in Harlem, New York, Mills was a chi...

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“If It Wasn’t for the Church…:” Organizational Religiosity and Informal Community Helping among African American Adults

submitted by necak 2 days ago

The African American helping tradition has been and continues to be instrumental to the survival and advancement of the African American community. Christian religion is integral to the maintenance...

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Laughing to Death: Joking as Support amid Stigma for Zulu-speaking South Africans Living with HIV

submitted by doloresstyron 3 days ago

Moving beyond the truism that laughter is the best medicine, this article integrates multiple linguistic anthropological models of humor to theorize why joking is so often used to address issues at...

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Who's Afraid of Rinkeby Swedish? Stylization, Complicity, Resistance

submitted by olixtabeng 3 days ago

Over the last 30 years, linguistic practices of young people in highly dense urban environments in Sweden (also called Rinkeby Swedish) have become something of a Foucauldian conundrum: a phenomeno...

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“What's in Your Lunch Box Today?”: Health, Respectability, and Ethnicity in the Primary Classroom

submitted by deviro 3 days ago

Much socialization of children into healthy food practices takes place in the educational system. However, teachers' understandings of healthy food may differ from those of students and parents. Fu...

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