Les statistiques localisées au Brésil : un kaléidoscope de catégories de territoires by Cathy Chatel, Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito

“…The large number of territorial categories of official statistics of present-day Brazil reveals a great wealth of data, provided they are not considered as a "turnkey" material for research.From a pre-statistical European model inherited from the colonial period, to the rationality of the state, then to the liberal and post-modern context that spread in the globalized world, the IBGE categories reveal the paradoxes due to the superposition of different points of view on how to characterize the urban space. …”
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La industria textil en América Latina by Claudio Belini

“…En los Andes y Mesoamérica, la producción de textiles era ya muy importante en tiempos prehispánicos y con-tinuó siéndolo durante los siglos de la dominación colonial. El surgimiento de los obrajes coloniales, las variaciones regionales de este desarrollo, los vínculos con el capital comercial, su papel en la conforma-ción de los mercados coloniales y su contribución al desarrollo del capitalismo fueron cuestiones que concitaron una gran atención de los latinoamericanistas. …”
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Identification and antibiotic susceptibility of catalase negative gram positive cocci isolated from dairy cows with subclinical mastitis by H. Hüseyin Hadimli, Zafer Sayın, Osman Erganiş, Kürşat Kav

“…Isolates were selected according to coloni morphological and haemolysis properties and were identified by VITEC 2.…”
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Florida's Bats: Florida Bonneted Bat by Holly K. Ober, Terry J. Doonan, Emily H. Evans

“…Additional concerns include the species’ small population size and restricted range, the small number of known colonies, their slow reproduction, and the relative isolation of separate populations of bonneted bats. …”
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Semi-field studies on biochemical markers of honey bee workers (Apis mellifera) after exposure to pesticides and their mixtures. by Agnieszka Murawska, Ewelina Berbeć, Krzysztof Latarowski, Adam Roman, Paweł Migdał

“…Workers developed in the hive and were provisioned with to pesticides in concentrations corresponding to residues detected in pollen, honey, and/or nectar. Colonies were exposed daily to 0.5L for 7 days by feeding a sugar syrup containing a formulation of acetamiprid (250 ppb) (insecticide), glyphosate (7200 ppb) (herbicide), and tebuconazole (147 ppb) (fungicide) administered alone, in a binary or ternary mixture. …”
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GLOBALIZATION, POST-COLONIZING MIGRATION AND NEO-SLAVERY: THE SOCIO-POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY AFRICAN STATES by Jonathan C. Madu

“…My paper argues that the process of decolonization, especially in Africa was incomplete and that former colonies were excluded from key economic decisions that came to have severe implications for their future attempts at developing their economies, which got worse with globalization. …”
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A RE-EXAMINATION OF INDIGENOUS VALUES AS PANACEA FOR LEADERSHIP CHALLENGES IN NIGERIA by CHIAKOR ALFRED, EUGENE ALIEGBA, RUTH CALEB LUKA

“…Using the political economy framework of analysis, the write up provides the historical foundations and relationship between leadership within Nigeria’s pre-colonial societies, and has compared same to the leadership question in modern democratic practice. …”
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Devociones católicas, prácticas religiosas, y cofradías- hermandades en Colombia (siglos XVI-XIX): una aproximación bibliográfica by Jerson Fidel Jaimes Rodríguez, Santiago Mendieta Afanador

“…Este artículo hace una aproximación bibliográfica a los trabajos académicos realizados en torno al hecho religioso y cuyas temáticas en específico han sido: i) las devociones católicas; ii) las prácticas religiosas; y iii) las cofradías-hermandades en Colombia, desde el periodo colonial hasta el siglo XIX. Metodológicamente se ha partido de una búsqueda exhaustiva de bibliografía relacionada con las temáticas de trabajo, principalmente en bibliotecas, repositorios digitales y en las diferentes bases de datos de las revistas especializadas. …”
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Maps and Memory, Rights and Relationships by Sian Sullivan

“…First, I highlight the significance of historical colonial and apartheid contexts generating mapped reorganisations of land and human populations for memories of access and use that exceed these reorganisations. …”
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Jews, Rights, and Belonging in Tunisia: Léon Elmilik, 1861-1881 by Jessica M. Marglin

“…Rights were central to the construction of belonging; by examining the various guarantors of rights to which Jews appealed, we can glimpse the multiple levels of belonging that Jews – and to some extent Muslims – cultivated in the pre-colonial Maghrib.…”
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[Erratum] Oxidative Stress Mediates the Association between Thyroid Dysfunction and Breast Cancer by Maira Mahmood, Mazhar Mushtaq, Aamenah Malik, Rukhshan Khurshid, Faiza Aamir, Arham Javed

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Animal Objects: Memory, Desire and Mourning by Julia Courtney

“…Hunting trophies, taxidermic mounts and domestic objects made from preserved dismembered parts, allowed retired colonial ‘Nimrods’ and intrepid ‘Dianas’ to relive the vivid experiences of big game hunting. …”
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Territorial Trajectories within a New Centre for the Globalised Mining Industry: the Andes of Northern Argentina by Marie Forget

“…Latin America’s renewed focus on primary industries involving the extraction and export of unprocessed natural resources can be viewed as a step back to colonial-style exploitation. As such, it raises questions about North–South relations and the development of mountain territories, which are often peripheral, poor and sparsely populated. …”
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The Fall of Fertility in Tasmania, Australia, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Helen Moyle

“…The paper examines the fall of marital fertility in Tasmania, the second settled Australian colony, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. …”
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Médiations autour du patrimoine de l’esclavage à l’Écomusée municipal d’Approuague-Kaw (Guyane) : enjeux, état des lieux et perspectives by Damien Hanriot

“…It recently focused on the colonial and slavery period of the Lower-Approuague where the artifacts and features of this forgotten past can still be found today. …”
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Afroturismo nos sítios dos patrimônios mundiais brasileiros: desafios e oportunidades com ênfase em uma narrativa decolonial by Ana Maria Vieira Fernandes, Gabrielle Cifelli

“…Considerando a redução narrativa existente nos discursos de patrimonialização, que frequentemente destacam o patrimônio colonial hegemônico, essa pesquisa busca esclarecer como esses Patrimônios Brasileiros estão sendo revelados por meio do Afroturismo, a partir de uma narrativa decolonial, e até que ponto a comunidade local desempenha um papel central no desafiador processo de revelação da memória afro-brasileira e de seus bens culturais materiais e imateriais.…”
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Trigona corvina: An Ecological Study Based on Unusual Nest Structure and Pollen Analysis by David W. Roubik, J. Enrique Moreno Patiño

“…We found that the nest of Trigona corvina (Apidae; Meliponini) consists mainly of pollen exines from bee excrement, forming a scutellum shield encasing the colony. A 20-year-old nest (1980–2000) from a lowland Panama forested habitat was sawed in half longitudinally, and a 95 cm transect was systematically sampled each 5 cm. …”
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Representaciones del Demonio: miedos sociales vislumbrados en tres escritos conventuales neogranadinos by Esther Cristina Cabrera Lema

“…El proyecto ordenador de la Iglesia Católica estructuró el cuerpo social colonial a partir de los modelos de comportamiento ideales de sujetos ejemplares, adicionalmente se utilizaron discursos referentes al Demonio, lo que permitió trasladar los miedos basados en conceptos religiosos a miedos sociales del contexto neogranadino. …”
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Le parc national de l’Ichkeul (Tunisie) : une zone humide rétrolittorale aux paysages vulnérabilisés by Nathalie Carcaud

“…The documentary sources selected are colonial documentary films, small-scale maps and written documents from the region, large-scale topographic maps, postcards and oblique aerial photographs. …”
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MANDATO DE LA BLANQUIDAD: RACISMO Y PRIVILEGIO RACIAL EN CALI by Gustavo A. Santana-Perlaza

“…Por tanto, desde una perspectiva autoetnográfica sobre mi experiencia como no-blanco, desplazado y víctima del conflicto en Cali, propongo una lectura crítica sobre los privilegios raciales que agencia el racismo y sus repercusiones en los cuerpos racializados, cosificados, dando origen a lo que denominaré el mandato de blanquidad, para analizar el régimen normativo de los privilegios y sus manifestaciones como marco de sociabilidad inscrito en la estructura social del proyecto moderno/colonial de la blanquidad.…”
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