Skolövergripande sexualundervisning by Karin Gunnarsson

“…This article explores how whole-school sexuality education is enacted within collective conditions. Drawing on actor-network theory, these collective conditions are examined as socio-material capacities that both stabilize and weaken sexuality education in relation to other actors and practices. …”
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Écologiser sans contester : le travail politique autour de deux éco-innovations dans l’aquaculture canadienne by Antoine Police

“…To operationalize this idea, the paper draws on two case studies in Canadian aquaculture. …”
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L’image pour déconstruire l’imaginaire à la frontière entre le Tadjikistan et l’Afghanistan by Mélanie Sadozaï

“…To do so, photography must be presented alongside other first-hand sources such as numerical data, qualitative interviews and notes drawing on direct observation. This combination of ethnographic methods allows for the elaboration of the narrative depicting a resource-producing border which debunks that of a perceived dangerous border. …”
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Après le boom : la laborieuse mise en œuvre de nouvelles régulations dans le secteur minier guinéen by Johannes Knierzinger

“…Since 2003, after a long period of liberalization, more than a dozen African countries have adopted new mining codes which distinguish themselves markedly from their liberal predecessors. Drawing on fieldwork in Guinea, the article retraces the different stages of the implementation process of such a “progressive” mining code, including its modification in 2013 due to the pressure of the mining industry, the adoption of application texts and the adaption of mining contracts, and the introduction of new practises and their supervision in and around the mines.…”
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What’s God got to do with it ? The role of religion in the internal dynamics of migrants’ networks in Turkey by Sebnem Koser Akcapar

“…So far, immigration scholars have mostly taken up the religion issue in terms of adaptation or non-adaptation to the host society and research on the role of religion as carriers of positive social capital in transit countries has not given enough attention. Drawing on the migration histories of two groups of Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, converted cases to Christianity and Bahais, this paper will examine the differences and similarities between these two groups. …”
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Starost na Zemi po humanismu by Ritter, Martin

“…With regard to this “ecological” dimension of posthumanism, I will focus on the relationship between humans and technology, drawing on Bernard Stiegler. Stiegler’s reflections show that in the era of the Anthropocene human beings have become an irrational force that pulls the rest of the living beings into a spiral of destruction through the technological system they have established in the shared terrestrial environment. …”

Growing, grown, gone. The ephemeral status of pets among the Madiha (Kulina) of the Peruvian Amazon by Andrea Zuppi

“…By analyzing pet keeping practices against notions of mastery/ownership, feeding and child adoption, as well as by drawing on the work of specialists of the region, this article shows that pet keeping does not have as its purpose the creation of an adult animal, nor can it unproblematically be considered under the prism of adoption since the animals kept as pets are inevitably de-familiarized.…”
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Navigating uncertainty: parental agency in Kansan Chinese families’ education at home during the pandemic by Danqing Yin

“…The author uses online interviews to investigate how parental agency is manifested through parents’ actions regarding children’s education and health. Drawing inspiration from Bandura’s theory on human agency, the study applies four core properties of agency: intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness, and self-reflectiveness. …”
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La terre, dernier élément de Charles Darwin by Michel Prum

“…Yet Darwin’s last opus was also a brilliant plea for the theory of the accumulation of small variations (drawing upon Lyellian uniformitarism) and for a new positioning of Man in the animal kingdom that departed from the old Judaeo-Christian tradition. …”
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The Socio-political Dynamics of the Citizen’s Revolution. Political Work as the ‘Art of Serving’ that Separates and Unites State and Society by José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez

“…This article analyses the relations between politics and society during the so-called citizen’s revolution in Ecuador. Drawing on ethnographic research focused on political brokerage or the ‘art of serving’, the article analyses the particularities of political work by analysing the linkages and tensions that are constructed between the population of a suburb of the city of Guayaquil, the members of the governing political party of the Citizen’s Revolution, Movimiento Patria Altiva i Soberana (Alianza PAIS) and State functionaries. …”
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Evaluation of Innovation Efficiency of High-Tech Enterprise Knowledge Supply Chain Based on AHP-DEA by Huiyuan Han, Xiaomin Gu

“…This paper introduces a qualitative analysis on the efficiency evaluation of the knowledge supply chain by combining the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with data envelopment analysis (DEA), drawing on existing literature to determine the index weight through the scoring of industry experts, and selecting appropriate input and output indicators to construct a knowledge supply chain efficiency evaluation system. …”
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Knowing from a Distance by Sophia Deterala, Eula Bianca Villar

“… Through a dialogical exchange about disasters, we explore the notion of “knowing” by drawing on our own experience and research about improvisation and disaster management. …”
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A Faith that Does Justice:The Public Testimony of Oliver Tambo by Jonathan D. Jansen

“…Yet, less is written about the faith of these men, and more about their politics; even less studied is the spiritual life of political leaders,what Nelson Mandela, in reference to his struggle companion, Oliver Tambo, called ‘the essence’ of man. Drawing on the construct of interiority, this article offers a re-assessment of public testimonies about the ANC’s longest serving president, demonstrating how the internal workings of Tambo’s faith came to be expressed in the external life and leadership of this devout Christian activist. …”
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Funny Bestsellers: Positioning Female Comedian Memoirs in the Book Industry by Corinna Norrick-Rühl

“…The article offers a book studies-centered perspective, drawing on quantitative as well as qualitative data. …”
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The non-standard in writing: A look at West African and Southeast Asian literature by Michael PERCILLIER

“…Using a corpus-based approach focussed on Southeast Asian and West African texts while also drawing on texts from Scotland for purposes of comparison, the study performs a quantitative analysis that empirically defines linguistic feature profiles, revealing that the regions under investigation follow clearly distinct patterns, albeit with a common underlying principle. …”
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Assessment, creativity and learning: A personal perspective by Richard Hickman

“…I look in particular at assessment practices and detail my understanding of the nature of learning, focusing on creativity and the tensions associated with schooling and creative behaviour. Drawing upon and developing my earlier work in the light of further research and experience, I give an overview of assessment practices and approaches to teaching and learning and argue for a learner‐centred approach with a focus on practical work and an environment that promotes creative problem‐solving across the whole curriculum. …”
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Uzak, or the unbearable lightness of the ordinary by Andrea Pavoni

“…The third section makes an argument for the capacity of cinema to do so, mainly drawing from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Lauren Berlant. …”
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Climate Change and Vulnerability in Local Areas: Attitudes to Evolving Risks and Adaptation in Two Pyrenean Valleys by Christine Bouisset, Sylvie Clarimont, Isabelle Degrémont

“…Drawing on our findings in the Western Pyrenees, this article aims to bring a better understanding of attitudes among local players, mainly elected representatives but also residents, to change - especially climate change - and how these changes are likely to affect the vulnerability to risks of mountain areas in the shorter or longer term. …”
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Developing Markets for Recycled Organic Products in Florida by Mohammad Rahmani, Alan W. Hodges, Clyde F. Kiker

“… Issues on various aspects of recycled organic products are drawing increasing attention from public and private sectors. …”
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Coordination Between Institutional Resource Regimes as a Condition for Sustainable Management of Alpine Touristic Resources by Stéphane Nahrath, Christian Bréthaut

“…This article, drawing on the analytical approach of institutional resource regimes (IRR), offers an original analysis of the challenges of resource management in an Alpine touristic space (Crans-Montana in Switzerland). …”
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