Apollo in the North: Transmutations of the Sun God in Walter Pater’s Imaginary Portraits by Lene Østermark-Johansen

“…Furthermore, Pater is engaging in a complex geopolitical argument, playing out German, French and English culture against each other, as he traces the survival of the pagan gods after the onset of Christianity. …”
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À la Recherche de Yankee Art by Dimitrios S. Latsis

“…In this paper I explore the geopolitical, aesthetic and cultural dimensions of the exhibition as an episode of cultural diplomacy in Franco-American relations and as an attempt to promote, for the first time, an American ‘national artistic scene’ to the world. …”
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Russian consumer lending market in modern conditions by I. A. Rizvanova

“…In the current conditions, the Russian financial market has demonstrated its stability and ability to promptly respond to the ongoing changes in the geopolitical sphere, while the banks that control more than 80 % of the country’s assets are under sanctions. …”
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Dynamiques identitaires anciennes et actuelles chez les Aché du Paraguay oriental : éléments de compréhension by Philippe Edeb Piragi

“…Following forced settlement in Mission-run reservations which was completed in 1978, older geopolitical segmentations were replaced by a new distribution of this nomadic society in permanent and independent colonies. …”
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The Role of Information War in the Strengthening of Stereotypes about Russia in the Western Political Space by Irina Milutinović, Aleksandar Gajić

“…Negative perceptions of Russia as “the Other” in societies belonging to the Western political tradition have been shaped in a long historical perspective and have their own cultural and geopolitical matrix. These stereotypes mostly perceive Russia and its population through collectivism, authoritarianism and impulsiveness. …”
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Changement climatique et développement rural dans les montagnes du Moyen-Atlas et leurs bordures (Maroc) by Moulay-Driss El Jihad

“…This article takes a geopolitical approach to this particular issue in the Middle Atlas. …”
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« A Shadow behind the Heart » : l’Étranger au cœur de l’intime dans Pnin de Nabokov by Lara Delage-Toriel

“…According to Nabokov, the writer’s one and only passport is his style, which allows him to cross and especially transcend any geopolitical boundary. For all that, strangers and foreigners are frequently present in his work. …”
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Heritage routes and multiple narratives. The Inca Road System (Qhapaq Ñan, Camino principal andino / Andean road system): a specific case of a non-tourism heritage route? by Elodie Salin

“…The study of the Qhapaq Ñan (Camino principal andino / Andean road system), some 4,000 km of roads across six Andean countries from Colombia in the north to Argentina and Chile in the south, inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2014, provides a geopolitical interpretation of an ambitious transnational cultural project. …”
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Insecurity and generalized political crises by Lawali Dambo, Maman Waziri Mato, Département de Géographie, Université de Zinder, Niger, Elhadji Maman Moutari

“…This chronic insecurity, resulting from several political crises (two rebellions in Niger, crises in Libya and Mali, the Boko Haram movement in northern Nigeria) since the 1990s, has revealed the extreme weakness of a tourism model in an area whose geopolitical situation, once considered an asset, has become a major constraint on the flowering of an activity that contributes both to the livelihood of a whole region and the cultural development of an entire people.This insecurity has obliged different local stakeholders to develop adaptation strategies ranging from the exercise of multiple activities to a sort of conversion from tourism towards other sectors of activity. …”
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The Empire of Beasts Then and Now: Political Cartoons and New Trends in Victorian Animal Studies by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

“…This article attempts to analyse the animal display as a political commentary in the visual images of Punch or The London Charivari Magazine in the aftermath of the 1857 Mutiny and the growing geopolitical tensions worldwide. In exhibiting and displaying such animals as the lion, the tiger, the crocodile and the bear while dealing with colonial issues, the popular British cartoons acted as complex rhetorical structures that helped to powerfully influence mass opinion and consequently harnessed the public support for the Empire. …”
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Pêcheurs artisanaux en AMP : gardiens de la biodiversité ou des frontières maritimes ? (San Andrés, Colombie) by Justine Berthod

“…The Biosphere Reserve fulfills above all a geopolitical function, making fishermen guardians of national frontiers rather than guardians of the biodiversity.…”
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Vers une géographie imaginée de la Perse by Aurélie Choné

“…Most of the book is devoted to Persia. My geopolitical reading dwells on Faber’s art of travel and sketches the outlines of the “imagined geography” of Persia that the narrative points out, especially through the importance it gives to some archetypal places. …”
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Analysis of modern air transportation in Russia by T. A. Petrova, V. A. Kardanov

“…Additionally, in light of recent global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, air cargo has faced additional challenges related to restrictions on passenger flights, changes in airport operating hours and increased health regulations, while the geopolitical situation has had a significant impact on transport and development of transport infrastructure throughout the EAEU. …”
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Reterritorialiser les stéréotypes latino-américains : comment les mèmes permettent une critique des impérialismes culturels by Thibaut Vaillancourt

“…The question then becomes that of knowing what the presuppositions and foundations of certain Latin American memes are, to finally ask us what geopolitical and cultural relations are at work behind problematic representations of Latin America and its inhabitants.…”
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State Control and Commercial Influence in Provisioning Constantinople by Hüseyin Erkan Bedirhanoğlu

“…Through this analysis, the article sheds light on the complex interplay between state authority, economic structures, and external factors in sustaining the food supply of Constantinople amidst geopolitical upheavals and demographic changes.…”
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The Heritage-scape: Origins, Theoretical Interventions, and Critical Reception of a Model for Understanding UNESCO’s World Heritage Program by Michael A. Di Giovine

“…As a theoretical buzzword meant to describe a particular, utopian model of the geopolitical order, it has nevertheless taken on a life of its own, and the article addresses some of the misconceptions, as well as clarifications made by the author, during the course of the last decade. …”
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‘Messianic Fraternity’: Anticommunism in the General Conferences of the Latin American and Caribbean Episcopate by Carlos Piccone-Camere

“…Grounded in a critical analysis of the CELAM’s final documents, this study identifies the theological, political, and social underpinnings of this stance, situating it within the historical and geopolitical dynamics that positioned the Church as a key counterforce to Marxism in the region. …”
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Educational tourism in the context of global challenges by N. A. Ofitserova

“…The article is devoted to educational tourism which currently acts as one of the promising technologies of modern education, demonstrating a steady demand for it despite the aggravated geopolitical and socio-economic situations, and that explains the relevance of this issue. …”
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Accumulation solaire : la théorie des systèmes-mondes de The Expanse by Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sean O’Brien

“…This essay proposes that The Expanse offers an image of a worlds-system, by which we mean an interplanetary system of capital accumulation that reproduces the structure of twentieth-century geopolitical economy at the level of the solar system. …”
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Joint multifractality in cross-correlations between grains & oilseeds indices and external uncertainties by Ying-Hui Shao, Xing-Lu Gao, Yan-Hong Yang, Wei-Xing Zhou

“…Moreover, we use three uncertainty proxies, namely, economic policy uncertainty (EPU), geopolitical risk (GPR), and Volatility Index (VIX). …”
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