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Negotiating colonial violence: spaces of precarisation in Palestine
This paper examines the ways in which colonial violence is transformed and spatialised into negotiated precarities at the occupied Palestine. The notion of ânegotiated precarityâ is developed herein, to refer to two aspects in particular. First, to spatial compartmentalisation, which shows how the settler colonial power operates by creating precarious administrative zones, where the life of the colonised becomes prone to several ïŹexible, negotiated uses of power. Second, negotiated precarity is used to refer to the conduct of the colonised that counters, transforms, redirects, cancels or hampers the colonial spatialisations of power. By focusing on the ânegotiated precaritiesâ in a singular West Bank village, I exemplify how the colonial governing is entwined with spatial compartments that enable several informal, indirect and ad hoc techniques of colonial violence, but also how the colonial governing is constantly mobilised, negotiated, countered and redirected in/through the everyday Palestinian spaces.publishedVersionPeer reviewe
Characterization of single-chain polymer folding using size exclusion chromatography with multiple modes of detection
The alarmin IL-1α is a master cytokine in acute lung inflammation induced by silica micro- and nanoparticles
Synthesis of Poly(arylene vinylene)s with Different End Groups by Combining Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization with Wittigâtype Couplings
Synthesis of Poly(arylene vinylene)s with Different End Groups by Combining Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization with Wittigâtype Couplings
WellâDefined EndâFunctionalized Conjugated Polymers/Oligomers Exhibiting Unique Emission Properties through the End Groups: The Exclusive Synthesis by Combined Olefin Metathesis with Wittigâtype Coupling
Tuning the size of supramolecular single-chain polymer nanoparticles
In this article we further investigate our recently devised method for folding polymer chains into nanoparticles using intramolecular, supramolecular interactions. Specifically, we show a direct relationship between molecular weight of the parent chain and size of the folded nanoparticle. This is investigated both analytically via the separation and subsequent characterization of a polydisperse nanoparticle sample into high and low molecular weight fractions, and by examining a family of poly(norbornenes) deliberately prepared with varying molecular weights. With these polymer nanoparticles in hand their assembly on surfaces is studied where larger structures are formed as a result of the interplay between the movement of the nanoparticles on the surface and the evaporation of solvent
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