107 research outputs found

    Rumours, sects and rallies : the ethnic politics of recent Hmong Millenarian movements in Vietnam’s highlands

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    Contrary to modernist assumptions, millenarianism has not died out but continues to influence the politics of many marginalised groups in upland Southeast Asia, including the Hmong. This article summarises and analyses post-World War II Hmong millenarian activity in Vietnam, focusing on three case studies from the 1980s onwards, within the political backdrop of ongoing government suspicions of ethnic separatism and foreign interference. Far from being isolated or peripheral, Hmong millenarian rumours and movements interact with overseas diasporas, human rights agencies and international religious networks to influence state responses, sometimes in unexpected ways

    Imagens da nação, do progresso e da tecnologia: a Exposição Universal de Filadélfia de 1876

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    Após considerar premissas sobre as imagens como representações sociais e sobre as Exposições Universais como um teatro privilegiado para a exibição daquela hermenêutica do real engendra-da pela transformação capitalista do mundo e pelo ideá rio burguês, incluindo ainda a dimensão utópica da época, a A. brevemente caracteriza a Exposição do Centenário (da Independência Americana), na Filadélfia, 1876. Comenta a presença de um pavilhão brasileiro e os ecos da visita do Imperador D.Pedro 11. Enfim, confronta sentidos divergentes, quer se trate da auto-imagem de sucesso do "sonho americano", quer das contradições de uma identidade brasileira que tenta incorporar a nova ética do trabalho livre mecanizado, numa sociedade escravocrata e vinculada ao mercado internacional

    Qualitative impact assessment of land management interventions on Ecosystem Services (‘QEIA’). Report-2: Integrated Assessment

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    The focus of this project was to provide an expert-led, rapid qualitative assessment of land management interventions on Ecosystem Services (ES) proposed for inclusion in Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. This involved a review of the current evidence base for 741 land management actions on 33 Ecosystem Services and 53 Ecosystem Service indicators by ten expert teams drawn from the independent research community in a consistent series of ten Evidence Reviews covering the broad topics of; • Air quality • Greenhouse gas emissions • Soils • Water management • Biodiversity: croplands • Biodiversity: improved grassland • Biodiversity: semi-natural habitats • Biodiversity: integrated systems-based actions • Carbon sequestration • Cultural services (including recreation, geodiversity and regulatory services) These reviews were undertaken rapidly at Defra’s request by ten teams involving 45 experts who together captured more than 2,400 individual sources of evidence. This was followed by the Integrated Assessment (IA) reported here to provide a more accessible summary of these evidence reviews with a focus on capturing the actions with the greatest potential magnitude of change for the intended ES, and their potential co-benefits and trade-offs for the other ES

    Qualitative Impact Assessment of Land Management Interventions on Ecosystem Services (“QEIA”). Report-1: Executive Summary: QEIA Evidence Review & Integrated Assessment

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    The focus of this project was to provide an expert-led, rapid qualitative assessment of land management interventions on Ecosystem Services (ES) proposed for inclusion in Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes. This involved a review of the current evidence base for 741 land management actions on 33 Ecosystem Services and 53 Ecosystem Service indicators by ten teams involving 45 experts drawn from the independent research community in a consistent series of Evidence Reviews covering the broad topics of: • Air quality • Greenhouse gas emissions • Soils • Water management • Biodiversity: croplands • Biodiversity: improved grassland • Biodiversity: semi-natural habitats • Biodiversity: integrated systems-based actions • Carbon sequestration • Cultural services (including recreation, geodiversity and regulatory services). It should be noted that this piece of work is just one element of the wider underpinning work Defra has commissioned to support the development of the ELM schemes

    High Imperialism and the New History

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    https://scholar.dominican.edu/cynthia-stokes-brown-books-personal-research/1155/thumbnail.jp

    RATU ADIL: Tokoh dan Gerakan Milenarian Menentang Kolonialisme Eropa

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    Agricultural and Pastoral Societies in Ancient and Classical History

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    Introduces readers to the cross-cultural study of ancient and classical civilizations. The book is divided into two sections, the first examining the ongoing interaction between ancient agrarian and nomadic societies and the second focusing on regional patterns in the dissemination of ideas.https://scholar.dominican.edu/cynthia-stokes-brown-books-personal-research/1143/thumbnail.jp

    Altered States: Adapting Technologies for a Global Order in Upheaval

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    Lecture presented on September 20, 2007 in the D. M. Smith Building on the Georgia Tech CampusRuntime: 61:28 minutesDr. Michael Adas is Abraham Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers Universit

    Bad Wars, Failed Nation-Building, and the Retreat from Globalism

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    特集 : アメリカは今 歴史から政治へSpecial Topic : Looking at the Present from the Past : The Transformations of Political Culture in the United State
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