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Migration Map
Posted in Migration, Nation Building, Urban and Rural Development, tagged A Sense of Place, Emmigration, Global Migrant Origin Database, Immigration, Lloyd Wedes, Map, Martin De Wulf on December 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Missing women in the United Kingdom: Sex bias in child selection
Posted in Education, Gender, Kinship, Migration, Nation Building, Religion, Ritual, tagged A Sense of Place, Adamos Adamou, Birth Selection, Canada, Christina Drakos, Custom, Demographics, Ethnicity, Family Planning, Gender Bias, India, Lloyd Wedes, Pakistan, Sex Ratio, Socio-Economics, Sriya Iyer, United Kingdom, United States on December 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Abstract: This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971–2006 General Household Survey. We examine sex-selection in the UK among immigrant families and the gender composition of previous births, conditional on socio-economic characteristics. Our key result is that better-educated immigrants balance their family after the birth of two sons, by having a daughter thereafter. Our study also is the first to estimate the number of missing women among Asian immigrants in a European country, contributing to research on the US and Canada that missing women are also a phenomenon of the developed world.
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Full text: http://www.izajom.com/content/pdf/2193-9039-2-10.pdf
Adamos Adamou, Christina Drakos, Sriya Iyer
Missing women in the United Kingdom
IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:10 doi:10.1186/2193-9039-2-10
Haunting Modernity: Tanuki, Trains, and Transformation in Japan
Posted in Nation Building, Nature, Recognition and Memory, Religion, Ritual, Urban and Rural Development, tagged A Sense of Place, Acculturation, Adaptation, Beliefs, Conflict, Culture, Folklore, Haunting, Identity, Japan, Legends, Lloyd Wedes, Michael Dylan Foster, Modernity, Perception, Regional Influence, Religion, Scientific Reasoning, Shapeshifting, Symbolism, Tanuki, Technology, Traditionalism, Trickster, Yōkai on July 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Abstract:
This article explores a cycle of legends popular in Japan from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Featuring a deadly confrontation
between a tanuki (“raccoon dog”) and a steam train, these narratives enact a conflict between a traditional animal of Japanese folk belief and a new technology that was rapidly transforming the countryside; they articulate anxiety about, and resistance to, the burgeoning infrastructure of modernity and the changes it would bring to the natural and cultural environments.
Furthermore, as narratives of haunting, in which restless memories of the past disturb the easy flow of the present, these tales allow us to productively consider the relationship between time and place while also gesturing to the way tales of haunting can assume not only an affective quality, but political and ideological shades as well.
Haunting Modernity: Tanuki, Trains, and Transformation in Japan
Foster, ,Michael Dylan Haunting Modernity Tanuki, Trains, and Transformation in Japan
Asian Ethnology Volume 71, Number1 • 2012, 3–29
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From National Identity to European Identity
Posted in Governance, Nation Building, Recognition and Memory, Urban and Rural Development, tagged A Sense of Place, Acculturation, Culture, Demography, Economics, Elites, EU, Europe, European Identity, European Union, Geography, History, Identity, Law, Lloyd Wedes, Myth, Nationalism, Perception, Politics, Radu Cinopes, Regional Influence, Self Perception on May 25, 2013| 1 Comment »
Abstract. Since the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, and especially in the past few years, the European Union has been going through a mixed process of expansion and consolidation. In the last ten years alone there were two new waves of accession, the EU launched the single currency and failed attempts have been made to introduce a constitution. With all these transformations taking place, attention is more and more centred on the question whether
a European identity is emerging. This article investigates this issue examining comparatively the patterns of national identity and of European identity formation and focusing on whether the relationship between the two is a zero-sum type. The aim is to show that although national identity is not necessarily an obstacle for the development of European identity, nationalism is.
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Full Article: http://www.e-migration.ro/jims/Vol2_no1_2008/JIMS_vol2_no1_2008_CINPOES.pdf
Cinopes, R. From National Identity to European Identity
Journal of Identity and Migration Studies. Volume 2, number 1, 2008
Tropes of Fear: the Impact of Globalization on Batek Religious Landscapes
Posted in Kinship, Migration, Nation Building, Natural Resources, Nature, Recognition and Memory, Religion, Ritual, Topography and Language Communications, Urban and Rural Development, tagged A Sense of Place, Acculturation, Animism, Batak, Conversion, Culture, Economics, Forest, Globalization, Identity, Indigenous People, Islam, Lloyd Wedes, Malaysia, Marginalization, Migration, Orang Asli;Ivan Tacey, Perception, Regional Influence, Religion, Southeast Asia, Taboos on April 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Abstract: The Batek are a forest and forest-fringe dwelling population numbering around 1,500 located in Peninsular Malaysia. Most Batek groups were mobile forest-dwelling foragers and collectors until the recent past. The Batek imbue the forest with religious significance that they inscribe onto the landscape through movement, everyday activities, storytelling, trancing and shamanic journeying. However, as processes of globalization transform Malaysian landscapes, many Batek groups have been deterritorialized and relocated to the forest fringes where they are often pressured into converting to world religions, particularly Islam. Batek religious beliefs and practices have been re-shaped by their increasing encounters with global flows of ideologies, technologies, objects, capital and people, as landscapes are opened up to development.
This article analyzes the ways these encounters are incorporated into the fabric of the Batek’s religious world and how new objects and ideas have been figuratively and literally assimilated into their taboo systems and cosmology. Particular attention is paid to the impacts of globalization as expressed through tropes of fear.
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Full Text: http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/2/240
Tacey, Ivan. 2013. “Tropes of Fear: the Impact of Globalization on Batek Religious Landscapes.” Religions 4, no. 2: 240-266.
Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World
Posted in Governance, Language, Migration, Nation Building, Religion, Topography and Language Communications, Urban and Rural Development, tagged A Sense of Place, Aegean, Ancient Greeks, Anthropogeography, Antiquity, Asia Minor, Black Sea, Boeotia, Cartography, Constantinople, Culture Architecture, Foundation of the Hellenic World, Geology, Greece, Hellas, Lloyd Wedes, Nature, Paleontology, Pontus, Thrace on April 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Overview: The Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World (EHW) is an original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic culture throughout time and space. EHW includes entries that concern geographical-cultural areas lying beyond the borders of the Hellenic nation-state.
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Foundation of The Hellenic World. (n.d) Online Encyclopedia on the History and Civilization of the Aegean.
Introduction to Siberia
Posted in Governance, Kinship, Language, Migration, Nation Building, Natural Resources, Nature, Recognition and Memory, Religion, Topography and Language Communications, Urban and Rural Development, tagged A Sense of Place, Acculturation, Cultural Geography, Culture, Demography, Economic Geography, Energy, Environmental Geography, Geography, Geopolitics, Health, History, Identity, Indigenous People, Lloyd Wedes, Martin W. Lewis, Nationalism, Perception, Politics, Regional Influence, Russia, Siberia, Transporation on March 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Overview: Few parts of the world are so consistently ignored, at least in the English-language media, which almost always focuses on the western, or European, parts of Russia, particularly Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the troubled North Caucasus. Thus, in most people’s imagination, in the West and even in Russia itself, Siberia looks like an iceberg: big, cold, mostly hidden from view, and inherently dangerous. In this series of posts, GeoCurrents aims to shed new light on this vast and significant place. If Siberia were independent, it would have the largest area of any country in the world—by a significant margin.
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Lewis, M.W.. March 21, 2012. Introduction to Siberia, GeoCurrents
Full Text: http://geocurrents.info/place/russia-ukraine-and-caucasus/siberia/introduction-to-siberia
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