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"Negotiating Resettlement": some Concluding Thoughts “协商安置”的若干结论性思考

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-11-25 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.4.290-306

P. Gatrell

引用次数: 1

The mythology of the Social Impact Bond: a critical assessment from a concerned observer 社会影响债券的神话：一位关注者的批判性评价

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.3.161-183

L. Huckfield

引用次数: 8

Digital Finance Inclusion and the Mobile Money "Social" Enterprise: A Socio-Legal Critique of M-Pesa in Kenya 数字金融普惠与移动货币“社会”企业——肯尼亚M-Pesa的社会法律批判

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.3.74-94

Serena Natile

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引用次数: 11

Rethinking Science, Religion and Nature in Environmental History: Drought in Early Twentieth-Century New Zealand 重新思考环境历史中的科学、宗教和自然:20世纪初新西兰的干旱

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-06-25 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.29.2004.3.82-103

James Beattie

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引用次数: 12

Schengen and the Rosary: Catholic Religion and the Postcolonial Syndrome in Polish National Habitus 申根和念珠:波兰民族习惯中的天主教和后殖民综合症

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.1.153-181

M. Bucholc

引用次数: 2

Greek Nationalism as a Case of Political Religion: Rituals and Sentimentality 作为政治宗教案例的希腊民族主义:仪式与感伤

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.1.103-128

Nicolas Demertzis, Hara Stratoudaki

引用次数: 3

State Formation, Habitus, and National Character: Elias, Bourdieu, Polanyi, and Gellner and the Case of Asylum Seekers in Ireland 《国家形成、习惯和民族性格:伊莱亚斯、布迪厄、波兰尼、盖尔纳和爱尔兰寻求庇护者案例》

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.1.226-261

Steven Loyal, S. Quilley

引用次数: 5

The Uncanny: How Cultural Trauma Trumps Reason in German Israeli Scientific Collaborations 不可思议:德以科学合作中的文化创伤如何胜过理性

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.1.87-102

Gad Yair

引用次数: 3

The History of Veterans' Policy in the United States: A Comparative Overview 美国退伍军人政策的历史:比较综述

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.2.239-260

Olivier Burtin

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引用次数: 4

Did You Say "Social Impact"? Welfare Transformations, Networks of Expertise, and the Financialization of Italian Welfare 你是说“社会影响”吗?福利转型、专业知识网络和意大利福利的金融化

IF 0.9 3区历史学

Historical Social Research-Historische Sozialforschung Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.12759/HSR.45.2020.3.140-160

D. Caselli

引用次数: 3