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Nature, ideology, and the ecocritical enterprise: Wangari Maathai’s The Green Belt Movement and Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life 自然、意识形态和生态批评事业：旺加里-马塔伊的《绿化带运动》和纳丁-戈迪默的《过上好日子》

Journal of the British Academy Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.5871/jba/012.a16

Zaynab Ango

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On Courting India 向印度求爱

Journal of the British Academy Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.5871/jba/012.a09

Nandini Das, Charles Tripp

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From the ‘culture wars’ to reparative histories 从 "文化战争 "到修复历史

Journal of the British Academy Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.5871/jba/012.a10

Gurminder K. Bhambra, Elizabeth Edwards, Margot Finn, Fiona Williams

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Health and wellbeing in the face of crises associated with climate or conflict: how can knowledge from the humanities and social sciences help us respond to disasters? 面对与气候或冲突有关的危机时的健康和福祉：人文和社会科学知识如何帮助我们应对灾害？

Journal of the British Academy Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.5871/jba/012.a13

Sarah Curtis, Melissa Leach, Kate Ardern, Carly Beckerman, Paul R. Hunter, Hanna Ruszczyk, Mark Pelling

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Editors’ Introduction to Journal of the British Academy, Volume 12, Issues 1 & 2 英国科学院学报》第 12 卷第 1 期和第 2 期编辑导言

Journal of the British Academy Pub Date : 2024-05-22 DOI: 10.5871/jba/012.a01

Fiona Williams, Elizabeth Edwards, Andrew Hadfield

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When they joined: restricted agency and victimhood in Kenyan women's pathways into Al-Shabaab 当她们加入时:肯尼亚妇女进入青年党的途径中的受限代理和受害者身份

Journal of the British Academy Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.5871/jba/011s1.015

Hawa Noor Zitzmann

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War in Ukraine: the case for environmental peacebuilding and reparations 乌克兰战争:环境和平建设和赔偿的案例

Journal of the British Academy Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.5871/jba/011.075

N. Slobodian