THE DIFFERENT MEANINGS OF LAND IN THE AGE OF NEOLIBERALISM: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON COMMONS AND RESILIENCE GRABBING FROM A SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

The Different Meanings of Land in the Age of Neoliberalism: Theoretical Reflections on Commons and Resilience Grabbing from a Social Anthropological Perspective

Recent debates in social anthropology on land acquisitions highlight the need to go further back in history in order to analyse their impacts on local livelihoods.The debate over the commons in economic and ecological anthropology helps us understand some of today’s dynamics by looking at precolonial common property institutions and the way t

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Belief in biological origin of race (racial essentialism) increases sensitivities to cultural category changes measured by ERP mismatch negativity (MMN)

Abstract The dynamic multicultural view explains culture-specific effects on cognition that cultural knowledge is organized in multiple knowledge systems which are specific to each culture and differentially activated when exposed to related objects or scenes.This view predicts automatic categorizations of environmental information according to the

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Disturbance observer based sliding mode control for unmanned helicopter hovering operations in presence of external disturbances

Numerous control techniques are developed for miniature unmanned helicopters to do hover operation with each method having its own advantages and limitations.During the hover operation helicopters suffer from unknown external disturbances such as wind Nasal Sprays and ground effect.For a stable operation, these disturbances must be compensated accu

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