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Bonded Labour
Parallel to the abolition of Atlantic slavery, new forms of indentured labour stilled global capitalisms need for cheap, disposable labour. The famous coolie trade - mainly Asian labourers transferred to French and British islands in the Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, as well as to Portuguese colonies in Africa - was one of the largest migration m…
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Genomics in emerging and developing economies
The notion of Brazil as a ‘racial laboratory’ has fascinated and facilitated the interests of both foreign and Brazilian scientists since the mid-nineteenth century with the themes of race and racial mixture integral to thinking about the country’s historical formation (De Souza and Santos 2014). As a result Brazil has long been constituted as both a valuable site and source of geneti…
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Challenges to feminist knowledge? The economisation of EU gender equality policy
Such developments have been typical of the European Union’s (EU) gender equality policy. In comparison to other international institutions, the EU has been seen as a progressive gender equality actor
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Body, Capital, and Screens:
This book began life with the inaugural conference of the international research project 'The healthy self as body capital: Individuals, market-based societies, body politics and visual media in the twentieth century Europe', held in Strasbourg from 23 to 25 February 2017. The editors would like to thank all participants for their stimulating input during this outstanding event. The presen…
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Chapter 4 Godofredo and Francoise Travel Around the World : Phantoms, Radioio…
This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, travelled the world carrying Françoise in a box-like suitcase that also included a number of …
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Body Matched Antennas for Microwave Medical Applications
In this work, new concepts of body-matched antennas for microwave medical applications were developed, where the antennas are placed directly on or in the human body. Two types of antennas were designed - on-body matched antennas for diagnosis and implantable antennas for data telemetry with the main focus of miniaturization yet maintained a high radiation performance. The applicability of the …
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Body Contouring and Sculpting
Over the past decades, surgical techniques have greatly progressed to improve and correct appearance. They are artistic procedures to give the highly demanded proportions. The growing public interest in aesthetic and plastic surgery interventions such as body contouring and sculpting requires clear description and differentiation of these highly sophisticated techniques, their results and combi…
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Temple and Royalty
How and when did the Hindu temple come to be associated with dynasties, rulers and political processes? The chapter traces the beginning of scholarship on the Hindu temple in the late 19th century and its subsequent ‘discovery’, nomenclature and listing by colonial archaeologists. In their attempt to construct a political history of India based on texts and inscriptions, scholars used templ…
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Chapter 1 Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times
This paper argues that the integration of the multimodal and the multilingual which pre-exists modern digital media is all but haphazard. Thus their dynamics and trends that have endured and developed over the centuries call for a systematic scholarly exploration. For instance, in historical texts and contemporary social media alike preattentive engagement techniques are implemented by content …
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"Emergency feeding" in America: making words and deeds actually matter
Making change is never easy. In New York City, the largest in the United States with over eight million people, West Side Campaign Against Hunger (WSCAH) has focused on making sure all New Yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive services.
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