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The implementation and development opportunities of co-teaching in primary school - Teachers` experiences and perspectives
No full textLiberal Peacebuilding and Petty Trade: Disconnects in Concepts and Practices
No full textLooking back at mundane cooperation between Armenians and Azerbaijanis at the Sadakhlo market in Georgia, this article asks why international actors were unwilling and/or unable to effectively support this everyday peace formation. By applying political economic perspectives on peacebuilding, it argues that disconnects between neo-liberal projects and everyday peace agency on the ground were related to intervening actors’ lack of reflexivity and an inability to explore, understand, and accommodate the relevance of situated knowledge and informal relationalities of petty traders. The authors articulate the need for changes in knowledge production and alternative economic approaches to support everyday peace agency
Embodied Memory and the Social Trauma of Family Separation: A Case Study of the Ingrian Diaspora
No full textIn this article, we explore how the descendants of displaced Ingrians relate to historical forced migrations and family separation by analysing their embodied family memory and family mentality in making sense of past events. By illuminating the narrative and emotional responses to past family separation among grandchildren of displaced persons, we attest to how individual reminiscing intertwines with family memories and the collective aspect of the body. We show that family memory of family separation has often been transmitted to the next generation in the familial space nonverbally. By analysing two cases from the biographical data collected among the descendants of displaced Ingrians, a historically persecuted ethnic minority, we illustrate the lack of words and affective embodiment of family separation and show how family mentality frames their sense-making of social trauma. We also discuss how past memory politics are carried in contemporary bodies
Vegetation type influences particulate organic matter storage along a low Arctic vegetation gradient
No full textPermafrost soils constitute a large part of the terrestrial carbon pool that is vulnerable to future climate warming. Continued warming of the low Arctic is also leading to the encroachment of large shrubs and trees into tundra ecosystems with effects on microbial community composition, organic matter cycling and physical soil parameters. To date it is still largely unknown how such vegetation shifts affect soil organic matter cycling in permafrost soils on short and long timescales. Here, we investigated differences in soil organic matter properties under graminoid tussock (Eriophorum vaginatum), birch shrub (Betula glandulosa), spruce tree (Picea mariana) and alder shrub (Alnus viridis) vegetation by density fractionation and subsequent measurements of organic carbon, total nitrogen, δ13C, and lignin phenol biomarker contents. Particulate organic matter constituted 1.3–11.3% of soil weight and stored between 29 and 89% of the total soil lignin, 12–60% of organic carbon and 6–40% of total nitrogen. The contribution of particulate organic matter generally decreased with soil depth. Soils under Alnus viridis showed significantly higher amounts of particulate organic matter and stored more lignin, organic carbon and total nitrogen in particulate form in all soil depths. Sites dominated by Eriophorum vaginatum exhibited higher lignin content and lower degradation state in the subsoil, which was associated with water saturation and low active layer depth. We conclude that the effect of vegetation changes on soil organic matter cycling is dependent on plant species with the encroachment of Alnus viridis shrubs potentially increasing the deposition of particulate organic matter into permafrost soils
