Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-17DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.007
Vasily Borovoy
This article proposes a novel interpretation of the European North of Russia as an arena of timber colonialism of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. It does so by looking at the formative decades of the regional timber economy when it grew increasingly connected to and dependent on the European timber markets. This article studies the composition of the regional population and forests, legal regimes of governance, occupational structure, rising inequality, intermediaries, and the early Soviet continuum of these developments. I argue that Northern Russia was treated by imperial, public and economic actors as a timber colony, while colonialism was provided in great diversity of forms depending on the composition of population, legal regimes, skill sets, and resources at stake. By doing so, the empire and capitalism co-created each other in the colonial setting of a commodity frontier – a timber frontier in the case of the European North of Russia. This article also tests the usability of the colonial approach to the study of a region otherwise lacking the formal properties of a colony.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-07-05DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2025.2528064
Qian Shen, Xueyan Gao, Xiaomeng Xiong
Background: The rising number of academic retractions has drawn increasing attention across the academic community. With the availability of large-scale retraction data from Crossref and Retraction Watch, systematic analysis of academic retractions has become feasible.Methods: This study examines all retracted academic publications from the 21st century up to June 4th, 2025. By using BERTopic, Apriori, and data visualization techniques, we've conducted a comprehensive analysis across six subjects with over 6,000 retractions of each subject.Results and conclusions: Our findings detail retraction counts, durations, topic trends, author nationalities, publishers, retraction reasons, and associations among these factors. The overall number of retractions has been continuously rising, with sharp increases in 2010 and 2020 to 2023, and the peak occurring in 2023. The primary reasons for retractions in biomedical studies are paper mills and issues with data and images, with third parties being the main initiators of investigations. In computer science and technology, retractions are mainly due to referencing and attribution issues, as well as unreliable results, with journals, conferences, and publishers often initiating the investigations. We also offer some suggestions that can help monitor research misconduct in academic publications.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-08DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2026.103971
Ӧzge Güney , Antonella Gazzardi
This study investigated instructional videos of English on two most popular YouTube channels (Lily and Maria) to explore how native speakerism is employed as a marketing strategy. We used multimodal content analysis to examine the titles and thumbnails of videos (n = 268 from Maria and n = 316 from Lily), which play a significant role in persuading the audience to watch videos. The findings showed that the YouTubers employed native speakerism most commonly as part of a digital marketization process under the influence of neoliberalism in the ELT industry. The YouTubers encourage learners to emulate native speaker performance in diverse areas from vocabulary to accent, grammar, culture and pragmatics. They promote mainstream Englishes as the norm through their discourse of the Self and the Others and semiotic tools such as national flags. The words native speaker, American, and British have become buzzwords for greater visibility and attention on these channels. The study offers implications for teacher education, teachers, online content creators, and learners interested in interacting with instructional videos of English on social media.
本研究调查了两个最受欢迎的YouTube频道（Lily和Maria）上的英语教学视频，以探索母语主义是如何被用作营销策略的。我们使用多模态内容分析来检验视频的标题和缩略图（n = 268来自Maria， n = 316来自Lily），它们在说服观众观看视频方面发挥了重要作用。研究结果表明，在新自由主义的影响下，在英语教学行业中，youtube用户最常使用母语，这是数字市场化进程的一部分。youtuber鼓励学习者在词汇、口音、语法、文化和语用等各个领域模仿母语人士的表现。他们通过自我和他者的话语以及国旗等符号学工具，将主流英语作为规范来推广。“母语人士”、“美国人”和“英国人”已经成为这些频道上的流行词汇，以提高知名度和关注度。该研究为教师教育、教师、在线内容创作者以及对社交媒体上的英语教学视频感兴趣的学习者提供了启示。
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2026.01.003
Max D. Woodworth
This essay explores the development of so-called Military Dependent Villages (MDVs, 眷村) in Taiwan from 1950 through the 1990s. MDVs were built for married military personnel and their families following the Kuomintang's 1949 retreat to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War. As walled residential compounds dotted throughout Taiwan, MDVs were exclusive spaces steeped in the Kuomintang's anti-Communist mission and later its halting commitment to the internal development of Taiwan. The temporary-turned-permanent presence of MDVs in Taiwan reflects accommodation with new sovereign territory and attendant postwar social transformations. Through the concept of “geopolitical enclaves,” this paper explores MDVs through the lens of their spatiality - their morphological variety, their geographical distribution, their aesthetic elements, and waves of upgrades and reforms – to show how the spaces were integral to the ROCs far-reaching social, political, and economic changes after retreat to Taiwan in 1949. The paper reconsiders the idea of geopolitics through the links connecting intimate household-level experiences to great-power politics in East Asia during the Cold War and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-02-05DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2026.100977
Elisabetta Adami
This paper examines social media content creators’ practices development over time and across platforms, through the case of @foodqood, an Italy-based food content creator who achieved megainfluencer status. An integrated multimodal time–space-interaction analysis of the creator’s 3-year long production on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube maps shifts in semiotic resources and audience engagement. Findings identify three phases in the creator’s practices, showing a trajectory from experimentation to institutionalisation. Changes through time and variations across spaces, cross-checked with followers’ prompts and responses, reveal shifts in identity performances and prioritised audience segments. The time–space-interaction analysis evidences complex dynamics of influence between grassroots and institutional practices, and between agency in sign-making and dominant semiotic regimes, including ethnoracialised linguistic ideologies. The study advances a social semiotic approach that includes translanguaging for the analysis of translocality. Using provenance to identify the cultural dimensions in semiotic assemblages allows for nuanced considerations of the import of dimensions such as lifestyles and space-specific affiliations alongside geopolitical and ethnolinguistic provenances. It mitigates the risks of unbalanced analyses towards named languages, and reductionist interpretations of cultural phenomena solely/chiefly along a geopolitically-defined local–global continuum. The study addresses gaps in research on content creators by integrating a longitudinal perspective to multimodal analysis. It also raises questions regarding the (self-)exploitation and (self-)erasure of minoritized identities in social media ecosystems increasingly shaped by corporate interests.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-02-12DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2026.101028
Zaibo Long , Jinfen Xu
L2 learners’ engagement with written feedback is pivotal to realizing feedback’s learning potential. Over the past decade, this construct has attracted growing scholarly attention; however, relatively little work has been done to theorize feedback engagement, particularly how individual and contextual factors interact to shape it. To address this gap, this article conceptualizes L2 written feedback engagement from an ecological perspective. Specifically, it synthesizes how engagement has been defined and operationalized in the literature, noting how the increasing use of generative AI has prompted an expanded conceptualization of feedback engagement. Drawing on affordance theory and the nested ecosystems model, the article characterizes engagement as multifaceted, dynamic, and context-sensitive, especially where teacher, peer, automated, and generative-AI feedback coexist. It further sketches future directions for ecological work, including longitudinal and multi-source designs, explicit modelling of person–context interactions, and methodological innovations to reveal underlying mechanisms. Overall, this article aims to deepen researchers’ and teachers’ understanding of feedback engagement and to inform context-responsive interventions that support learners’ engagement with written feedback.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.12.003
Tim Cole
The existing literature on the Equal Justice Initiative's National Memorial for Peace and Justice tends to draw on site visits made to Montgomery soon after the 2018 opening and so does not discuss the changes that have taken place at the site and elsewhere. This article addresses this gap by offering a longitudinal study of the EJI's evolving memorialisation of lynchings, focusing specifically on their changing scalar emphasis that ranges from the nation, through the county and city to the body. As well as broadening the chronology to signal the dynamic nature of this memorial, it moves beyond the NMPJ and Montgomery to place this within a wider assemblage that includes over a hundred of state historical markers erected across America. Although historical markers have recently attracted the attention of historical geographers, scholars have not paid attention to the EJI's use of this traditional memorial form within their wider memory work, including replicating these within the NMPJ since 2022. Alongside this empirical contribution, the article argues for the need to pay attention to the epistemologies of scale in memory work. The NMPJ and historical markers represent not only different monumental forms in different places, but also different scales of memory work.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-03-26DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2025.2483311
Jole Shackelford
When American experimental psychologists began to study activity cycles in the early twentieth century, their research methods and interpretations of experimental results were guided by a commitment to behaviourism and neglected the work of biological rhythms researchers, now called chronobiologists, who approached behaviours from physiological and ecological perspectives, exploring activity and other rhythmic behaviours as governed by innate organic stimuli, biological clocks. The epistemological gap that developed between rhythms researchers and behavioural psychologists can be seen already in the work of Maynard S. Johnson and Curt P. Richter, both working with rodents in the 1920s and 1930s. This gap persisted into the 1960s, when psychologists began to realize that biological clocks help to explain some of their experimental results. This epistemological gap is plain from psychologists' reaction to the 1963 work of Michael Treisman, who was credited 50 years later with discovering the biological clock in humans, despite more than half a century of effort to study rhythms and locate clocks; recognition in the mid-1960s that clock-controlled circadian rhythms were useful in psychology began to close this gap.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2026-01-26DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2026.101018
İdil Sayın , Hacer Hande Uysal
This study examines whether analytic writing traits function equivalently across diverse thematic prompt categories for English language learners (ELLs). We utilized the ELLIPSE Corpus, which contains 6482 essays written by ELLs in response to 44 prompts during standardized annual testing in the United States. These essays were organized into six thematic prompt categories. To estimate the students’ underlying writing ability, we employed a unidimensional Item Response Theory (IRT) model. Subsequently, we conducted Differential Feature Functioning (DFF) analysis using a step-by-step ordinal logistic regression framework based on IRT. DFF analysis revealed that while Vocabulary and Grammar show statistically detectable category-related variation, effect sizes were negligible, indicating no practical impact on score interpretation. A more focused, category-by-category DFF analysis identified minor DFF in Cohesion, Vocabulary, and Grammar across the Education, Personal Development, and Society and Social Life categories, yet effects remained practically negligible. Diagnostic plots further confirmed the stability of trait functioning across prompt categories. Comprehensive sensitivity analyses supported the robustness of these findings. These results support the fairness and comparability of analytic trait-based scoring for ELL writing assessments. The study contributes to equitable writing assessment practice by offering evidence-based guidance for fair prompt design, targeted rater training, and rubric refinement.
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Pub Date : 2026-04-01Epub Date: 2025-12-04DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2025.11.008
Lotte Jensen , Adriaan Duiveman
This article proposes a novel theoretical framework for the study of cultural resilience in the context of historical disasters. Defined as the cultural practices by which communities cope with current calamities, past disasters, and possible future threats, cultural resilience can be divided into four basic elements: sense-making, charity, commemoration, and – as a result of the previous three – community building. We further distinguish both social and temporal dimensions. The social dimension pertains directly to those communities involved with the disaster, whereas the temporal dimension refers to the way in which sense-making, charity, and commemorative practices relate, not only to the past and the present, but also the future. The framework is illustrated with two historical case studies: eighteenth-century conflagrations – the devastating fires that befell several Dutch towns – and the 1953 North Sea Flood.
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