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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 35-68, March 2026.
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
wiley   +1 more source

Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
wiley   +1 more source

Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
wiley   +1 more source

Deification of Technology and the Dignity of the Human Person

open access: yesCommunications, 2017
Technology empowers and enslaves at the same time. Given our proneness to misjudgment and abuse of power, the dangers of technological failure and catastrophe are well known and often discussed.
Pavel Hanes, Bram de Muynck
doaj   +1 more source

THE SLOW DEATHS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE: A Planetary View from Papua New Guinea

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2026.
ABSTRACT How do we tell the stories of climate change? This essay explores the slow violence and death experienced by marginalized, racialized, indigenous bodies as climate change differentially impacts communities across the globe. Paying attention to locations beyond the spectacular events that have come to be associated with climate change, the ...
JAMON ALEX HALVAKSZ II
wiley   +1 more source

Believing Processes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Wagner-Skacel J   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Believing processes around COVID-19 vaccination: An exploratory study investigating workers in the health sector. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychiatry, 2022
Fleischmann E   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Catechetical School in Alexandria

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2015
During her Golden Era, Alexandria, the Delta City of Egypt, was the pride of Africa in that she was larger than the two other world cities of the Roman Empire Rome and Antioch and also the unrivalled intellectual centre of the (Greco-)Roman world. Her schools, including the Didaskaleion the Catechetical School outshone the schools of her rivals
openaire   +4 more sources

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