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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
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
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
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
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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
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
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
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Deification of Technology and the Dignity of the Human Person
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
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THE SLOW DEATHS FROM CLIMATE CHANGE: A Planetary View from Papua New Guinea
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
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Learning About Credition: Exploring the Barriers Between Basic and Applied Research. [PDF]
Madzarevic D.
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Believing Processes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis. [PDF]
Wagner-Skacel J +13 more
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Believing processes around COVID-19 vaccination: An exploratory study investigating workers in the health sector. [PDF]
Fleischmann E +11 more
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The Catechetical School in Alexandria
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
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