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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limited and biased global conservation funding means most threatened species remain unsupported. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Guénard B   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nezihe Muhiddin and the Struggle for Women’s Franchise. The Defeat of Feminism by Nationalism in Early Republican Turkey

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article focuses on Nezihe Muhiddin, a pioneering figure in Turkish–Ottoman first‐wave feminism, who sought to secure women's political rights by attempting to establish the Women's People Party in 1923, over a decade before women gained suffrage.
Barbara Dell’Abate Çelebi
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Evidence for the ongoing biodiversity crisis rests on assessment of a small fraction of described species, with major knowledge gaps for most organisms, including plants. Here, we highlight how digitised herbarium specimens can be used to accelerate and improve estimates of recent and ongoing plant extinctions.
Aelys M. Humphreys   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Celebrity to Advance Equality

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
wiley   +1 more source

What personality traits do citizens want politicians to have? Observational and experimental evidence of citizens' preferences in three countries

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians' personality is believed to play a central role in their electoral success. It is unclear, however, how important different traits are to voters and how the impact of personality compares to that of other well‐studied individual characteristics of politicians, such as gender, age, and political experience.
Thomas Bergeron   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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