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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on the largely unexplored epistolary archive of dozens of women who were born or married into military families in northern Italy around the time of the first phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). Building on recent work on early modern agency, patriarchy, networks and emotional communities, the article reconstructs and ...
Stephen Bowd
wiley   +1 more source

Civic Competence of Youth in Europe: Measuring Cross National Variation Through the Creation of a Composite Indicator. [PDF]

Soc Indic Res, 2015
Hoskins B, Saisana M, Villalba CM.
europepmc   +1 more source

CONSULTANCY STATE: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds ...
Matt Birkinshaw, Sanjay Srivastava
wiley   +1 more source

Essence and structure of civic competence of future officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Стаття присвячена визначенню сутності та структури поняття «громадянска компетентність» як особистісного феномена. Здійснено oгляд нaукoвиx дocлiджeнь вітчизняних і зарубіжних вчених та проаналізовано різні підходи до трактування поняття «громадянська ...
Zhurakovskyi, V. V., Жураковський, В. В.   +1 more
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Propaganda: Reinterpreting the Democratic Problem

Constellations, EarlyView.
Siri Sylvan
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why We Shouldn't Trust Institutions: Critical Theory and the Case for Radical Distrust

Constellations, EarlyView.
Zohreh Khoban
wiley   +1 more source

Towards the Democratisation of Care? Insights From Co‐Governance in Local Welfare in Spain and Italy

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The organisation and distribution of care responsibilities represent a central issue in contemporary welfare debates. Although welfare systems have progressively sought to socialise care related risks tackling distribution's inequality, the organisation of care services received less attention.
Francesca Donati, María Jesús Rodríguez‐García   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Educating Early Adolescents for a Sustainable Future With Digital Civic Learning: Moral Self-Concept as a Developmental Catalyst Linking Civic Competencies and Civic Purpose. [PDF]

Dev Sci
Kim S, Lin TJ, Glassman M, Anderman E.
europepmc   +1 more source