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Civilizing Civilization (and beyond)

International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2020
Historical game studies is a nascent field formed around the study of games which engage with discourses about history and the past. Beginning with a prominent object of study in wider games scholarship, Sid Meier's Civilization, historical game studies gradually cohered around several key discursive threads anchored by a small set of focal texts.
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The State of a Civilization

Kybernetes, 2010
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to reveal the mechanism underlying many inexplicable phenomena observed in social organizations and human history by using the general systemic yoyo model.Design/methodology/approachSuch traditional tools as laboratory experiments, calculus‐based methods, quantitative reasoning of microeconomics, and set‐theoretical ...
Yi Lin 0001, Bailey Forrest
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Credit and civilization

British Journal of Sociology, 2003
ABSTRACTThis paper analyses financial credit in order to re‐examine the work of Norbert Elias, particularly his association of interdependency complexity with social discipline, and his approach to contradiction. Following a discussion of these issues, the paper examines Elias's writing on money and explores the emergence of financial credit networks ...
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Global 'civilization politics' with 'civilization value'

Journal of East Asia Security, 2016
Due to the complexity of political and security issues in the international community, the relations between countries are often caught in great trouble caused by contradiction and friction. Such troubles separate human beings as a whole, resulting in an opposite state of human society.
Su, Hao, Zhou, Jiali, Ding, Li
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Civil society and the civilizing mission

2020
This chapter starts with the liberal conception of a "global civil society". The globalization of the concept of civil society is one aspect of the emergent global civil society, for it shows how civil society ideas and languages and institutions are spreading beyond their place of origin into new contexts.
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Toward a New Civilization: Ecological Civilization or Information Civilization

2021
The accelerated progress of modern science and technology and the appearance of global ecological crisis have both made us realize the end of an old age and the arrival of a new one as we are moving from industrial civilization to a new civilization. There are various views as to what defines the new age or civilization and how we should name it.
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Michael Oakeshott on Civility, Civil Society and Civil Association

Political Studies, 2004
Contemporary treatments of ‘civil society’ have struggled to formulate clear and explicit criteria for determining which associations ought to count as part of a truly ‘civil’ society and, conversely, which other kinds of groups a liberal democracy would best avoid.
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Civil Wrongs and Civil Procedure

2020
AbstractThis chapter addresses the significance of civil procedure in private law’s treatment of civil wrongs. It begins by canvassing contemporary private law theory, focusing in particular on the civil recourse theory of tort law. The chapter notes that civil recourse theory incorporates assumptions about private law’s characteristic responses to ...
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Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science

Ambio, 2023
Bing Xue, Hongqing Li, Heiko Thomas
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Civil Society

2009
Abstract Historically the concept of ‘civil society’ has been an almost purely western concept, tied to the political emancipation of European citizens from former ‘feudalistic’ ties, monarchy, and the state during the 18th and 19th centuries.
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