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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
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Football Matches and Policing: Evidence From London
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the relationship between football matches and crime has been well documented, little is known about whether such events also escalate violent interactions between police officers and civilians. This study addresses that gap by analysing use of force data from the Metropolitan Police Service in London to assess the impact of football ...
Nils Braakmann +3 more
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We impose our minds onto the world. We create artifacts that reflect our intentions to make them. We make social constructions that mirror our collective agreements. We impress value by our valuing. Discomfort with this power to mold the world in our image has led many to reject such mirroring of mind by world, but this would do away with much
Christopher Frugé
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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Titian's Falconer: From Zorzone to Girolamo Cornaro
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The identity of the sitter in Titian's Falconer and the issue of its dating have been subject to a false, yet very influential assumption: that The Falconer should be dated to a point as late as 1537 in order to connect it to the identity of Zorzone Cornaro (1517–1571), son of Girolamo (1485–1551).
Rachel Healy
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The role of scenography in enhancing the learner’s experience in the field of industrial design
Maǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm"If fashion is a language, then it must contain vocabulary and grammar like other languages. There is no unified language for fashion, but some are similar and some are distinct. Each language branches out into many different dialects and accents.
Prof. Dr. Amr Mustafa Obaid Researcher. Nahal Ahmed Hommos
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Jurnal Kajian SeniThis article examines Vietnamese national costumes in international beauty pageants as collaborative creative achievements through which designers and contestants jointly communicate cultural heritage and national identity to global audiences. Drawing on
Oanh Thi Trach Tram
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Spirals of Care: Resisting Paternalism and Palliation in Chronic Homeless Services
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how organizationally supported resistance to paternalism and palliation unfolds on the frontlines of poverty governance. Sociological research shows that poverty in the United States is often managed through paternalist behavioral control or palliative minimalism.
Alexa Damaska
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