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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
wiley   +1 more source

Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

THE ‘OTHERS’ OF TENT CITIES: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Following the earthquakes in Türkiye on 6 February 2023, survivors continued their daily lives in tent cities, which emerged as a new heterotopic space where the boundaries between public and private spheres became intertwined. The transition from one's own ‘castle’ to a communal living space filled with uncertainties has heightened the ...
Handan Akyigit   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The needed link between open science and science diplomacy-A Latin American perspective. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Res Metr Anal
Camacho Toro R   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the last decade, the “decolonial turn” has gained prominence across academic disciplines, challenging inherent Eurocentric knowledge paradigms. Extending these conversations, this paper critically investigates the notion of “the global” from a decolonial perspective.
Minwoo Jung
wiley   +1 more source

Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a variety of conceptions of the public role that sociology ought to play. Perhaps the most common one presents it as serving a critical or oppositional function, not least in relation to governments and their policies. Yet this has by no means always been the dominant conception of sociology's role. In his well‐known typology, Michael
Martyn Hammersley
wiley   +1 more source

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