Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
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
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Five levels of famine prevention: towards a framework for the twenty-first century and beyond. [PDF]
Howe P, Fitzpatrick M, Maxwell D.
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
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
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THE ‘OTHERS’ OF TENT CITIES: Reconstruction of Social Order Through Emotions
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
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The needed link between open science and science diplomacy-A Latin American perspective. [PDF]
Camacho Toro R+11 more
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Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism
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
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Political Prioritization of Access to Medicines and Right to Health: Need for an Effective Global Health Governance Through Global Health Diplomacy Comment on "More Pain, More Gain! The Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines and the Pharmaceutical Industry's Role in Widening the Access Gap". [PDF]
Kumar Chattu V+2 more
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Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance
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
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Neocolonialism and science diplomacy: personal reflections from the Middle East on mental health policy and practice. [PDF]
Dabbagh NT.
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