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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of spring festival on pregnancy outcomes in patients undergoing first embryo transfer: a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Yang Y   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Whose Nation Is It Anyway? Towards Methodological Cosmopolitanism in Studies of Nationalism and Nation‐Building in Kazakhstan

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholarship on nationalism and nation‐building in Kazakhstan has been dominated by a social constructivist approach that privileges the civic–ethnic dichotomy. Even when critiques of this binary have emerged, they have often substituted proxy categories that reproduce the same dualism.
Rico Isaacs
wiley   +1 more source

Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
wiley   +1 more source

The Ramadan Gambit: The Impact of Fasting on Cognitive Performance

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high‐stakes decision‐making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real‐world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong ...
Samuel Buckland, David Smerdon
wiley   +1 more source

Social Equity Through Women's Empowerment: Women's Participation in Local Politics, Budgeting and Decision‐Making in Bangladesh

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper explores the gender dimensions of social equity and social equity budgeting (SEB) by investigating women's inclusion in local politics, budgeting and decision‐making in Bangladesh. Quotas for women representatives are reserved at each successive level of local government in Bangladesh, and their active participation in local politics
Md Salah Uddin Rajib   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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