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This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept
This paper introduces the special issue of Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, entitled “Ideophones: honing in on a descriptive and typological concept”, edited by Aimée Lahaussois, Julie Marsault and Yvonne Treis.
Julie Marsault +2 more
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Le « Rassemblement féminin » (1945-1951) : à la croisée des différents réseaux de Paulette Nardal
Cette étude exploratoire propose d’interroger l’interconnexion des différents réseaux dans lesquels les sœurs Nardal évoluent, en particulier l’aînée, Paulette Nardal : ceux « hérités » de sa mère Louise Nardal, ceux constitués à Paris dans l’entre-deux ...
Clara Palmiste
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Nature's Ambiguous Sex: The Body as a Feminist Resource in German Naturism Around 1900
ABSTRACT While gender relations around 1900 were generally marked by sharp dichotomies grounded in nature and the body, the case of naturism appears paradoxical. An influential movement in Germany, it promoted a reform of the body according to natural principles.
Johannes Bosch
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Cet article documente les pratiques discursives à l’égard du geste suicidaire dans les premiers tabloïds hebdomadaires parus au Québec dans le second quart du 20e siècle.
Alexandre Pelletier-Audet
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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Legitimacy and Persuasion in the Anglo‐Scottish Wars of the 1540s
Abstract The considerable efforts of the invading English to justify their activities and garner support during the Anglo‐Scottish wars of the 1540s are well known. Recent welcome attention to Scottish texts produced during the conflict has begun to correct a previous historiographical imbalance towards English materials.
Amy Blakeway
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
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Abstract From the mid‐1950s onward, Hungarian engineers became deeply involved in the rapidly expanding technoscientific internationalism of the period, notably through their participation in several international scholarly associations devoted to both scientific and technical disciplines.
Jules Siran
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