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Politics, geopolitics, and the history of science: on James Secord's "Inventing the scientific revolution". [PDF]
Barahona A +9 more
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Introduction to the special issue: Global South histories of madness - new perspectives on mental troubles and psychiatry from Latin America and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. [PDF]
Favier I, Tiquet R.
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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English or Perish? The Value of Linguistic Capital in the Social Sciences and Humanities. [PDF]
Larregue J, Pavie A.
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ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
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How Stroke Shaped the Course of History: An Uchronian Narrative Review. [PDF]
De Rubeis G +5 more
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