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World War Two Iconoclasm: The Destruction and Reconstruction of memorials to Queen Victoria and Edward VII on the French Riviera

open access: yesE-REA, 2017
This essay explores the process linked to the desecration and subsequent rebuilding of monuments erected on the French Riviera to commemorate the British monarchs who had a positive influence on the development of Menton, Cannes and Nice as coastal ...
Gilles TEULIÉ
doaj   +1 more source

Staging Uncivility, Or, The Performative Politics of Radical Decolonial Iconoclasm

open access: yesKrisis, 2022
In this article I reflect on the deployment of crass vandalism in contemporary decolonial and anti-racist struggles, as exemplified by the recent activist campaign against Belgium’s colonialist patrimony.
Matthias Pauwels
doaj   +1 more source

Book Review:\u3cem\u3ePilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Book Review of Pilgrimage of Awakening: The Extraordinary Lives of Murray and Mary Rogers. By Mary V. T. Cattan.
Prabhu, Joseph
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Effectively Maintained Inequality in Canada Revisited

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 281-298, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The mass expansion of higher education (HE) systems during the 20th century pushed social scientists to theorize how high participation systems continued to reproduce inequalities across socio‐economic lines. One popular theory in sociology, dubbed effectively maintained inequality (EMI), suggests that families from the upper economic strata ...
Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethics of Blindness and the Postmodern Sublime: Levinas and Lyotard

open access: yesВестник Мининского университета, 2017
The excerpt below is the final chapter of M. Jay’s “Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought” concerning the long-term confrontment “iconoclasm vs visual imaginary” within modern European culture.
M. .. Jay, A. V. Khazina, F. V. Nicolai
doaj   +2 more sources

Collaborative diffusion: The dynamics of policy output in COVID‐19 interstate compacts

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 944-970, November 2025.
Abstract Interstate compacts are formal structures through which multiple states work together towards a common goal or shared agenda. Previous research on compacts focuses almost exclusively on the decision to join the compact, leaving questions on post‐formation diffusion patterns unexplored.
Isaac Pollert   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mediating Islamic State| Iconic Socioclasm: Idol-Breaking and the Dawn of a New Social Order

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2020
The Islamic State articulates its claim for legitimate authority through texts, audio messages, and still and moving images. In addition, among the practices employed to classify “genuine” Islam and its boundaries, the destruction of cultural properties
Christoph Günther
doaj  

Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment

open access: yesPanorama, 2020
How do we write histories for works of art that no longer exist? By revealing how an empty pedestal can be full of meaning and how destruction might grow into an act of creation, Wendy Bellion’s new book offers answers to this quandary and forges fresh ...

semanticscholar   +1 more source

The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 438-458, October 2025.
Abstract This article assesses the metaphilosophical significance of the interpretation given to the ontological argument by two Wittgensteinian philosophers: Norman Malcolm and Morris Lazerowitz. Contrary to the usual approach to the subject, I do not consider what the ontological argument reveals about religious language and reasoning, but what it ...
Aleksei Rakhmanin
wiley   +1 more source

Mastering the Body: Reading a Discourse of Embodiment in the Zhuangzi

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The Zhuangzi is one of the most well‐known early Chinese classics. Subversive and iconoclastic, both in terms of its subject matter and narrative style, the text has profoundly influenced the intellectual and literary history of East Asia. First introduced to the West in the late nineteenth century as an early “Daoist” classic, the Zhuangzi ...
Lana Ko
wiley   +1 more source

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