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The Making of a ‘Kumauni’ Artifact: The Epic Malushahi [PDF]
This essay will look at the making of the social imaginary of Kumaun through the study of print media and the performance practice of a popular ballad from the region: Malushahi.
Pande, Vasudha
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Abstract Decolonial theory (DT) has been advanced as a strategy for decolonisation alternative to 20th‐century anticolonialism, positioning decolonisation as an epistemic project rather than a historical‐material one. Here, I examine DT's arguments about anticolonialism: that it had a dogmatic bias towards nationalism and postcolonial state formation ...
Lavanya Nott
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The Medical and Literary Intelligentsia in the 1917–1921 Ukrainian Revolution
The relevance of this study lies in the fact that the analysis of the processes of evolution of the views of the old literary and medical intelligentsia in the period of the 1917–1921 Ukrainian Revolution suggests answers to the fundamental question of
V. M. Sheyko
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21st-century scholarship and Wikipedia [PDF]
Wikipedia, the world’s fifth most-used Web site, is a good illustration of the growing credibility of online resources. In his article in Ariadne earlier this year, “Wikipedia: Reflections on Use and Academic Acceptance”, Brian Whalley described the ...
Thomas, Amber
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Internationalism as Encounter: Grassroots Diplomacy on the San Francisco‐to‐Moscow March, 1960–61
Abstract This article discusses the ‘Global March for Peace’ of 1960–61 – an initiative that took a group of activists from San Francisco to Moscow, crossing countries on both sides of the Cold War divide. While the general development of this march is well known, this article offers a fresh perspective in several ways.
SOPHIE SCOTT‐BROWN
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El concepto de intelectual, usado muy frecuentemente, esconde tras su aparente facilidad de uso la complejidad de la realidad socio-política a que se refiere.
Irina Kolotouchkina
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The 'cultural village' of the Solovki Prison Camp: a case of alternative culture? [PDF]
revious research concerning Gulag literature has frequently focused on single authors, who published their books after being incarcerated in concentration camps.
Gullotta, Andrea
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Abstract Situated in the manufacturing and construction industries of Durban, South Africa, this paper presents an ethnographic investigation into non‐unionised labour activism emergent from so‐called “organised crime” linked to the patronage politics of the African National Congress. In doing so, this paper traces a twin process of post‐colonial class
Nicholas Abrams
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INFLUENCE OF «GREAT CRISIS» EPOCH ON EVERYDAY LIFE OF INTELLIGENTSIA IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS IN 1930s
The article studies daily life of provincial intelligentsia in 1930s with the reference to Stavropol and North Caucasus areas. The influence of Stalin epoch of «Great crisis» on daily life of intelligentsia is analyzed. The impact of mobilization economy
E. N. Strekalova
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From dissidents to collaborators: the resurgence and demise of the Russian critical intelligentsia since 1985 [PDF]
This paper investigates the multifaceted universe of Russian intelligentsia and addresses the following, troubling, questions: What caused pro-democratic political dissent to weaken among the intelligentsia in the aftermath of perestrojka?
Peunova, Marina
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