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A Relational Perspective on Land in Armed Conflict: Analysing the Village Guard Mobilisation in Turkey

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor, Adnan Çelik, Ayhan Işık, Joost Jongerden   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humanities in transition: Liberation of knowledge in Central Asia and the potential role of the European Union [PDF]

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Jonboboev, Sunatullo
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This commentary appreciates Hamish Kallin's (2024) account of the prospects for reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches via engaging Henri Lefebvre's work, but signals equivocation about Lefebvre triggered by his depictions of colonialism, Islam and the tropics. I argue that these are inconsistent with ongoing decolonial moves
James D. Sidaway
wiley   +1 more source

Developing an Islamic world view: An essential component of an Islamic education [PDF]

A traditional Islamic education develops an Islamic outlook to life but does not prepare the student assimilate developments over the past three or four centuries, in particular Western knowledge.
Zaman, Asad
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The chatbot's real self: On the archaeology of artificial personas Le vrai soi du chatbot: vers une archéologie des personnes artificielles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract From the beginning of widespread public interactions with ChatGPT and other large language models, some users have seen the disfluencies of chatbots as opportunities for them to go on an archaeological search for an unfettered chatbot persona that they need to jailbreak. These are not claims of sentience, but rather of personhood.
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

How golden age Arab-Islamic scholars revolutionized sleep physiology and dream analysis. [PDF]

J Taibah Univ Med Sci
BaHammam AS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic.
Chantal Tetreault, Alexandrine Barontini, Kiana Sakimehr   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Development and Progress of Health Information Technology in Iran. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Balaghafari A, Siamian H.
europepmc   +1 more source

‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation

British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract This study employed critical discursive and rhetorical psychology to analyse the discourses drawn upon to justify an arguably violent protest outside a previously disused hotel in rural Ireland, where 34 male asylum seekers had been accommodated.
Alastair Nightingale, Sarah Jay
wiley   +1 more source