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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
wiley   +1 more source

Cymbopogon citratus and Citral Overcome Doxorubicin Resistance in Cancer Cells via Modulating the Drug's Metabolism, Toxicity, and Multidrug Transporters. [PDF]

Molecules, 2023
Mukhtar MH, El-Readi MZ, El-Readi MZ, Elzubier ME, Fatani SH, Refaat B, Shaheen U, Adam Khidir EB, Taha HH, Eid SY.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

European Identity and the Euro in Kosovo

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can nationalist leaders stand for political independence and monetary sovereignty while embracing the use of a supra‐national currency? At first sight, unilateral euroisation—the de facto adoption of the euro instead of a national currency—seems inconsistent with the goals of nationalism and independence.
Nicola Nones
wiley   +1 more source

Dread in the Homeland: Symbolic Politics and Ethnonationalist Struggles for Self‐Determination in Nigeria

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The revival of Biafran separatism in contemporary Nigeria is often explained with three leading theoretical frameworks: relative deprivation, political economy and state repression. Whereas relative deprivation and political economy perspectives posit that the resurgent separatism derives from the perception and empirical reality of ...
Promise Frank Ejiofor
wiley   +1 more source

The Struggle of Kosovo Policymakers to Upgrade the Law on Religious Affairs

, 2019
Apart from guarantees over freedom of religion, in the last two decades, authorities in Kosovo have made little progress in advancing its legal framework to accommodate the emerging needs of religious communities.
Mehmeti, Jeton
core  

Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries, Stefanos Kordosis, Richard Turcsányi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Revival of Islam

Policy Perspectives
This paper argues that reviving Islam and Islamic values is a prerequisite for liberating the Muslim society, particularly Muslim youth from the clutches of colonization, which continue to haunt the majority of the Muslim world, even in the Postcolonial era.
openaire   +2 more sources

Explicit Tolerance and Implicit Exclusion: A Study on National Identity in Sweden

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While people in many Western countries report increasingly tolerant and inclusive attitudes, minorities continue to face considerable, and in some cases growing, discrimination and exclusion. In this paper, I propose that the gap may stem from a discrepancy between explicit attitudes and more automatic, implicit attitudes. Most people may want
Filip Olsson
wiley   +1 more source

The Mosque of the Blessed Tree in Safawi, Jordan

Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism
The Mosque of the Blessed Tree in Mafraq, Jordan represents a revival of Islamic architectural heritage. Situated near an ancient terebinth tree where the Prophet Muhammad is believed to have rested, the mosque was erected according to traditional ...
Maher Azmi Abu-samra, Safa’ Joudeh
doaj   +1 more source

Strain, procedures, and tools for reproducible genetic transformation and genome editing of the emerging plant model Spirodela polyrhiza

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Duckweeds (Lemnaceae) have excellent potential for fundamental and applied research due to ease of cultivation, small size, and continuous fast clonal growth. However, their usage as model organisms and platforms for biotechnological applications is often limited by the lack of universal genetic manipulation methods necessary for transgene ...
Verónica Barragán‐Borrero, Amanda de Santana Lopes, Enrico Diniz Rodrigues Batista, Martin Höfer, Rana Elias, Abhisek Chakraborty, Arturo Ponce‐Mañe, Clotilde Descombes, Laura Diezma‐Navas, Lydia Petraki, Meret Huber, Shuqing Xu, Arturo Marí‐Ordóñez   +12 more
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