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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
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
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How does the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB) present the stories of the youngest participants in the Second World War? What role do children play in the narrative of the museum?
Marcin Zaborski
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Abstract In contrast to the wealth of literature on the gendered and sexual politics of Indian nationalism, studies on the internationalisation of Indian anti‐colonial nationalism are rarely informed by the twin themes of gender and sexuality. As Indian activists traversed international political spaces in the early twentieth century, they frequently ...
Joanna Simonow
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Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Framing European Heritage and Identity: Cultural Policy Instruments of the European Union
Abstract This submission examines the impact of the European Union (EU) policy efforts to construct a European Heritage and a sense of belonging within the wider European population on Heritage policy. The article explores how the EU has selected and wielded instruments that frame particular values that (1) respond to specific policy problems and ...
Anthony R. Zito, Susannah Eckersley
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Not what we expected: the Jewish Museum Berlin in practice
An extensive existing literature studies Daniel Libeskind’s deconstructivist design for the Jewish Museum Berlin (JMB). This article focuses instead on the museum’s exhibits from 2001 to today, their evolution in response to visitor criticisms, and their
Peter Chametzky
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La música que salvó vidas. Holocausto, Música y Educación
A través del análisis y la recolección de los relatos procedentes de supervivientes del Holocausto, este artículo presenta una investigación social y educativa sobre el papel que jugó la música durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, concretamente en campos ...
Rocío González Cabello +3 more
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A gentrification stage‐model for London? Through the ‘looking Glass’ of Kensington
Short Abstract Despite the term ‘gentrification’ being coined in London by the British sociologist Ruth Glass, there has not been an attempt to develop a stage model of gentrification for London, nor any up‐to‐date discussion of the different waves of gentrification there in one academic paper or book.
Loretta Lees, Sharda Rozena
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100 years of GAMM: Motivation, history and achievements
Abstract The International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM) was founded in 1923 with the goal to strengthen the field of scientific engineering by the foundation of an Engineering Association with strong scientific contacts to Applied Mathematics.
Wolfgang Ehlers
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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
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