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Guises of Despair

open access: yes
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Béatrice Han‐Pile
wiley   +1 more source

Disconsolate Suffering: Joe Sacco's Comics Journalism and the Ambivalence of Humanitarian Witnessing

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Through a close reading of Joe Sacco's seminal work of graphic journalism, Palestine, this article argues that Sacco unsettles the consoling effects of mass media by disrupting dominant narratives of difference, otherness, and spectacularized violence.
Bryant Scott
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

The Orthodox Church and Religious Minorities in Shida Kartli Region in Georgia in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century

open access: yes, 2017
We think that it is of utmost importance to disclose the facts about the uncommon treatment that took place during Soviet rule in the 1920s towards the Georgian Orthodox Church and all the other religious ...
Sosiashvili, PhD, Giorgi
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Multinational Cultural Heritage In The Landscape Of Contemporary Poland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Published in: Society and Space in Contemporary Poland in Łódź University Geographical Research, edited by T.MarszałIt should also be noted that in recent years, we have been noticing the foreign influences and have not been bothered by the non-Polish ...
Kulesza, Mariusz
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Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism: The Case of Polish Far‐Right Activists in Britain

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this ...
Rafal Soborski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dva příběhy z kriminálního podsvětí – padělatelé peněz na hradě Žampachu a přepadání Židů v roce 1542

open access: yesTheatrum Historiae, 2010
On around June 20th 1542, near Chlumec nad Cidlinou (at that time the estate of Jan of Pernštejn) two suspects were arrested: Jan Krška and the tavern-keeper Pavel of Nový Hrádek (district of Náchod).
František Šebek
doaj  

‘Liberation’ of ‘Younger Brothers’ or Genocide of Subhumans? Genocidal Discourses on Ukrainians in Putin's Regime

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
wiley   +1 more source

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