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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda
Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma +2 more
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SELIMBook review of Fletcher, Rachael, Thijs Porck, and Oliver M. Traxel, eds. 2022. Old English Medievalism: Reception in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. Pp. 312. ISBN 9781843846505.
Nelson Goering
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Notes Towards Gritty Fantasy Medievalism, Temporality, and Worldbuilding
Fafnir, 2023 This article discusses gritty fantasy, a fantasy subgenre, which was established in the early 2000s and has since gained a lot of traction. In previous research, gritty fantasy has often been understood as a deconstructive form of fantasy that draws on ...
Anna Bark Persson
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MEDIEVALISMS AND MEDIEVAL TIMES: CONFRONTING CHRONOPOLITICS WITH MEDIEVAL TEXTURES OF TIME
History and Theory, 2023 ABSTRACTThis review essay examines Nadia R. Altschul's discussion of medievalism in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century South America in Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth‐Century South America. She explores a chronopolitics whereby the notion that late medieval Iberia lagged developmentally behind the rest of Europe ...
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Parution: Medievalism in Finland and Russia
, 2022 Reima Välimäki (dir.), Medievalism in Finland and Russia. Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects, Bloomsbury, 2022. Since the end of the Cold War, the Middle Ages has returned to debates about history, culture, and politics in Northern and Eastern ...
Justine BRETON
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Derek Jarman's medieval blood: Queer devotion, affective medicine, and the AIDS Crisis. [PDF]
Postmedieval, 2023 Myerson E.
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Systemic bio‐inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Biodiversity is declining globally while inequity is growing, and poverty rates are not improving. Global sustainable development and conservation initiatives aim to address biodiversity loss and poverty simultaneously. Through text analysis of global biodiversity policies, we identified a consistent narrative that countries with high ...
Conor Waldock +4 more
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Moral Economies of Debt Forgiveness and Enforcement in Postcrisis Iceland
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Who deserves financial relief in times of crisis, and on what grounds? The 2008 collapse of Iceland's banking system prompted state intervention to mitigate household indebtedness, including forbearance, pension withdrawals, repayment adjustments, and debt reductions.
Timothy Heffernan
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Beethoven's death mask and a short history of face masks. [PDF]
Wien Med Wochenschr, 2021 Sedivy R.
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Medievalismi videoludici: come i videogame immaginano e ricreano le guerre medievali
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2023 The aim of the article is to conduct a critical analysis on how some historical videogames recreate and reinterpret medieval wars. The historical games analyzed include highly successful video game sagas such as Age of Empires II, and related expansions,
Andrea OLDANI
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