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‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does the greater embrace of industrial policy globally signal the emergence of a New Washington Consensus? We show that the multiplication of industrial policies, while consequential, signals neither normalisation nor consensus. Rather, industrial policy is increasingly the object of contestation over norms and practices of state ...
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Tom Chodor
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Boots in Bowral: The Military Occupation of Bowral and Its Effects on Australian Defence Policy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 13 February 1978, the Governor‐General of Australia signed an order to call out Australian Defence Forces (ADF) to the New South Wales (NSW) country town of Bowral, on the advice of the Federal Executive Council. The troops were deployed to secure the town while it hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting (CHOGRM), which
James Mortensen, Sue Thompson
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Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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