‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)
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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Mother of God, Mother of Christianity: The Development of the Marian Tradition in Early Modern Japan
The Christian figure of the Virgin Mary, first introduced as Jesus’ mother in the Bible, has since been repeatedly reinterpreted in various roles and imagery through her incorporation into different cultures. This project analyses the historical adoption
Keller, Alaina
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Rebuilding the Ladder? Contemporary Contests Over Industrial Policy
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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ABSTRACT This article adds a geoeconomics dimension to the geopolitics‐focused middle power literature that generally depicts Malaysia as an ambivalent middle power, especially from the identity and behavioral perspectives, even if the country's middle power status stands on stronger capability indicators.
Helen E. S. Nesadurai
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Re-reading gender: comparative questions, situated meanings, Latin American paradoxes [PDF]
Redclift, ESN
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The Rhetoric and Performativity of Light in the Sacred Space: A Case Study of The Vision of St. Peter of Alexandria / Риторика и перформативность света в сакральном пространстве: Видение св. Петра Александрийского [PDF]
Light is most pervasive in the sacred space because, in addition to its natural qualities, it can be associated with spiritual and miraculous light, and it is often understood as an attribute of the holy.1 In order to understand the role of light in the ...
Bogdanović, Jelena, Bogdanović, Jelena
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
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Betwixt and Between: The Cult of Living Saints in Contemporary Bulgaria [PDF]
Ivanov, Petko, Izmirlieva, Valentina
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The McKinleys of Punch: Politics and the Press in Melbourne, 1870s to 1920s
This article re‐examines the Melbourne Punch (1855–1925; known simply as Punch from 1900) as a political weapon in the cut‐and‐thrust of Victorian, local, and national politics, in the hands of its longest‐serving, but least‐known proprietor, Alexander McKinley (1848–1927).
Richard Scully
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Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China
Abstract Civilian‐led coups are one of the most common routes to losing power in autocracies. How do authoritarian leaders secure themselves from civilian leadership challenges? We argue that autocrats differentiate civilian rivals in part by their social ties to the military.
Tyler Jost, Daniel Mattingly
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