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Literary Modernity in Late Qajar Era Press [PDF]
While literary modernity in Iran had national underpinnings and was brought about by changes in the economic and political relations and infrastructures of the country, it was also influenced by the knowledge of Western literature, and Iranian ...
Mohammad Reza Haji-Agha Babaie
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Geopolitics of Papal Traveling: (Re)Constructing a Catholic Landscape in Europe
For the popes, traveling has developed into a key instrument for mobilizing masses, spreading messages, and shaping public Catholic identities. Traveling ranks high within the papal efforts to (re)construct a Catholic landscape in Europe. Thus, comparing
Mariano P. Barbato
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Europe and the emergence of modernity. The entanglement of two reference cultures [PDF]
This article offers a theory of the notion ‘reference culture’ by taking as major examples modernity and Europe. Both constitute reference cultures and while different are closely related.
Delanty, Gerard
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Modernity and Sustainability [PDF]
Since always sociology disclaimed about the role of science and technique. First, it used to analyse the firms, making some critics, during their period of the highest expansion and industrialisation, and later focussing on their unpredictability and ...
Senatore, Gianluca
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The study explores the notion of ‘Modernity’ in the two texts Ten Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019) and Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing (2007), written by British Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.
Huma Saeed
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Book Review: Paul Michael Garrett, Social work and social theory: Making connections. The Policy Press: Bristol, 2013, ISBN 9781847429605 [PDF]
It is important to state at the outset that I enjoyed this book, or at least large sections of it, but I also found it rather frustrating. The book is made up of 11 chapters and following an introductory chapter, is split into two parts.
Parton, Nigel
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Modernity, Its Crisis and Islamic Revivalism
Modernity is a global condition of an ongoing socio-cultural, economic, and political transformation of human experience, with tradition or religion having no significant role to play.
Jan A. Ali
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Brazil: Modernity and Mobility [PDF]
This essay examines the field of Brazilian mobility studies, concentrating mainly on recent (2010-2013) scholarship by Portuguese-speaking Brazilian academics published in English-language journals. The mass demonstrations and violent protests that have
Cooper, Martin
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On handling urban informality in southern Africa [PDF]
In this article I reconsider the handling of urban informality by urban planning and management systems in southern Africa. I argue that authorities have a fetish about formality and that this is fuelled by an obsession with urban modernity.
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eHindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
A book review of Hindu-Catholic Encounters in Goa: Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity, by Alexander ...
Johnston, P. J.
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