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Urban history and modernity in Central Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This historiographical review discusses recent literature on cities in modern Central Europe – mainly on Berlin and Vienna – which reflects the great variety of approaches to urban history and underlines the importance of urban history for the study of ...
Klautke, E.F.
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Brazil: Modernity and Mobility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
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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Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

open access: yes, 2020
Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements.
M. Löwy, R. Sayre, C. Porter
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Fardid and Nasr on the Confrontation of Western World [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023
Regarding the way of facing the West and modernity, Ahmed Fardid is among the thinkers who, by adopting a philosophical and judgmental approach, rejects modernity, philosophy, and western civilization in its entirety.
Hossein Rouhani
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Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea

open access: yes, 2020
This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and ...
Seungsook Moon
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Unwrapping the Spontaneous Flora: On the Appropriation of Weed Labour

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2018
Part of the raw material accumulation for the medicinal plant industry in Romania is reliant on gathering plants from the so-called spontaneous flora. The imagery of medicinal plants played upon by medicinal plant product manufacturers is often abundant ...
Ábrán Ágota
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Museum Photo Archives and the History of the Art Market: A Digital Approach

open access: yesArts, 2019
Digital images with metadata contain unique potential for research into the history of the art market. The embedding of digital images in a database allows for the possibility of an association with their historical context due to the presence of ...
Lukas Fuchsgruber
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Book Review: Paul Michael Garrett, Social work and social theory: Making connections. The Policy Press: Bristol, 2013, ISBN 9781847429605 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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 in Iran and Turkey: Patterns and Problems [PDF]

open access: yesReligious Inquiries, 2020
Modernity implies ways of social and organizational life that began to improve in seventeenth-century Europe and gradually developed into the rest of the world.
Younes Nourbakhsh
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How does Modernity Taste? Tomatoes in the Societal Change from Modernity to Late Modernity

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2011
The aim of this article is to discuss how changes in tomato food regulation, production and consumption, can be seen as part of a broader societal change from Modernity to Late Modernity.
Lena Ekelund, Håkan Jönsson
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