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Urban history and modernity in Central Europe [PDF]
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]
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
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]
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
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
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
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]
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]
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
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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