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Trauma as a Tool: Hyperinflation Narratives in German Fiscal Policy Debates on European Monetary Integration

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The idea that the German public continues to suffer from the collective trauma of the experiences of hyperinflation in 1923 remains a prominent theme in Germany's public discourse. As such, it is often invoked when explaining the country's peculiar stability culture – its aversion to inflation and preference for stability‐oriented monetary and
David Barkhausen
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El comunismo: utopía, mito, imaginario en la obra historiográfica de Lucian Boia

open access: yesDiacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2018
The success of communist “mythology”, its relative but undeniable success, – even stupefied, if it is related to its precarious material support – cannot be understood but in a long-term sense of history and, first of all, from the perspective of the ...
Miguel Ángel GÓMEZ MENDOZA es doctor en Historia Universidad Paris III-Sorbona Nueva. Actualmente es Profesor titular de la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira-Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación-Maestría en Historia. Entre sus publicaciones recientes en el campo de la historia: «Debates históricos y filosóficos en la enseñanza de los temas socialmente controvertidos», in Revista Praxis & Saber, 7, 13, 2016, pp. 15-44; ROMERO LOAIZA, Fernando, ALZATE PIEDRAHITA, María Victoria (junto con), «La enseñanza racional y sistemática en Colombia: el caso de la aritmética en la obra escolar de G. M. Bruño (1900-1930)», in Revista Historia y Sociedad, 29, 2015, pp. 84-96.
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Of Monsters and Men: A Comparison of Greek and Norse Mythology in the Western Canon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Greek literature has long been considered the most valuable to Western culture, and it has been held up through the ages as a literary exemplar. While the western literary canon has often been revised and added to, we have never truly questioned the ...
Morrow, Amber
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Framing European Heritage and Identity: Cultural Policy Instruments of the European Union

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This submission examines the impact of the European Union (EU) policy efforts to construct a European Heritage and a sense of belonging within the wider European population on Heritage policy. The article explores how the EU has selected and wielded instruments that frame particular values that (1) respond to specific policy problems and ...
Anthony R. Zito, Susannah Eckersley
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НUMAN HISTORY AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN THE ESCHATOLOGICAL MYTHS

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015
The paper in itself is a part of the research of the cosmogonical and eschatological mythology of the North Europian peoples (the Germanic world) in comparison to the Vedantic and Hinduistic mythology, the mythology of Mesoamerican peoples, the peoples ...
E. D. Marinova
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\u3cem\u3eThe Chronicles of Narnia\u3c/em\u3e, and How C.S. Lewis Created Christian Fantasy Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
C.S. Lewis was a pioneer in combining the ideas of fantasy and Christian literature, before the fantasy genre alone was even acknowledged. Christian fantasy fiction, as a fiction sub-genre, can be identified as a piece of fiction with fantastical ...
Callow, Amanda
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A translated utopia: Embodied communication, media ideologies, and Star Trek's Universal Translator

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses Star Trek's “Universal Translator” (UT) as a point of departure for considering the imagined future of mediated linguistic interactions and of contact across difference. Although such a technology does not exist, taking its potentialities seriously as folkloric devices allows for an exploration of ideologies relating to ...
Sarah Shulist
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Indigeneity, caste, tribe and the limitations of decolonial thought in South Asian socio‐legal studies: The need for a decolonial–debrahmanical approach

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The dominant decolonial approach in Adivasi studies and South Asian socio‐legal studies is broadly and primarily rooted in a critical study of the British colonial rule, epistemologies, laws and institutions, as they are considered to be the roots of social, cultural, religious, legal and political challenges faced by post‐colonial India ...
ARVIND KUMAR
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