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"Hispania, la leyenda": The Myth of Viriatus’ Struggle Transfigured for Television

Communication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2013
“Hispania, la leyenda” is the first Spanish attempt to represent on screen the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula and the resistance led by Viriatus.
Elena Cueto-Asín, David R. George Jr,
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Stavropol Kalmyks in the Swedish Campaign and on Russia’s Western Borders, 1790–1792

Oriental Studies
Introduction. In 1790–1792, Stavropol Kalmyk Host participated in the Russo-Swedish War and patrolled the Belarusian border. The reasons behind the long deployment remain somewhat debatable. Materials and methods.
Ramil N. Rakhimov
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Race in the Metabolic Rift: The Metaphor and Materiality of Whiteness

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1846-1871, September 2025.
Abstract If metabolic rifts are ruptures, chasms, or divisions, what happens inside them? Shifting attention from multi‐scalar socio‐ecological and corporeal metabolisms towards the internal dynamics of rupture, this paper returns to the origins of metabolic thought to see what happens at the bottom of these clefts within nature.
Archie Davies
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Urban Myth : The relationship between surface and substance

, 2012
Through my study and observation of American jewelry house Tiffany, I could notice how the iconic little blue box contains not only jewellery but also the brand’s myth.
Cho, Young geum
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Sacred to the Memory: Relicization and the Cataloging of Franklin Expedition Objects in Museums

Museum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT Between 1818 and 1845, the British Navy sent expeditions to Inuit Nunangat (Canadian Arctic) in search of a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. In 1845, the Franklin Expedition, consisting of 129 officers, crew, and marines, ended in disaster with all 129 lives lost.
Ashley Smith
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Napoleonic Neglect: The Case for Excavating French Theatre of the First Empire

, 2014
The team all gave papers at a curated panel of the International Federation for theatre research world congress which was held at Warwick, July 2014. Professor Jan Clarke chaired the session which was entitled: Napoleonic Neglect: The Case for Excavating
Katherine Astbury
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 591-605, July 2025.
Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
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“Floating Mind”: Art, Nature and Myth [PDF]

, 2012
During my three years of this doctorate programme, I have explored the notion of the ‘floating mind’. In Art Anthropology, Japanese philosopher Nakazawa Shinichi describes the term ‘floating mind’ as something that does not have any specific form, colour
Kang, Eem Yun
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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 471-482, April 2025.
Abstract In this article, I claim that Simón Rodríguez, a 19th‐century Venezuelan thinker, used and reconfigured Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's understanding of amour‐propre to construct a new political foundation for Latin America. He sought to channel it and other sentiments toward productive ends with a social education. In doing so, Rodríguez departs from
Alejandro Castrillón
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