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"None of Them Could Say They Ever Had Seen Them, but Only Had It from Others": Encounters with Animals in Eighteenth-Century Natural Histories of Greenland. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2020 Parish H.
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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A 'Turn to Interdisciplinary Methods' in the Study of Old Norse Mythology and Religion [PDF]
, 2021 Sundqvist, Olof,
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Old Scandinavia in Finnegans wake [PDF]
, 2014 This dissertation focusses on James Joyce’s use of Old Norse-Icelandic religion and mythology, as well as writing about pre-Christian Scandinavia, in Finnegans Wake.
Black, Christopher
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Cultural and Economic Grievances and the Political Salience of Secessionism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does secessionism become politically salient at some times but recede at others? Existing work highlights how cultural and economic grievances can shape secessionism, but it explains less well when these claims elevate the salience of secessionism and why similar grievances matter in some contexts but not others.
Kevin Gatter
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National Identities and Immigration in Catalunya and Québec
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While national identity results in either positive or negative opinions towards immigrants, strong identification with a minority nation has been associated with ethnic‐ and language‐based nationalism, thus being linked to negative views. We examine citizens who identify with both a minority nation and a nation state.
Victoria Finn +2 more
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
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Board Games in Mythologies: Comparing Old Norse, Celtic and Indian cosmological motives [PDF]
, 2019 This paper aims to compare the motif of board game or dice game in three Indo-European mythologies - Hinduism, Celtic and Old Norse - also dealing with heroic texts.
Grimmová, Jarmila
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The Ramadan Gambit: The Impact of Fasting on Cognitive Performance
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 2 billion people participate annually in Ramadan fasting, making its potential effects on cognitive performance important for workplaces, education and high‐stakes decision‐making. We study these effects in tournament chess, an incentivised, real‐world cognitive task in which move quality can be evaluated objectively by a strong ...
Samuel Buckland, David Smerdon
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