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Resisting language shift: Scaling and rescaling Circassian and Russian across urban and rural Adygea
Abstract This article employs scalar analysis to explore the language practices of Circassians in Adygea, a republic in Russia situated on the traditional lands of the Indigenous Circassian people. Paying attention to language ideological assemblages in urban and rural areas, I examine how Circassians navigate and attempt to reconfigure linguistic ...
Valeriya Minakova
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The rules intended to regulate the emigration of peoples of the Northwestern and Central Caucasus to the Ottoman Empire in the 2nd half of the 19th century are contained mainly in the office documentation of Russian military and administrative bodies ...
Anzor V. Kushkhabiev
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Territorial Rights and the Debate About the Morality of Zionism
ABSTRACT This paper explores the view that, beyond particular wrongs committed by Zionism, the Zionist project was itself inherently wrong. I argue that the most plausible basis for this claim is the contention that Zionism disrespected the territorial rights of the local Arab population. By examining leading contemporary theories of territorial rights
Daniel Statman
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Between reconciliation and peace making and brutalization: The Israeli case
Abstract This article examines the relationship between peacemaking, reconciliation, and brutalization in violent conflicts. It argues that these processes are deeply interconnected: effective peacemaking and reconciliation can interrupt or reverse brutalization, whereas unsuccessful or incomplete peacemaking may allow brutalization to persist, deepen,
Daniel Bar‐Tal
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ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud +4 more
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A Polymath Translator Flourishing In The Nursery of Ottoman Statesmen: Mehmed Tahir Munif Effendi
Although it is known that translation activities in the Ottoman Empire have existed since the establishment of the Empire in 1299, it was only in the 18th century that written translation activities gained importance and pace.
Erkul Yagci, Ahu Selin, Izci, Hilal
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Palestinian Geographies of Boycott
ABSTRACT Practices of boycott are central to anti‐colonial liberation movements. Since the 2005 call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions by Palestinian civil society organisations, boycott has had multiple distinct iterations that address the uneven production of space under colonialism.
Hashem Abushama
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Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt
In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt.
Alan Mikhail
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Antonio Gramsci's Anti‐Fascism: Not Your Average Fascist's Cultural Marxism
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the form and content of Gramsci's Marxism in light of long debates about anti‐fascism. Through twists and turns, Gramsci came to understand fascism as a new form of politics, as a movement, ideology or regime. No mere bourgeois reaction, fascism is a sui generis form of mass politics that translates the roots of modern ...
Stefan Kipfer
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