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Affective States of Academics: The Dissolving Fantasy of the ‘Good Academy’

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the affective trajectories of academics in social science and humanities departments, this article asks how they imagine a ‘good academy’ and how they navigate the tension between that imagination and the demands of contemporary university regulations.
Demet Gülçiçek, Emine Erdoğan
wiley   +1 more source

“If I'm going to be an ally, I have to walk the walk”: Negotiating Occupational Activism Within K‐12 Educational Contexts

open access: yesSociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 3, August 2026.
Conservative lawmakers are increasingly passing legislation that would ban the teaching of race, gender, and sexuality within K‐12 schools. Because these bills impact both teachers and students, it is important to understand how teachers perceive, and potentially resist, these bills.
Jessica L. Schachle‐Gordon
wiley   +1 more source

Muscular Christianity: the Church of Scotland Mission, Gikuyu, and the question of the body in Colonial Kenya c1906-c1938 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This thesis is a social and cultural history of the Church of Scotland Mission to Kenya (CSM) and a study of colonialism in Kenya’s Gikuyu highlands during the period between c1906-c1938.
Cunningham, Thomas
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 609-635, July 2026.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 396, Page 347-368, June 2026.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

The music of Hamish MacCunn (1868-1916): a critical study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Apart from a single study of Jeanie Deans, MacCunn's music has, to date, never received a detailed examination. This thesis aims to provide a contextual basis for, and a stylistic analysis of, his major works, and so establish informed criteria by which ...
Jamieson, Alasdair
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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1

open access: yesParliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 240-265, June 2026.
Abstract The Royal Titles Bill (1876) proved to be contentious because it raised fraught issues of royal prerogative, constitutional legality, political perspective, parliamentary strategy, journalistic practice, and public opinion. Disraeli insisted that Queen Victoria could choose the supplementary title, empress of India, while Gladstone and his ...
Robert O'Kell
wiley   +1 more source

A semiotic analysis of the short stories of Leonid Andreyev, 1900-1909 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1986
This thesis applies the techniques of semiotic analysis to a selection of short stories by Leonid Andreyev in an attempt to offer one answer to the problems of categorising Andreyev's unique art and placing it within a literary-evolutionary perspective ...
Hutchings, Stephen Charles
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UA3/1/3 Scrapbook 1914-1922 - Part 2 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1922
Scrapbook 1914-1922 contains invitations and programs to many events at WKU as well as events put on by other colleges and organizations. Part 2 contains pages 91 to end. Page numbers refer to original scrapbook and may not match the pdf file.
WKU President\u27s Office - Cherry
core   +1 more source

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