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Propagating Afrikaner nationalism: The Voortrekker stamps as icons of an ideology, c.1933–1949
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 1024-1040, July 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper posits the importance of visual representations in cultivating a national consciousness among white Afrikaners in South Africa. It provides a case study of stamps issued to commemorate the centenary of the Great Trek in 1938 that sought to raise awareness of and funds for the Voortrekker Monument project.
Gary Baines
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WITH SPLINTERS (OR STARS) IN OUR EYES: ON READING THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL WITH MARTIN JAY
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 129-151, March 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This mostly admiring review article focuses on Martin Jay's 2020 essay collection entitled Splinters in Your Eye: Frankfurt School Provocations. Though it highlights details and insights from nearly every essay in the collection, the review devotes significant attention to chapter 4, which focuses on the relationship of the Frankfurt School's ...
Karyn Ball
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On the Structure and Significance of Augustine’s Moral Grammar
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 715-738, December 2021., 2021 Abstract This essay traces Augustine’s understanding of the structuring elements that give shape to human becoming. It presents this understanding as a distinctive form of maximalism in thinking about happiness, justice, and power, and as standing apart from classical and modern alternatives in its approach to desire, power, and mediation.
Martin Westerholm
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Oil media: Changing portraits of petroleum in visual culture between the US, Kuwait, and Switzerland
Centaurus, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 675-694, November 2021., 2021 Abstract This article examines three cases of mid‐20th‐century oil media—oil‐related imagery, iconographies, and media—in visual culture: a series of popular science books entitled The Story of Oil published in the US, an oil‐themed set of Kuwaiti postage stamps (1959), and an art exhibition in Zurich (1956) titled Welt des Erdöls: Junge Maler sehen ...
Laura Hindelang
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Mobile Information Systems, Volume 2021, Issue 1, 2021., 2021 Marine fishery production safety has always been a livelihood issue of high concern to government departments at all levels in China. With the construction of marine informatization, a large number of fishing vessels have entered the Vessel Monitoring System (VMS). The massive, highly concurrent, and continuous track data generated by these vessels has
Wei Zhang +4 more
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Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020 Periodicals is a “mirror” of society. On the one hand, they reflect the social and cultural climate of a particular historical epoch. On the other one, retain the memory of the past times.
A.V. Yakub, N.V. Yakub
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Posta Pulu Üretim Teknolojileri ve Sıra Dışı Pul Tasarımları
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2021 Ücretlendirme ve ücretlerde oluşan kaçakların engellenmesi amacıyla başlatılan pul uygulamasıyla, posta hizmetlerinde ortaya çıkan karışıklıklar giderilmiş ve kronikleşen birçok probleme pratik çözümler üretilmiştir.
Serkan Aycil
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Taxonomy at Face Value: An assessment of entomological postage stamps as effective teaching aids for science educators [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2021 Entomological postage stamps are unique means of communication of science with the public and have been suggested as effective teaching tools in primary and secondary education.
Vazrick Nazari
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Popularization of health in Polish philately
Health Promotion & Physical Activity, 2023 The promotion of health and its protection is carried out in various ways. Philately, collecting, and professional knowledge, not limited to stamps, also utilize objects that were once very popular and commonly used in correspondence — postcards.
Marek Smoła
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Sağlık ve Hemşirelik Yönetimi Dergisi, 2022 Introduction: Nursing and its image were introduced to Turkish society for the first time with stamps by the government. Aim: This study aims to investigate the nurse figures and the reasons for their use, how the nurse image is reflected in society, and
Nesrin Özdil +2 more
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