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Current Musicology, 2018 Opera scholars have had something of a bounty in recent years. Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance follows in a line of collected volumes that have sought to diversify the field through critical focuses on race, identity ...
Jane Forner
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What Makes Autocracies’ Soft Power Strategies Special? Evidence from Russia and China [PDF]
, 2016 The paper problematizes the national soft power strategies of authoritarian states arguing that many of their features stem from those countries’ political regime.
Patalakh, Artem
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2017 After the October Revolution, increasing the level of adult education was recognized as one of the most important state tasks. Together with the “power”, the proletariat had to gain access to “knowledge”, or, at least, conversance of the political ...
O.V. Telushkina
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IperstoriaIn the contemporary crisis of representative democracy, the increased accessibility of the Internet has favoured novel forms of civic engagement. E-petition platforms like Change.org have empowered individuals to address decision-makers on various ...
Maria Cristina Aiezza
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Interview with Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine
Voices in Bioethics, 2016 Dr. Marcia Angell is an American physician, author, and the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Angell joined the Journal’s staff in 1979, became executive Editor in 1988, and served as Editor-in-Chief of ...
Michael Reaves
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
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Tyragetia, 2015 This article is the result of research of the museum's collection of postcards on the theme of the First World War, which was carried out in connection with the centenary since the war began.
Ana Griţco
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Politics and Practices of visual propaganda in Portuguese Estado Novo. An Introduction
Revista Portuguesa de HistóriaMass print media, such as newspapers and illustrated magazines, created mass audiences at the beginning of the twentieth century, offering fertile ground for governments wishing to mobilise entire societies for war or to disseminate information or ...
Filomena Serra, Paul Melo e Castro
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