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Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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Gender and Meritocracy in Education Discourse: Language Matters [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is an attempt to provide an answer to the question: to what extend is the word "meritocracy" justified and correct for all modern societies especially post-Soviet countries.
Семенюк, І. С.
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Exploring hidden narratives: Conscript graffiti at the former military base of Kummersdorf [PDF]
, 2013 This article explores the cultural significance and interpretative potential of graffiti left by Soviet conscripts at Kummersdorf, a former military base in the German federal state of Brandenburg.
Hack, H, Merrill, S
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Meritocracy and Gender in Education Discourse: Language Matters [PDF]
, 2013 This paper is an attempt to provide an answer to the question: to what extend the word "meritocracy" is justified and correct for all modern societies especially post-Soviet countries.
Семенюк, І. С.
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Constructing and Crossing Boundaries in a New (?) Europe [PDF]
, 2010 During the last two decades, discourses over the transition process shifted toward a theoretical diversity and a deeper understanding of ‘how modernity was reworked in postsocialist context’.
Nagy, Erika
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Становление внешнеполитической идентичности постсоветских стран в условиях общественно-политических трансформаций [PDF]
, 2009 У статті розглядаються особливості суспільно-політичних трансформацій на пострадянському просторі, що набувають зовнішньополітичного значення, впливаючи на характер формування міжнародної суб’єктності пострадянських країн.
Shinkaruk, К. О. +2 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Institutional competition in the post-Soviet space [PDF]
Institutional competition is often discussed as an instrument of market creation and preservation in transition and development economies. The post-Soviet space offers an interesting case study for the analysis of this problem: increasing international ...
Libman, Alexander
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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