Deconstructing Authority with Humor - The Cultural Adaptation and Reinvention of Women’s Discourse in Stand-Up Comedy of China [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 This paper explores the adaptation and alienation of Western postmodern approaches to female empowerment in China through an analysis of female discourse in the stand-up comedy industry.
Cao Jiahe
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From Global Studies to Global Humanities
Humanities, 2023 In contrast to the field of global studies, which has seen spectacular expansion and institutionalisation since the turn of the twenty-first century, there have to date been only a few attempts to promote or institutionalise global humanities as a field ...
Stefan Amirell
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The Imperative of Phronetic Education for Practicing Freedom in Light of the Bible’s Literary Discourse [PDF]
Phainomena, 2019 The article intends to investigate the relationship between the gift of pondering and human freedom. We aim to prove that phronetic education is a prerequisite for the practicing of freedom in reflective thinking, and thus helps the human subject to ...
Małgorzata Hołda
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The Making of the “Malay Pirate” in Early Modern European Thought
Humanities, 2020 This article traces the long historical background of the nineteenth-century European notion of the Malay as a human “race” with an inherent addiction to piracy.
Stefan Eklöf Amirell
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“Hollywood is no place for idealists”: Hollywood as Dystopia in Cinema and Fiction
Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich, 2020 The following article deals with the representation of Hollywood as a dystopian place, for women in particular, where glamour is a utopian façade for both literal and figurative corruption, where the lifespan of an actress is severely limited and the ...
Tomasz Fisiak
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At the Roots of a Global Environmental History: An Ethiopian Loop in Nature’s Archives
Sources, 2022 This article reflects on the individual and collective trajectory of research on the environmental history of Africa carried out between 2008 and 2021. It first addresses the attempt to write an environmental history of the Ethiopian nation.
Guillaume Blanc
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An Eighteenth-Century Ecology of Knowledge: Patronage and Natural History
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014 This article analyses the construction and dissemination of natural-history knowledge in the eighteenth century. It takes the mapping and narration of Orkney as a case study, focusing on the local minister and amateur natural-historian George Low and his
Linda Andersson Burnett
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Subverting the Nation-State Through Post-Partition Nostalgia: Joginder Paul’s Sleepwalkers
Humanities, 2019 With the advent of the Progressive Writers Movement, Urdu Literature was marked with a heightened form of social realism during the Partition of British India in 1947.
Amrita Ghosh
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An Indigenous critique: Expanding sociology and recognizing unique Indigenous knowledge
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 IntroductionThis essay suggests that sociologists should integrate into their critical research work on the Americas an Indigenous critique/method based on Indigenous knowledge.
Ried E Mackay
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The Sovereign, the Law and the Two British Empires
The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2007 All political societies have peculiarities, and nothing special is to be concluded from the Anglophone focus of the present article. The theme here is that there was a schism between the fi rst and second British empires, not in itself an original ...
Ian Duncanson
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