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Postmodernism in contemporary Iranian fiction and painting [PDF]

هنر اسلامی, 2023
Nahid Jalalian, Abdolhosein Farzad
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Tourism in the context of the McDonaldization concept

Интеллект. Инновации. Инвестиции, 2021
Tourism as a mass sociocultural practice has been developing especially actively in our country since the 90s of the XX century, when borders between countries once divided by ideological barriers were opened; international contacts at the state and ...
N. M. Mukhamedzhanova
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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ECONOMY AS A PHENOMENON OF CULTURE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2017
The article redefines economy as a phenomenon of culture, a product of a historically and socially grounded set of values shared by members of a given society.
S. N. Ivaskovsky
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Playing with ‘Others’: Strategies in Intercultural Performance [PDF]

Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2015
Playing with ‘Others’: Strategies in Intercultural Performance explores ways in which There’s Danger in the Dance engaged with approaches to exploring difference.
Declan Patrick
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Synergetic Paradigm of Geopolitical Confrontation in the Postmodern Era

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2014
The article analyzes current state and mechanisms of geopolitical struggle in postmodern information age that has come. The author judges from assumption that entirely new postmodern society appeared with expansion of information technology, accompanied ...
S. N. Teplyakov
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The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
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The Embodiment of Folklore Traditions in Art as the Antithesis of Postmodern Aesthetics

Этническая культура, 2021
The aim of the research is to comprehend the folklore traditions embodied in art as an antithesis to the aesthetics of the postmodern era. The author puts forward a hypothesis according to which, against the background of a change in the socio-cultural ...
Alesia I. Gurchenko
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BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
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