James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Mao's Cultural War: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution Revisited. [PDF]
Wu Y.
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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Vaults, heroes, and enemies: a multimodal approach to poster propaganda in the <i>Fallout</i> series. [PDF]
Aleksić D, Tasić M, Stamenković D.
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Increasingly separate spheres? The changing state gender discourse in China from 1990 to 2023. [PDF]
Wang J, Zhang R.
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ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
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A dataset for detecting emotional manipulation techniques in Lithuanian text. [PDF]
Butkienė R +7 more
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Nationalist–Feminine Bifurcation: The Construction of National Morality Through Gender Regimes
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of nationalist–feminine bifurcation to analyse how nationalist–populist regimes construct moral orders through gendered representations. It explores how women are simultaneously portrayed as the idealized ‘national woman’ and the excluded ‘moral threat’. Through a comparative discourse analysis of four cases—
Muhammed Ramazan Demirci
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The Role of Influencers and Echo Chambers in the Diffusion of Vaccine Misinformation: Opinion Mining in a Taiwanese Online Community. [PDF]
Yin JD +5 more
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From Tweets to Tyranny: Exploring the Symmetry Between State and Social Media Censorship of Speech
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Bhanuraj Kashyap, Paul Formosa
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