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Nizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
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Nizari Ismailis are one of most active Muslim communities in academic education and knowledge production in the fields of Islamic studies and humanities. For this purpose, the community runs two academic institutions based in London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
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Buckminster Fuller's Reflexive Modernism
Design and Culture, 2012ABSTRACTThrough his design of the United States Pavilion at Expo 67 and other projects, Buckminster Fuller has become a reference point for a range of contemporary approaches to sustainable development and design. By examining the Pavilion and an unpublished 1939 manuscript, “Ballistics of Civilization,” in conjunction with the sociological theory of ...
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Modernization and relational reflexivity
International Review of Sociology, 2011This paper deals with the issue of reflexivity in the different spheres of society, affected by the processes of globalization. The author argues that each sub-system of society is more or less differentiating itself according to a (prevailing) code or register of reflexivity.
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An Exploration of the “Reflex” in Reflexive Modernity
Organization & Environment, 1999An increasingly larger portion of the environmental movement claims that environmental destruction can only be stopped when our concern about environmental destruction is coupled with an “ecological consciousness,” that is, a wholistic understanding of the relationship between self, society, and nature. The author offers three interconnected theses to
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Adoption in Britain: reflexive modernity?
Australian Feminist Studies, 2004The number of adoptions taking place in Australia has dwindled to barely 500 a year (half of them international) and there have been calls to abolish it entirely as a policy option.
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Reflexive Modernization: Connecting the Environment with Modernity and Modernization
2013This chapter offers an analytical overview of Reflexive Modernization (RM). It provides a detailed presentation of the two constituent dimensions of RM: the risk society and the ecological modernization (EM) perspectives. It discusses how both dimensions resonate with certain approaches to environmentalism and, more particularly, how EM sits alongside ...
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Reflexive Moderne und neuer Terrorismus
2007Die Theorie der reflexiven Modernisierung diagnostiziert einen Metawandel der Moderne. Eine Potenzierung und/oder Kombination von unbeabsichtigten Nebenfolgen erfolgreicher Modernisierungsprozesse sowie eine Radikalisierung von Modernisierung stellt zentrale Begrifflichkeiten, Leitideen und Institutionen sowie kategoriale Unterscheidungen und ...
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