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PERIODIZING GEOLOGICALLY OUTWITH (AND WITHOUT?) THE ANTHROPOCENE: PASTS, AGENCIES, AND THE TERRESTRIAL

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a periodization that is generally understood to refer to an era of Terrestrial relationships that developed with modernization and nuclearization, the Anthropocene cannot be applied simply to premodern histories and texts. However, it has introduced historians to geological periodization as a mode of describing periods of changed ...
Gwenffrewi J. Morgan
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“TO SEUNAGAN SEEKING HAS SPREAD”: THE TRANSMISSION OF ESOTERIC TRADITION AND HISTORY AS PROPHECY

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore accusations of heterodoxy, as well as rebuttals of these accusations, leveled at Sufi groups in late‐colonial and independent Aceh, the last region of what is today Indonesia to fall under Dutch colonial rule. What has been at stake in debates about the orthodoxy of such groups has not simply, or even primarily, been ...
DANIEL ANDREW BIRCHOK
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Bret/BRAT

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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Nicholas Smart
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INTRODUCTION: REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY AS PROPHECY, CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I provide brief introductions to the notion of “prophetic” historiography that I developed in Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java (1995) and to the five essays of this forum that were written in dialogue with it. I argue that “history as prophecy” forms a practice of writing in which the
NANCY FLORIDA
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How Do I Measure up? Social Influence and L2 Motivation in the Algorithmic Age

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Comparative thinking is a fundamental human drive and a hallmark of contemporary life. For social action, such as the learning and use of additional languages, a target for appraisal (an L2 attribute) is evaluated in relation to a comparison standard (an appraiser's standpoint).
Alastair Henry, Meng Liu
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A Hidden History of Unhappiness

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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Joe Moran
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