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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
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La sanction des parricides du droit romain au Code pénal napoléonien
Droit et Cultures, 2012 From the Roman Republic to the Napoleonic Empire, the crime of parricide was always subject to a specific judicial treatment. The ambition of all legal systems was to establish sanctions which were not only penal and repressive, but also symbolic and ...
Gilles Trimaille
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The May 1998 anti‐Chinese riots in Indonesia tested how states claiming ties to a transnational ethnic community define responsibility during crises. This article compares how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) constructed obligations towards the Chinese diaspora following the violence.
Judy Yi‐nga Lee
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India’s Tryst with International Criminal Law: Why Delhi Cannot Digest the Roman Pasta?
Christ University Law Journal, 2014 The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court of 1998 (the statute) establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) seeks to provide an international criminal law regime to deal with crimes against humanity. Despite the path breaking structure of this statute, India has refrained from being a signatory to it ...
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Mercy: A Right and a Privilege
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many accounts of mercy nowadays are morally neutral; agents show mercy when they impose less harm than they might have, whether or not such harm would have been permissible. More morally infused perspectives are often dismissed; for they seem too narrow to capture the full gamut of ordinary usage.
Jessica Isserow
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SEXUAL TRANSGRESSIONS IN EARLY BYZANTINE LAW
Anali Pravnog Fakulteta u BeograduThe article examines the sexual offences enumerated in title 17 of the early Byzantine legal code Ecloga (726 or 741). While several offences, such as adultery, rape, abduction, incest, and homosexual intercourse, were already addressed in the ...
Vid ŽEPIČ
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To be(long) or not to be(long): Literature and community
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Over several decades, the modern world's intensified mobility has prompted a broad interest in community studies in the social sciences, which address in new ways the topics of place, belonging, and identity formation. Such topics being salient to literature and literary studies as well, the overall aim of the article is to extract a selection
Svend Erik Larsen
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Suicide, taedium uitae et droit romain sous le Principat
CriminocorpusSuicide was viewed in various ways by the Ancients. For the Stoics, it was the conclusion of reasoning rather than the outcome of a violent emotion. In this regard, several historical studies had already highlighted the patrimonial reasons underlying ...
François Waquet
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