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Exhuming the Vestigial Antique Body in Walter Scott's Caledonia
Walter Scott’s Scottish novels partake of the 18th-century Romantic wish to exhume the corporeal Antique body of Scotland―a body which is altogether nostalgically reconstructed as it is scarred by traces of the Roman conquest, and satirically ...
Céline Sabiron
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ABSTRACT This article explores Russia's genocidal discourses on Ukrainians, focusing on the predominant narrative that frames cultural genocide as the ‘liberation’ of Ukrainians through the erasure of their cultural identity. Existing literature tends to overlook this form of genocidal discourse, which diverges from typical ‘othering’ by instead ...
Martin Laryš
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The subject of importance of Italy, at the beginning of book VI of De Architectura of Vitruvius (30-20 B.C.) shows a significant change from a geo-climatic conception to a political and ideological one.
Marco Martin
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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A postcolonial reading of Mark's story of Jesus [PDF]
This thesis reads Mark's story of Jesus from a postcolonial perspective. It proposes that Mark need not necessarily be treated in an oversimplified polarity as an anti- or pro-colonial discourse.
Samuel, Simon
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Gendering the funeral. Public obsequies held for elite women in Rome
This chapter focuses on public funerals held for aristocratic women during the Republican age and the transition to the early Empire. Through close readings of the literary testimony, I will analyse aspects of the history, appearance, contents, form ...
Östenberg, Ida,
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El presente trabajo pretende ofrecer un estudio sobre las bases jurídicas, el procedimiento y las consecuencias de los asaltos de núcleos que Roma efectúa durante la época republicana.
José Antonio Martínez Morcillo
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The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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Islamic Law and Imperialism: Tracing on The Development of Islamic Law In Indonesia and Malaysia
This study has demonstrated that the Dutch and British occupation in Indonesia and Malaysia, proves Edward Said’s assessment of imperialism a vehicle for cultural hegemony.
Imam Mawardi
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Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?
Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
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