The roundtable: an abstract model of conversation dynamics
Is it possible to abstract a formal mechanism originating schisms and governing the size evolution of social conversations? In this work a constructive solution to such problem is proposed: an abstract model of a generic N-party turn-taking conversation.
Lacasa, Lucas +2 more
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From the ashes, a fertile opportunity for historicism – Review Symposium on Leys’s The ascent of affect [PDF]
Ruth Leys’s book is a thorough survey of the unmanaged forest and scrubland of emotion research: a hodgepodge of paradigmatic ideas that amounts to so much kindling.
Boddice, Rob
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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi‐clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, historians, as well as those in adjacent disciplines, have often been unable to gain access to sufficient records or data to conduct analysis of who supports
Evan Smith, Lauren Pikó
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Isbaaro: Checkpoints and World Making beyond the State in Somalia
ABSTRACT This article examines the dynamics of checkpoint authority in Somalia, focusing on how kinship, mobility and checkpoint practices intersect to shape political and social orders. Challenging the notion that checkpoint governance is either an expression of state‐like power or indicative of the state's absence, the authors argue that Somali ...
Peer Schouten +2 more
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[Review of] John Bodnar. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America [PDF]
The Transplanted is represented as a synthesis of the immigrant experience in urban America. Bodnar posits the confrontation with capitalism as sole explanation for migration, emigration and immigrant behavior in the new country. His stated intent is to
Eive, Gloria
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The genealogy of judgement: towards a deep history of academic freedom [PDF]
The classical conception of academic freedom associated with Wilhelm von Humboldt and the rise of the modern university has a quite specific cultural foundation that centres on the controversial mental faculty of 'judgement'.
CLARK W. +18 more
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The Politics of Passage: Studying Checkpoints and Claim Making in Conflict‐affected Settings
ABSTRACT Roadblocks, or checkpoints, are obligatory passage points that are erected by entities claiming authority over a given crossing. They are often the most common everyday interface between civilians and armed actors in conflict‐affected contexts, but are overlooked in studies on either trade or authority amidst conflict.
Peer Schouten +4 more
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Palamism Does Not Disfigure the Gospel: A Reply to Thomas Weinandy
Abstract In a 2024 article in the IJST, Fr. Thomas Weinandy argues that the theological system of Gregory Palamas is in grave error, especially with respect to its commitment to an objective ontological distinction between God's essence and His energies. In his concluding paragraph Fr.
Travis Dumsday
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Abnormal surges and the effects of the Seto Inland Sea circulation in Hiroshima Bay, Japan
The Seto Inland Sea (SIS) is the largest semienclosed coastal sea in Japan and has three connections with the outer seas. When a typhoon approached the SIS in September 2011, spatial variations of sea level elevation were observed across the SIS ...
Jae-Soon Jeong +4 more
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Archimandrite Tikhon (Bellavin) and hieromonk Antonin (Granovsky) in 1897 [PDF]
The letter of archimandrite Tickhon (Bellavin), who later became Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, in support of bible scholar hieromonk Antonin (Granovsky), appears for the fi rst time.
Semenenko-Basin Il'ia
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