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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Cities and global governance: State failure or a new global order? [PDF]
International society, so long the resolution to problems of collective political order, now appears to be failing in its capacity to deal with transnational challenges such as climate change, global security and financial instability.
Curtis, Simon
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Orientalist modes of modernism in architecture : Colonial/Postcolonial/Soviet [PDF]
This article aims to propose a comparative analysis of modernism in architecture, which appeared at the end of the 19th and especially during the 20th century in colonial Maghreb, postcolonial India and Soviet Central Asia. Building on the notion of double bind, we attempt to explore the contradictory role that modernism played in the modernisation of ...
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A Natural LTR Retrotransposon Insertion in the Promoter of GhNAC140‐Dt Boosts Cotton Lint Yield
ABSTRACT Transposable elements (TEs) are fundamental drivers of crop evolution and domestication. Whereas the underlying mechanisms of TE‐mediated gene activation remain poorly understood. Lint percentage is an important yield component in cotton. Here, we report a retrotransposon insertion in the promoter of GhNAC140‐Dt, a secondary wall NAC encoding ...
Yujia Yu +9 more
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Vilnius presents itself today as the easternmost and northernmost European city of the Baroque, and the Baroque heritage played an important role in 1994 when the historic centre of Vilnius was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Marija Drėmaitė
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Literary Journalism on Trial: Janet Malcolm, Criminal Character and the Legacy of New Journalism
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Jess Cotton
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Trust in Regulation in a Time of Revolution
ABSTRACT This article examines trust in regulation as a core value and precondition of the modern liberal democratic regulatory state. It develops a concept of justified trust in regulation, grounded in regulatory trustworthiness—honesty, competence, and reliability—rather than in proxies such as partisan loyalty, blind faith, obedience, or resignation.
Cristie Ford
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The article is focused on participation of the Soviet delegation in the International Architecture Congress in Rome (1935). This participation is considered through the prism of tasks for the international activities of the Union of Soviet Architects in ...
Evgeniya V. Konysheva
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Architecture of Jesuit Churches in the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1564–1773 [PDF]
The article presents the history and accomplishments of Jesuit architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century.
Betlej, Andrzej
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Contested Refugeeness in the Lavrio Kurdish Camp After the 2015 Reception Crisis in Greece
ABSTRACT This article explores the meanings of refugeeness among Kurdish residents of the self‐managed Lavrio refugee camp in Greece in the aftermath of the 2015 reception crisis. Focusing on how Kurdish camp residents make sense of their political identities and on how they distinguish themselves from those they call ‘non‐political refugees’, the ...
Filyra Vlastou‐Dimopoulou
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