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A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Performing Papal Supremacy: Niccolò Cieco's Capitoli for Martin V and Eugenius IV

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses two poems performed by the blind oral poet (or canterino) Niccolò Cieco of Arezzo for the first two popes elected after the Great Schism, Martin V and Eugenius IV. It argues that Niccolò's characterisation of the papal office must be understood in relation to both medieval canon law and contemporary ecclesiological ...
Isaac Figliuoli
wiley   +1 more source

Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

The Right to Exist as the Foundation of Equal Citizenship: An Ontological Inquiry of State‐Citizen Relations in Türkiye

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
wiley   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Banter: A Systematic Review of Literature to Conceptualize the Behaviors That Characterize Banter

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Banter represents an interaction practice that is typical of many close social relationships with behaviors often ambiguous in nature and maybe aggressive. This review summarizes and synthesizes the literature on offline and online banter published between 2000 and 2022 to examine: (a) the behavioral and situational factors that characterize ...
Lucy R. Betts   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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