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Drones, the US and the new wars in Africa

open access: yes, 2014
Since the early 20th Century, Africa has witnessed varying degrees of subversion from the Mau Mau nationalist campaigners in Kenya in the 1950s to acts by rebel groups in the infamous intrastate wars of Sub-Saharan Africa.
Attuquayefio, Philip
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

La fabrique des délivrances et des réductions

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2022
As part of this collective reflection on the production of sources of memory at the time of the end of the war, this article proposes to compare the corpus of urban memories produced by the consuls and the monarchs during the Wars of Religion (1562-1598).
Maïté Recasens
doaj   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Groza konfliktów religijnych we Francji w Kronice Pierre’a Belona du Mans (1517-1564)

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2022
PIERRE BELON, naturalist and traveler of the 16th century, known for his publications in the field of botany and zoology, and above all for his account of the voyage to the Levant (1546-1549), is also the author of the Cronique, unpublished in the ...
Dorota Szeliga
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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Les contradictions de la mémoire : heures de gloires et honte des commémorations de la délivrance (xvie siècle – Révolution française)

open access: yesChrétiens et Sociétés, 2023
This article examines the urban memory of French denominational conflicts over the long term, from 1562 to the beginning of the French Revolution, through annual commemorations.
Maïté Recasens
doaj   +1 more source

Erwin Schrödinger und die Versuchungen der (Wissenschafts‐)Biografik: Vorurteilsgefüge und Mechanismen der Skandalisierung

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
Since late 2021, serious allegations have been made against physicist Erwin Schrödinger, ranging from pedophilia to serial sexual abuse. These accusations have significantly tarnished the Nobel Prize winner's public reputation. The ongoing debate has repeatedly raised the question of whether, and to what extent, these grave allegations are justified ...
Magdalena Gronau, Martin Gronau
wiley   +1 more source

Affect Theory, Religion, and Sport

open access: yesReligions, 2019
Affect theory has made important contributions recently to the study of religion, particularly drawing our attention away from ideas and practices to the emotional or affectual experience of religion.
Eric Bain-Selbo
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From Ahab to “Vilain Herodes”: Biblical Models of Evil Kings in Catholic Anti-Royalist Propaganda during Charles IX (1560–1574) and Henry III (1574–1589)

open access: yesReligions, 2023
During the French Wars of Religion, both the Huguenot and the radical Catholic factions started by stressing their devotion to the Valois monarchy, for reasons both pragmatic and ideological.
Andrei Constantin Sălăvăstru
doaj   +1 more source

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