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In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia. Many of these were women, who built informal and ... between men that remain underexplored. Apart from in Burma, the hub of the Asian socialist movement, Asian socialist parties were almost always in political opposition to mainstream nationalist parties. The
. 10 Liam Kofi Bright, ‘White Psychodrama’, forthcoming in Journal of Political Philosophy. 11 Alexandra Walsham, ‘The Reformation and the “Disenchantment of the World” Reassessed’, Historical ... choosing, as he does, to see ‘belief’ as a colonizer of ‘neighboring epistemic categories’. Ibid., 282, 293. 7 See Ted Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2005), 193; D
Mackenzie made no secret of his political ambitions. Modern interpreters treat the debate as a literary joust, a playful display of mock argument in a classic late Renaissance mode. A letter from Evelyn to ... political events; his shrewd reflections on the arts, religion and science: all these make his Diary an invaluable source. Evelyn was an influential courtier and a polymath, a notable figure in his day. But
tendencies. The pre-gold city of Sydney, with a pre-rush population of 54,000, positioned itself at the top of the Australian colonies’ social and political food chain. Gold rushes upset this balance of power ... ’.53 In this case, the first university council in Melbourne saw revolutionary impulses and looked to re-create an Old World social hierarchy. Word of new political creeds in ascendance across the globe
articles reviewed date mostly from the year 2000 onwards, reflecting the growing importance of water to scholarly (as well as cultural, political and artistic) agendas in the previous two decades. We have ... and China and the staggeringly rapid melt of polar ice caps. At the same time, infrastructures around water reveal long legacies of political and environmental disfranchisement. To give but three recent
and oral history interviews to show how collectives helped shape the places in which they lived, changing Spain’s social and urban landscape and constituting the emergence of women into the political ... untaken, opposing her former political activism with an identity she depicts as traditionally feminine. This conflict might relate to cultural expectations from the time she is describing, or to her later
Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy (Princeton, 2017), 84. 111 Smith, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference, 84. 112 C. R. Boxer, The Golden Age of Brazil: Growing Pains of a Colonial
recipes to political tracts. Once deciphered and compared with other documents, such as letters and diaries, they show not only the ways in which the members of the family read these varied books, but also ... ' responses to political and religious crises. I A FAMILY TRADITION ‘Ye Eating teeth of time devours all things[:] a Hogshead of Ancient papers of Value belonging to our family lost at Ipswich, in New
, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development. In general, only aspects related to investment, construction, equipment acquisition and ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013
petroleum derived products, in a Case Study. The method deals with technical, economic, environmental, social and political factors being equally important, following the concepts of sustainable development ... of knowledge expressed by environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions and uses technical analysis and mathematical tools that configure its systemic character (Rigolin, 2013
Nazi system. The main thesis of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion is also not trivial. Young decidedly rejects the conventional opinion of the individualistic character of anthropology of the author of ... Thus Spoke Zarathustra. However, is it possible to interpret the following threads, so typical of Nietzsche’s philosophy, in a different manner than the individualistic one: the criticism of narrow
leaders feared the social and political consequences of increased popular enthusiasm for using violence. Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo, and the other founders of Umkhonto we Sizwe did not launch their sabotage ... a South African historiography that was dominated by the study of social history ‘from below’: most scholars evinced limited interest in the activities of the national leaders of formal political
of modernization inspired by Max Weber. The most promising avenue of inquiry, we argue, lies in asking how American political institutions configured what should properly be called an American ... a global political economy upon the world. If Britain’s industrial revolution in the late eighteenth century marked the beginning of a ‘Great Divergence’ (Pomeranz) of ‘the West’ from other regions
of social orders, making visible the workings of supposed ‘normative’ and ‘logical’ binaries in cultural, biological and political mechanisms.6 In the context of modern Europe, most histories benefit ... ’ towards stigmatized sexual acts and identities in past eras can lead to such rosy conclusions.20 This article seeks to avoid such readings, and to remove the weight of political expectation that histories
, bridges and roads. The political value that municipalities and other stakeholders began to place on the upkeep of these sites exceeded their economic function and thus questions the seminal role that ... , animal and artisanal traffic was far more than a commercial or political necessity.27 The flow of all matter (including air and water) into and out of the city participated in maintaining the city’s
was supported further by a growing philosophical interest in the possibility of using gesture as a substitute for oral speech for hearing as well as deaf people. The spectacular collapse of political ... , 1991); Josef Fulka, Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy (Gesture Studies, viii, Amsterdam, 2020), 10–14. 18 Bulwer, Philocophus, 124; Elnathan Parr, The Workes
people exposed to harm and suffering. Processes of political and economic marginalization, as well as unsustainable forms of land-use, turned some people into victims of flood disasters, while others ... , economic or political transformations. Forget about markets, institutions or power relations; ‘It is the climate, stupid!’ has become the battle-cry of a new generation of historians, exemplified by Geoffrey
most often think of as ‘music’ now. Such music carries traces of the other musics that situate us in a wider cosmos of actions and agencies, of bodily and political comportments, of mingled intellectual ... of time, music and harmony towards histories of temporalities, sound and rhythm.6 Another persuasive, and perhaps less straightforward, place to look is the history of philosophy.7 We could look to the
-century protagonists’ ideas about time. The rise of absolutism then gave birth to prognostics, a weighing of the consequences of political acts for possible futures, but only with the Industrial and French ... Ottoman empire, China and Japan, European clocks served not to accelerate technological progress in precise timekeeping, but to advance God’s plan of salvation and to claim interpretative and political
recently declassified documents of the intelligence service MI5 that they were already known for their political activism. The file referring to Rodney Hilton states that ‘as a junior army officer in World ... type of history. As Hill, Hilton and Hobsbawm recalled, the founders were linked by a common past, a shared political orientation, a passion for history and regular meetings in which they debated the
