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Heather McKnight deposited ‘The Oceans are Rising and So Are We’: Exploring Utopian Discourses in the School Strike For Climate Movement in the group
Utopian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article offers some provisional analyses of the discourses presented by participants in the School Strike for Climate movement, which (since it began in 2018) has been organised variously under the banners Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate.1 This paper contends that the movement goes beyond just…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited »une institution cosmopolite«? Rituelle Grenzziehungen im freimaurerischen Internationalismus um 1900 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible – and controversial – attempts to organisationally model the “cosmopolitan imperative” of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning “chain of brothers” forged by the…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited Between law and politics: Reflections on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoWith US economic sanctions against Russia in recent years, the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline project in Europe that links Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea came under considerable global attention. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has only increased uncertainties around the Project, arguably one of the world’s most consequential submarine pip…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited Transit of energy via cross-border pipelines: A study on the limits of GATT article V in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe freedom of transit in international trade law originally involved the movement of goods across borders without any arbitrary or unnecessary hindrance. In this era of network-bound energy systems requiring the permanent establishment of fixed installations such as gas pipelines and high voltage power transmission grids to facilitate access to…[Read more]
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Sam Rose deposited Interpreting Art in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHow do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited “Une œuvre internationale d’un caractère humanitaire”: The Appeal to Humanity in International Masonic Relations in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoFreemasons often referred to an ideal of “humanité” (Humanität, umanità, humanity) in order to bridge all differences separating mankind. In doing so, they rendered these differences all the more visible, especially in the international arenas. This was definitely the case when freemasons tried to deduce from this ideal “universal” standards…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Gretchenfrage oder Nebensache? Zur konzeptionellen Verortung von ›Religion‹ in Überblicksdarstellungen zur euro-päischen Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe article outlines how comprehensive works on the history of Europe conceptually deal with religion – with regard to the relationship between religion, society and culture, the handling of the theory of secularisation and the significance of religion for the construction of Europe.
Der Beitrag skizziert, wie Gesamtdarstellungen zur Geschichte…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited The Legal Designing of Regional Gas Pipelines: An Appraisal in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis paper seeks to identify and understand the legal framework and models that undergird the regional gas pipeline networks being established in our times, against the backdrop of the evolving legal norms and business practices. It further seeks to examine the ways in which the competing rights and interests of different stakeholders in the…[Read more]
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Stacy Fahrenthold deposited Return migration and repatriation: Myths and realities in the interwar Syrian mahjar in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThe concept of return is an intoxicating analytic for scholars, for several reasons. The idea that migrants return home creates opportunities to reclaim them from the hegemony of the bordered nation-state. For diaspora theorists, return works as a rebuttal to the field’s preoccupations with exile and loss. Migrants return home all the time, t…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited Rights of the Child under International Law in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoGovernment of India: Ministry of Education,
National Mission on Education through ICT, e-Pathshala PG Programme, Course on International Human Rights Law,
Module on Rights of the Child under International Law
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar, Amirhossein Vafa (eds.). Persian Literature as World Literature in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoPersian literature used to be visibly worldly when Persian was a lingua franca in a vast space from Balkan to China. With the British colonialism in the India and the rise of nation states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Persian lost its status and became more national in various contexts. In Iran it only got worsened with sanctions,…[Read more]
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Hegemony, Counterpower & Global History. Medieval New Rome & Caucasia in a Critical Perspective in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThis chapter analyses Global Byzantium by situating the medieval empire of New Rome in the history of statehood’s generalisation worldwide. Arguing that statehood remains the implicit mental furniture of History at a macro-civilizational scale, and so more or less at the micro too, the chapter proposes the dual concepts of hegemony and c…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Peace Dialogue among Religions: Influence of Religions on Laws and Moral Values in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoIllustrated script of a stage play created by the author, a peace dialogue among an American Christian, an Israeli Jew, a Saudi Arabian Muslim, and a Japanese Buddhist. It draws from the conflict resolution process pioneered by Johan Galtung and practiced in Peace Studies classes taught by the author and others at Osaka Jogakuin University. It…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited ReDesigning the Future—Mastery Project in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReDesigning the Future is the second project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how can we design a sustainable future?,” the purpose of this project is to understand the grand challenges we must overcome to achieve…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Encountering famous East-West bridge persons across the U.S. to Japan in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoThis 23-minute presentation at the University of Hyogo in Kobe goes more deeply into the biography of Steve McCarty than appears in his long chapter in the new book A Passion for Japan: A Collection of Personal Narratives. Formative influences discussed include Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Tibetan yoga, and Zen. Places include Boston, the Taos P…[Read more]
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Kiril Dimitrov deposited Organizational Leadership through the Massive Transformative Purpose in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoPurpose: This study aims at justifying the affiliation of the massive transformative purpose as an important item in the aggregate of the proclaimed corporate culture elements. For this reason the bundle of shades in the meaning for the massive transformative purpose will be explored, bearing in mind the main researcher’s interest in outlining t…[Read more]
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Egas Moniz Bandeira deposited China and the Political Upheavals in Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Persia: Non-Western Influences on Constitutional Thinking in Late Imperial China, 1893-1911 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoResearch about Sino-foreign cultural interactions during the last decades of the Qing Empire pays much attention to the extremely dense and complex relations between Japan and China. Against this backdrop, historians have tended to neglect that the Chinese “constitutional preparation” of the years 1905-06 was concomitant to the promulgation of con…[Read more]
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Egas Moniz Bandeira deposited Parliamentary options for a multi-ethnic state: sovereignty, frontier governance, and representation in early twentieth-century China in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThis article reconstructs two modes of parliamentary representation of (post-)imperial diversity in early twentieth-century China. One model foresaw a differentiated representation of the borderlands in the nascent parliamentary institutions, using upper house seats to garner loyalty from the nobility at the same time as it denied electoral…[Read more]
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Kiril Dimitrov deposited Emerging characteristics of business culture under the influence of Covid-19 pandemic in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe current article explores and assesses the coming into being of new business culture characteristics due to the extreme conditions of Covid-19 pandemic. Based on conducted focus group with students in Organizational culture module and performed subsequent literature review of scientific and professional literature, and blogs/ sites of opinion…[Read more]
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