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Economics
Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora, Maria Carmen Perez-Artes
Summary: This article proposes a novel method to calculate human capital through the analysis of age declaration statements in five towns of Baix Llobregat's county during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results show that numeracy levels in this county were above the Spanish average and even ahead of countries like Italy, Portugal, and the USA during the first years of the nineteenth century. However, numeracy dropped from the 1880s due to industrialization, child labor, and the phylloxera crisis. The study also found gender differences in numeracy and the impact of literacy, education reform, and socioeconomic status on age reporting consistency.
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History
Claire Smith
Summary: This paper explores the potential of fiction in understanding intelligence using Barbara Pym and Muriel Spark as case studies. It examines whether they drew on their wartime experiences in their works and questions the significance of fiction in an age of easily accessible archives and public records. The paper reveals that Barbara Pym's official wartime experience as an Examiner or censor was suppressed through authorial choices and external editing, suggesting that the role was undervalued as a source of intelligence. On the other hand, Muriel Spark fully utilized her brief encounter with black propaganda, offering readers insights into ethical dilemmas of deception, manipulation, and surveillance in her three fictional works.
INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
(2023)
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History
Magnus B. Rasmussen
Summary: This paper introduces a novel dataset on working-time regulation and documents how working hours have become globally standardised through public policy. The study finds that working-time reforms are global in scope and tend to reduce hours. The paper also calls for more long-term historical studies and presents two possible explanatory frameworks for working-time reforms.
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History
Alan Burton
Summary: During the inter-war period, the emergence of spy memoirs had a significant impact on the realism of spy fiction. This article focuses on Bernard Newman's three "spy memoirs," revealing the challenges faced by critics and readers in distinguishing fact from fiction.
INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
(2023)
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History
Huw Dylan
Summary: This article examines the decision and utilization of public profile by Stella Rimington, the first publicly appointed head of MI5, as well as the reaction from the press. It argues that she effectively advocated for intelligence and achieved the legitimacy she sought in important quarters.
INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
(2023)
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History
Giulia Pellizzato
Summary: This article discusses the reception of Italian culture in the United States during the early Cold War period from the perspective of translated fiction, arguing that translated Italian fiction became a part of the cultural Cold War, representing Western ideals of democracy, freedom, and creativity.
JOURNAL OF MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Patrick Bixby
Summary: This essay examines the relationship between Beckett's portrayal of vagrants and the colonial legal legacy in post-independence Ireland, highlighting the political significance of these figures and their defiance of the post-independence state's legal ideology.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Amina ElHalawani
Summary: This article examines how Arab-American women writers negotiate their hyphenated identities and view identity as a fluid concept, rather than fixed. It focuses on a selection of poems by Lisa Suhair Majaj, Laila Halaby, and Suheir Hammad, analyzing how they express their sense of being and deal with the assumed paradox of their double identity, especially after the rise of anti-Arab sentiment following 9/11.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Susanna L. Sacks
Summary: This essay analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poetic production in South Africa and explores the theme of connection in contemporary poetry. During lockdowns, South African poets compensate for the lack of state or market support for the arts through community organizations and collaborations. The digital shift has created new possibilities, but what kind of community is formed through these platforms? Who specifically benefits and under what terms? How does poetry itself mediate these relationships?
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Sean Kennedy
Summary: Samuel Beckett wrote Watt during the occupation of France, exploring the theme of complicity. Through the manuscripts, we gain insights into Beckett's thoughts on fascism and France's capitulation, as well as his artistic dialogue with W.B. Yeats. The novel revolves around disposing of a landlord's leftovers using dogs bred for that purpose, which can be seen as a parody of liberal political economy. Additionally, Beckett critiques the biopolitics of liberal Zionism, viewing it as part of the broader biopolitics of liberal colonialism.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Javier Padilla
Summary: In recent decades, thinkers have argued for political engagement with early Christian thought, but often within a limited Eurocentric framework. However, the Latin American philosopher Enrique Dussel's ideas of liberation theology and philosophy offer important precursors for a decolonial political theology.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Gabriel Quigley
Summary: This essay examines Samuel Beckett's translation of Rene Crevel's essay, demonstrating how he critiques the ideology of racial purity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe by emphasizing the panic over racial purity, degeneration, and generation hygiene.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Leo Dunsker
Summary: This essay contributes to the criticism of Derek Walcott's Omeros by focusing on the specific poetic genre and exploring the postcolonial poet's alienation from his cultural milieu. The essay argues for a mock-epic interpretation of the epic signifiers, showcasing the poet's ability to draw analogies between Homer's and his own environments. It also highlights the resistance to Homeric analogy through images of Afro-Caribbean folk-cultural practice.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Valeria Deplano, Alessandro Pes
Summary: This article explores the position of Sardinia in the colonial past and the response of the Sardinians to their colonial history. The research finds that the island experienced intense colonization and still bears the signs of colonialism until today, indicating a lack of cultural decolonization.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Nuria Codina Sola
Summary: This essay argues that globalization leads to increasing similarities between literary texts that emerge from migration experiences but are located in different contexts. By analyzing two novels, the essay highlights the importance of understanding intertextuality in a global and cultural dimension.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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History
Juan Carlos Ossandon Widow
Summary: This article discusses the spread of modern biblical exegesis within the Catholic Church after World War II, and describes the restrictive measures taken by Pope John XXIII during his pontificate on biblical studies. It explores the general attitude of the Pope towards modern biblical exegesis during the Second Vatican Council.
ANUARIO DE HISTORIA DE LA IGLESIA
(2023)
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Architecture
Mark Krasovic
Summary: It has become common to integrate arts initiatives into community planning and development efforts. This essay explores the role of arts in neighborhood development through the case of a federally funded performing arts program in Seattle. While the program aimed to benefit the community, it also ironically contributed to the gentrification of the neighborhood.
PLANNING PERSPECTIVES
(2023)
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History
Maria Ines La Greca
Summary: This article reflects on Hayden White's understanding of the subject and explores how best to move forward discussions in the theory of history. The author reconsiders White's arguments in light of recent feminist and queer theorizations, particularly from the perspective of Judith Butler's theory of subject formation. By reframing the concept of the subject, the article suggests a promising line of research that redefines the intimate links between political consciousness, historicity, and embodiment, ultimately contributing to an ethics for historical undoing.
HISTORY AND THEORY
(2023)
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Anthropology
Angela Muthana, Roy Ellen
Summary: This paper explores the relationship between the landscape of late nineteenth century Kentish Weald, the survey and collecting expeditions conducted by Benjamin Harrison and his associates, and the imagined early Palaeolithic and 'Eolithic' ways of life that these investigators aimed to uncover. It demonstrates how fieldwork influenced thinking and practice, and how walking served as a means to organize the bodily practices of knowledge production.
HISTORY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
(2023)
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History
Mark Ian Thomas Robson
Summary: This article explores one of Collingwood's most puzzling claims about thought acts - the ability to revive both the propositional content and the act of thought itself when re-enacting a past thought act. The article examines Collingwood's argument that thought acts can have the identity of a continuant, aiming to clarify the puzzling claim and demonstrate how it is possible for two different individuals to experience the exact same thought act.
HISTORY AND THEORY
(2023)
