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History
Radhika Hettiarachchi, Samal Vimukthi Hemachandra
Summary: The 'aragalaya' or the 'people's struggle' is one of the most important and successful movements in Sri Lanka's history of democracy. In 2015 and 2022, the people of Sri Lanka voted out and ousted a government through protests, expressing their dissatisfaction with political representation and striving for justice, equity, democracy, and system change.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HISTORY
(2023)
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History
Vanessa da Silva Baptista
Summary: This article explores the cognition and experimentation of magic tricks among the late medieval Europeans, demonstrating through late medieval manuscripts that rings and other domestic objects were animated using sleight of hand, the chemical properties of mercury, and mixtures of mercury, sulphur, and saltpetre.
HISTORICAL RESEARCH
(2023)
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History
Amy Luck, Faye Sayer
Summary: In the past two decades, there has been increasing research on the impact of in-person engagement with historical sites on visitor wellbeing. However, the impact of digital online engagement with historical places on user wellbeing has been largely overlooked. This study compares the impact of digital engagement versus in-person engagement on wellbeing at the heritage site Elizabeth Gaskell's House (UK) and concludes that digital engagement provides an opportunity to reduce wellbeing inequality and support wellbeing.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HISTORY
(2023)
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Economics
Luis Felipe Zegarra
Summary: By analyzing welfare ratios in Lima from 1757 to 1819, it was found that working families faced challenges in meeting their basic needs if they did not deviate from their typical consumption habits. However, by substituting expensive foods with cheaper alternatives, such as maize flour, they were able to meet their nutritional and other essential needs. The welfare ratio in Lima was lower than that in Northern Europe and North America, but comparable to several important European cities like Paris, Munich, and Toledo.
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History
S. A. Cavell
Summary: This article examines the military operations of the British in 1808 on the French Islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, finding that professional and financial gain were the primary motivations for the commanders, rather than strategic concerns.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY
(2023)
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History
Zdenko Mandusic
Summary: This essay comparatively examines how film collectives in Bosnia and Ukraine produce wartime documentaries, highlighting the importance of filmmakers with personal connections to the conflicts.
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History
Bastiaan Willems
Summary: By examining the death marches from Stutthof's East Prussian subcamps in January 1945 and the following Palmnicken Massacre, this article explores the role of the Wehrmacht in genocidal violence during the late stages of the war. It argues that many Wehrmacht commanders were aware of the genocide and actively supported the SS in carrying out the regime's racist mission. The author also reveals the military's attempts to conceal these acts of violence in the postwar years.
HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES
(2023)
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History
Aisling Shalvey
Summary: This research note examines Josef Mengele's experiment on sixty-three victims suffering from noma in Auschwitz, exploring the details of the experiment, the treatments given to the victims, and the preservation of specimens from the Nazi era. The author presents biographical information of all known victims through a comprehensive chart.
HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES
(2023)
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History
Partha Pratim Basu
Summary: The article examines the political, social, and religious aspects of Rammohun Roy's thought and action, arguing that he did not intend to undermine India's classical heritage or support mindless imitation of the West. Instead, his liberal agenda incorporated indigenous sociocultural elements.
INDIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Mark Quigley
Summary: This essay examines the role of Ascendancy as a colonial social formation in Irish writing and culture, and its influence on anticolonial and postcolonial thought. It analyzes Samuel Beckett's reflection on power and empire, reevaluates his relationship with W. B. Yeats, and explores the significance of their relationships to Ascendancy. The essay also considers the impact of recent controversies surrounding Ireland's Decade of Centenaries and its position in global imperial history, as well as Beckett's and Yeats's legacies and Ireland's public monuments and commemorations.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Kai Wiegandt
Summary: This article discusses the emergence of reverse domination narratives in recent decades, depicting the migration of professionals from the Global North to new economic centers in the Global South, where they occupy subordinate positions. These narratives reflect the anxiety in the North about losing economic, political, and cultural influence.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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History
Ania Aizman
Summary: Since February 24, 2022, new oppositional groups have emerged in Russia, ranging from socialist and anarchist to nationalist or fascist. These groups use anonymity and sabotage as protest tactics to challenge historical narratives and state-building myths. They aim to demonstrate the existence of a decentralized antiwar movement.
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Cultural Studies
Kevin Barker
Summary: Britain's accession to the European Union in 1973 had a significant impact on the British Commonwealth, reducing its global influence and emphasizing its role in promoting Britain's soft power. However, the Commonwealth gained added significance during the Brexit referendum campaign in 2016. For supporters of Brexit, the Commonwealth represents an important platform for Britain to reestablish itself in the world through trade and migration. This essay examines the intellectual contributions of James Bryce, Jawaharlal Nehru, Kwame Nkrumah, and Shridath Ramphal to assess the influence of Brexit on the Commonwealth. It argues that Britain's anxiety about the European Union's constitutional order is rooted in its colonial past and the subsequent formation of the Commonwealth. Furthermore, the essay explores how the Crown exercises sovereign power within the Commonwealth through a strategic presence and absence.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Gil Anidjar
Summary: The concept of minority, like any other concept, functions differentially. It is distinct from the majority and other categories of identified minorities. The polysemy and vagueness of minority, along with its relationship to various modifiers, contribute to its differential nature. The modifiers range from number and race to class, gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, and legal, social, and political aspects. The concept also involves measurement, which relates to quality rather than quantity. This essay highlights the destruction of minority as a crucial phenomenon to recognize in the age of minorities.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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History
Anne-Marie Harvatt
Summary: This article discusses the role of historical novels in representing the past and their ability to challenge and enhance historiography. Using Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy as an example, it explores how novelists utilize literary techniques and imaginative reconstruction to alter our perception of the past. The article argues for a blurring of the line between historiography and historical fiction and suggests that some historical novels should be considered as part of historiography.
RETHINKING HISTORY
(2023)
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History
Julia Lerner, Anna Novikova
Summary: This article introduces a new type of YouTube format that gained popularity among Russian-language viewers during the early stages of the Russian war in Ukraine. The format features 1-2-hour videos of dialogues between a journalist and prominent figures in contemporary Russian public life, discussing personal reflections on national rupture and identity crisis caused by recent political events and Russian military aggression. The article analyzes how this format serves as a collective moral therapy and creates a community of dissenters in a liberal antiwar milieu.
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History
John Vsetecka
Summary: This article examines poems written by students in Soviet Ukraine during the 1930s as a response to the Holodomor famine, providing alternative narratives and expressing the experiences of survivors. However, the repressions in the late 1930s suppressed further writing about the famine and the survivors' efforts to come to terms with what happened.
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History
Miah Hammond-Errey
Summary: This paper presents the findings of a research on the impact of big data on intelligence and decision-making in the Australian National Intelligence Community. It identifies the characteristics of good intelligence in a big data era, including timeliness, purposefulness, actionability, accuracy, value-add for the intended audience, and lack of bias.
INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
(2023)
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Cultural Studies
Jason Ahlenius
Summary: This essay discusses the impact of empire and capital expansion through Eadweard Muybridge's survey photography. It shows how photography can naturalize the temporalities of global capital and US empire, while also varying its role in different geographical contexts. Muybridge's photographs depict the transformation of Guatemala into a modernizing coffee state, suppressing indigenous histories and representing them within global currents of commodification and exhibition.
INTERVENTIONS-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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History
Matt D. Ryan
Summary: This article provides an account of how innovative participatory governance unfolded in South Australia between 2010 and 2018, and explores the practical implications of an 'interactive' political leadership style. Under the leadership of Premier Jay Weatherill, this approach to governing was regarded as one of the most successful examples of democratic innovation globally. However, it was abandoned after a change in government.
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY
(2023)
