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Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times (2017)
Journal Article
Civil society is regaining critical relevance after decades of attempts to suborn non-governmental organisations and more recent governmental manoeuvres in Western democracies to control activists and social advocates (Civicus, 2016:31-32). In this a... Read More about Resilient hearts: making affective citizens for neoliberal times.
What Pollock and Rothko may have announced and Restorative Justice may have to deal with: sovereign victim culture (2017)
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A close reading of EU Directive 2012/29/EU of 25 October 2012 (EU Member States to comply by 16 November 2015), ‘establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime’, may reveal that a particular image of victimho... Read More about What Pollock and Rothko may have announced and Restorative Justice may have to deal with: sovereign victim culture.
L. S. Klejn and R. G. Collingwood on History, Archaeology, and Detection (2017)
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Collingwood is well-known for noting, in The Idea of History, similarities between the work of the historian and the work of the detective. In this essay I argue that it is not the historian who is similar to the detective but rather the archaeologis... Read More about L. S. Klejn and R. G. Collingwood on History, Archaeology, and Detection.
(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and Ethics (2017)
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In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or investe... Read More about (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and Ethics.
Collingwood, Scientism and Historicism (2017)
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he philosophy of history is undergoing something of a revival. Much has happened since its heyday in the 1960s when methodological discussions concerning the structure of explanation in history and the natural sciences were central to the philosophic... Read More about Collingwood, Scientism and Historicism.
The Military and the State in Iran: The Economic Rise of the Revolutionary Guards (2017)
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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a multilayered political, ideological, and security institution that has steadily acquired an increasing role in Iran's economy in recent years. This article analyzes the growing economic and business i... Read More about The Military and the State in Iran: The Economic Rise of the Revolutionary Guards.
Collingwood and the Philosophy of History (2017)
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Postpartum care (PPC) has remained relatively neglected in many interventions designed to improve maternal and neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa. The Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health project developed and implemented a context-s... Read More about Improving postpartum care delivery and uptake by implementing context specific interventions in four countries in Africa: a realist evaluation of the Missed Opportunities in Maternal and Infant Health (MOMI) project.