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Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
Brahmans or even rebels, among others – who seek to purify the tradition and rid it of the foreign, superstitious, heterodox or other circulatory phenomena. But
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
By the early 2000s, feminism had been almost completely subsumed by gender studies, which had adopted both the postmodern knowledge principle—that objective knowledge cannot be obtained—and the postmodern political principle—that society is structured into systems of power and privilege.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
While the anthropological definition is certainly less overtly racist and elitist, it is clear today that this approach can and did open the door for a pernicious kind of cultural commodification—that is, a set of conditions wherein the collective heritage of a neighborhood, city, people, or nation is commodified via tourism or the selling of goods
... See moreDavid A. Banks • The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Jerusalem, with a Jewish population of 100,000, was to be internationalized but cut off from the Jewish areas.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
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Mark Elvin has cautioned that late imperial China witnessed almost the entire spectrum of practices towards nature, from reverential approaches to an anthropocosmic order unified by qi cosmic flows to large-scale engineering schemes on land and water. By the late imperial period, the toll taken by massive hydraulic projects, deforestation and inten
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