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Helena F. S. Lopes
Histories of neutrality and collaboration in the Second World War tend to focus on Europe. Yet, considering these dynamics in Asia is essential to understand the conflict as a truly global event. My book Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War looks at a small enclave that remained neutral throughout […]
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Maksim Karliuk
“Bind me, to keep me upright at the mast, wound round with rope. If I beseech you and command you to set me free, you must increase my bonds and chain me even tighter.”[1] With these words to his crew, Odysseus was approaching the Sirens in Homer’s epic. In some sense this episode aptly depicts […]
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Alexander Dunst
In a 2014 conversation in Chicago, Art Spiegelman summarized his understanding of the path taken by comics, once known primarily as cheap and popular entertainment: “[W]hen something is no longer a mass medium, it has to become art or it dies. I figured it was necessary for comics to find their way into libraries, bookstores, […]
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David Holland
Reproduced by kind permission of Glenda Munro, all rights reserved. In 1919 and 1920, a number of British ports suffered large-scale race riots as mobs targeted non-white men of various ethnicities. On the receiving end of these apparently spontaneous outbursts of racially motivated violence were mostly seafarers from colonised territories in the British Empire, whose […]
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Jonah Miller
In March 2023, Baroness Casey’s review of the Metropolitan Police found the organisation to be, among other things, ‘institutionally sexist and misogynistic.’ A year earlier, a report on officers based at Charing Cross police station described ‘a culture of “toxic masculinity”, sexual harassment and misogyny.’ In the wake of the 2021 murder of Sarah Everard […]
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Kunal Sen
Its been a busy six months since the launch of the UNU-WIDER-CUP Elements series in Development Economics in November 2022. Three titles have been published, the first was The 1918–20 influenza pandemic: A retrospective in the time of COVID-19, by Prema-chandra Athukorala and Chaturica Athukorala, which provides an analysis of the research from the last century […]
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Robert Friedland
Human aging is a remarkable process which takes us on a path through our lives often without notice. There are many losses of function that can occur with aging. What can we do to manage these declines and improve our outcomes with aging? This matter can be best considered with consideration of these fundamental questions: […]
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Maanik Nath
The evil moneylender exploiting the vulnerable borrower is a recurring genre in popular fiction. Oliver Twist depicts moneylenders as crooked gangsters operating illegal businesses and luring impoverished groups into crippling debt arrangements. Indian cinema told similar stories, proselytizing villainy of moneylenders and stirring compassion for deprived borrowers. Mother India, released in 1957, is a classic […]
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Helena F. S. Lopes
Histories of neutrality and collaboration in the Second World War tend to focus on Europe. Yet, considering these dynamics in Asia is essential to understand the conflict as a truly global event. My book Neutrality and Collaboration in South China: Macau during the Second World War looks at a small enclave that remained neutral throughout […]
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Maksim Karliuk
“Bind me, to keep me upright at the mast, wound round with rope. If I beseech you and command you to set me free, you must increase my bonds and chain me even tighter.”[1] With these words to his crew, Odysseus was approaching the Sirens in Homer’s epic. In some sense this episode aptly depicts […]
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Alexander Dunst
In a 2014 conversation in Chicago, Art Spiegelman summarized his understanding of the path taken by comics, once known primarily as cheap and popular entertainment: “[W]hen something is no longer a mass medium, it has to become art or it dies. I figured it was necessary for comics to find their way into libraries, bookstores, […]
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David Holland
Reproduced by kind permission of Glenda Munro, all rights reserved. In 1919 and 1920, a number of British ports suffered large-scale race riots as mobs targeted non-white men of various ethnicities. On the receiving end of these apparently spontaneous outbursts of racially motivated violence were mostly seafarers from colonised territories in the British Empire, whose […]
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Jonah Miller
In March 2023, Baroness Casey’s review of the Metropolitan Police found the organisation to be, among other things, ‘institutionally sexist and misogynistic.’ A year earlier, a report on officers based at Charing Cross police station described ‘a culture of “toxic masculinity”, sexual harassment and misogyny.’ In the wake of the 2021 murder of Sarah Everard […]
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Kunal Sen
Its been a busy six months since the launch of the UNU-WIDER-CUP Elements series in Development Economics in November 2022. Three titles have been published, the first was The 1918–20 influenza pandemic: A retrospective in the time of COVID-19, by Prema-chandra Athukorala and Chaturica Athukorala, which provides an analysis of the research from the last century […]
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Robert Friedland
Human aging is a remarkable process which takes us on a path through our lives often without notice. There are many losses of function that can occur with aging. What can we do to manage these declines and improve our outcomes with aging? This matter can be best considered with consideration of these fundamental questions: […]
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Maanik Nath
The evil moneylender exploiting the vulnerable borrower is a recurring genre in popular fiction. Oliver Twist depicts moneylenders as crooked gangsters operating illegal businesses and luring impoverished groups into crippling debt arrangements. Indian cinema told similar stories, proselytizing villainy of moneylenders and stirring compassion for deprived borrowers. Mother India, released in 1957, is a classic […]
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