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This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in
political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The
contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the
conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be
achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction
with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides
critical analyses of key issues in Russian and post-Soviet studies.
It explores the most fruitful ways of studying Russia with
particular emphasis on the federal system, politics in the era of
Putin, challenges of Russian foreign policy, and Russian attitudes
toward democracy. The vagaries of democracy are also explored in
articles on Georgia and Turkey. Additionally, this book examines
the philosophy of technology with an emphasis on critical theory,
eco-domination, and engineering ethics.
At the end of the 19th century, German historical scholarship had
grown to great prominence. Academics around the world imitated
their German colleagues. Intellectuals described historical
scholarship as a foundation of the modern worldview. To many, the
modern age was an 'age of history'. This book investigates how
German historical scholarship acquired this status. Modern
Historiography in the Making begins with the early Enlightenment,
when scholars embraced the study of the past as a modernizing
project, undermining dogmatic systems of belief and promoting
progressive ideals, such a tolerance, open mindedness and
reform-readiness. Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen looks at how this
modernizing project remained an important motivation and
justification for historical scholarship until the 20th century.
Eskildsen successfully argues that German historical scholarship
was not, as we have been told since the early 20th century, a
product of historicism, but rather of Enlightenment ideals. The
book offers this radical revision of the history of scholarship by
focusing on practices of research and education. It examines how
scholars worked and why they cared. It shows how their efforts
forever changed our relationship not only to the past, but also to
the world we live in.
Socialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and
Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational
study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First
World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key themes
related to women and revolution, such as anti-militarism and
violence, democracy and citizenship, and experience and
life-writing, this book sheds new and necessary light on the
everyday lives of socialist women in the early 20th century. The
participants of the 1918-1919 revolutions in Europe, and the
accompanying outbreaks of social unrest elsewhere in the world,
have typically been portrayed as war-weary soldiers and suited
committee delegates-in other words, as men. Exceptions like Rosa
Luxemburg exist, but ordinary women are often cast as passive
recipients of the vote. This is not true; rather, women were
pivotal actors in the making, imagining, and remembering of the
social and political upheavals of this time. From wartime strikes,
to revolutionary violence, to issues of suffrage, this book reveals
how women constructed their own revolutionary selves in order to
bring about lasting social change and provides a fresh comparative
approach to women's socialist activism. As such, this is a vitally
important resource for all postgraduates and advanced
undergraduates interested in gender studies, international
relations, and the history and legacy of World War I. The ebook
editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND
4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by
Knowledge Unlatched.
This book provides a holistic overview of the history of
sustainable development in Denmark over the last fifty years,
covering a host of issues central to the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs): ending poverty; ensuring inclusive and equitable
education; reducing inequality; making cities and settlements
inclusive, safe and resilient; and fostering responsible production
and consumption patterns, to name a few. It argues for a new
framework of sustainability history, one that is truly global in
outlook. As such, it explores what truly global sustainable
development would look like. It considers how economic growth has
been the driver for prosperity in the global north, and considers
whether sustainable development and continued economic growth are
irreconcilable, and what the future of sustainable development
initiatives in Denmark might look like.
In today's world, we can point to many international disputes and
interstate conflicts fueled by past events. Historical resentments
or memories of past suffering or fame are often used to justify
political, economic and even territorial demands. Inter-state
disputes and historical conflicts should be understood as evidence
of political and social tensions related to active, serious
differences in the assessment of the common past. The book explains
the role of such conflicts in international relations and suggests
ways of classifying them. It presents examples of the
internationally relevant instrumentalisation of history from
different regions of the world and outlines ways of overcoming
them.
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