Here is the tool with the delicate handle designed to turn a tree trunk into a pipe for channeling water. Or perhaps the slight catheter designed to angle…

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The leaders of Plaid Cymru, SNP and Sinn Fein say the UK government should prepare for constitutional change.

The people who stretch a person’s sense of humanity may be the ones no algorithm currently selects.

Abstract. Both public discourse and academic work often focuses on whether activists help or harm their movement by using “radical” action. However, underp

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Performance theories treat social action as relatively improvisational, but how such spontaneous and unscripted actions manage to succeed with audiences is undertheorized. Cultural pragmatics is excep...

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Propelled by issues of migration, globalization, and postcoloniality, the field of collective memory experienced a transnational and cosmopolitan turn in the first decade of the 21st Century. A broad...

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The Declaration of Independence depicted Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages, and from its founding the United States aimed to expand westward by seizin...

Exploring the sacred in travel, religion, and culture with researcher-storyteller Anne Taylor. Click to read Weird Charisma, by Anne Taylor, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.