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Hogyan terjedt az amerikai “kvantitatív forradalom” Angliába?
Peter Haggett illusztrációja arról, hogy hogyan terjedt az amerikai központokból a “kvantitatív földrajz” a britekhez és Kanadába. Körülbelül az 1960-es évek végéig nézi azt, hogyan mentek át a fő képviselők egyik egyetemről a másikra. A […]
Why open access is important in academic publishing
Connecting to some of the reasons behind open access, here is a blog article from last year that sums up some important points. The context here is mainly the US. “Academic publisher Elsevier, which owns a […]
Heinrich Rickert’s tripartite parallels
Greeks: Romans: Orientals Wissenchaft: state: religion thinking: will: feeling Rickert vs. Dilthey vs. Weber Ringer, Fritz K. (1990): The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, […]
Where were the oldest universities outside “Europe”?
The “university” is a very Eurocentric term: it is said that because there were no “corporations” in the “East”, the archetype schools of higher education did not exist there, which is, of course, not true […]
Secular globalization as Westphalianism versus Islamism?
I simply can’t believe this entry on Fundamentalism by Bassam Tibi in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory (2010). It propagates as the process of “secular globalization” the so-called “Westphalian system of nation-states”, which is actually […]
Muslims condemning things
There’s this great tumbler called Muslims Condemning Things, which is about samples of muslims and their communities condemning violence, oppression, terrorism, etc. It shows great evidence, and acts as an excellent reminder for us about biased Eurocentric […]
Medicalization of Women: Fixing the Fainting Woman, 1920
A historical fragment of the medicalization of women and the everyday practices of governing gender roles through “health treatment” in the early 20th century. Read in full here. “There’s seems little more appealing to the […]
Zoltán Ginelli 