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Football Hooliganism (2010)
Book Chapter
Poulton, E. (2010). Football Hooliganism. In B. Fischer, & S. Lab (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention. SAGE Publications

Creativity in Philosophy: Toward Cultural Proteism and Philosophy of the Possible (2010)
Book Chapter
Epstein, M. (2010). Creativity in Philosophy: Toward Cultural Proteism and Philosophy of the Possible. In E. Demenchonok (Ed.), Philosophy After Hiroshima (477-512). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Philosophy after Hiroshima offers a philosophical analysis of the issues surrounding war and peace, and their challenges to ethics. It reminds us that the threat posed to civilization by nuclear weapons persists, as does the need for continuing philo... Read More about Creativity in Philosophy: Toward Cultural Proteism and Philosophy of the Possible.

" " (2010)
Journal Article
Epstein, M. (2010). " ". Common Knowledge, 16(3), 367-403. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2010-001

In this guest column, Epstein offers “a new sign” that, he argues, resolves difficulties that have arisen in many theories and practices, including linguistics, semiotics, literary theory, poetics, aesthetics, ecology, ecophilology, eco-ethics, metap... Read More about " ".

Sex in Imagined Spaces. Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch. (2010)
Book
Ní Dhúill, C. (2010). Sex in Imagined Spaces. Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch. Legenda

From Thomas More onwards, writers of utopias have constructed alternative models of society as a way of commenting critically on existing social orders. In the utopian alternative, the sex-gender system of the contemporary society may be either repro... Read More about Sex in Imagined Spaces. Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch..

Katalog (2010)
Book
Kabakov, I., & Epstein, M. (2010). Katalog. German Titov

The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh (2010)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y., & Perwez, S. (2010). The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh. Anthropology Today, 26(6), 14-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8322.2010.00770.x

The article focuses on the community of Bene Ephraim (the Children of Ephraim, in Hebrew), who in the late 1980s declared that they belonged to the Lost Tribes of Israel. This group stems from a community of the Madiga untouchables of Andhra Pradesh... Read More about The Children of Ephraim: Being Jewish in Andhra Pradesh.

'La Mémoire de la Shoah': the Contentious Case of Soazig Aaron's 'Le Non de Klara'. (2010)
Journal Article
Cairns, L. (2010). 'La Mémoire de la Shoah': the Contentious Case of Soazig Aaron's 'Le Non de Klara'. French Studies, 64(4), 438-450. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knq104

Soazig Aaron's Le Non de Klara (2002) is a prize-winning novel about an Auschwitz survivor and has been greatly lauded, by Jorge Semprún among others. This article attempts to convey the novel's status as a literary artefact of high aesthetic quality... Read More about 'La Mémoire de la Shoah': the Contentious Case of Soazig Aaron's 'Le Non de Klara'..

Genealogy, kinship and knowledge: A cautionary note about causation (2010)
Journal Article
Lyon, S. (2010). Genealogy, kinship and knowledge: A cautionary note about causation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(5), 394-394. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x10002244

The choice of emphasis in kinship studies has often resulted in incompatible theoretical models of kinship that are mutually undermining and contradictory. Jones’ attempts to reconcile disparate approaches to kinship using OT is useful, however; seei... Read More about Genealogy, kinship and knowledge: A cautionary note about causation.

Motivation and Justification from Dreams: Muslim decision making strategies in Punjab, Pakistan (2010)
Journal Article
Lyon, S. (2010). Motivation and Justification from Dreams: Muslim decision making strategies in Punjab, Pakistan. History and Anthropology, 21(3), 263-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2010.500813

Dreams may serve to justify or motivate decisions. This paper examines two dream incidents in Pakistan which have implications for the study of decision making processes. In the first incident, the centrality of the dream is questionable in the decis... Read More about Motivation and Justification from Dreams: Muslim decision making strategies in Punjab, Pakistan.

DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates (2010)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2010). DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates. BioSocieties, 5(3), 348-365. https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2010.18

The article explores how the relationship between genetics and history is performed in genetics studies that aim to reconstruct human migrations. It focuses on two case studies: research on the nature of genetic diversity of South Asian populations a... Read More about DNA Evidence? The impact of genetic research on historical debates.

Motion and landscape: Otl Aicher, Günther Grzimek and the graphic and garden designs of the 1972 Munich Olympics (2010)
Journal Article
Schiller, K., & Young, C. (2010). Motion and landscape: Otl Aicher, Günther Grzimek and the graphic and garden designs of the 1972 Munich Olympics. Urban History, 37(2), 272-288. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926810000350

This article focuses on Otl Aicher's design and Günther Grzimek's garden architecture for the 1972 Munich Olympics. We argue that the functionalist aesthetics of the Munich Olympic site should be interpreted as a translation into graphic and landscap... Read More about Motion and landscape: Otl Aicher, Günther Grzimek and the graphic and garden designs of the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Ideas against Ideocracy: the Platonic Drama of Russian Thought. (2010)
Book Chapter
Epstein, M. (2010). Ideas against Ideocracy: the Platonic Drama of Russian Thought. In C. Bradatan, & S. Oushakine (Eds.), In Marx's Shadow: Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia (13-36). Lexington Books

Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown... Read More about Ideas against Ideocracy: the Platonic Drama of Russian Thought..