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""Junius and Joseph examines Joseph Smith's nearly forgotten [1844] presidential bid, the events leading up to his assassination on June 27, 1844, and the tangled aftermath of the tragic incident. It... establishes that Joseph Smith's murder, rather than being the deadly outcome of a spontaneous mob uprising, was in fact a carefully planned military-style execution. It is now possible to identify many of the key individuals engaged in planning his assassination as well as those who took part in the assault on Carthage jail. And furthermore, this study presents incontrovertible evidence that the effort to remove the Mormon leader from power and influence extended well beyond Hancock County [Illinois] (and included prominent Whig politicians as well as the Democratic governor of the state), thereby transforming his death from an impulsive act by local vigilantes into a political assassination sanctioned by some of the most powerful men in Illinois. The circumstances surrounding Joseph Smith's death also serve to highlight the often unrecognized truth that a full understanding of early Mormon history can be gained only when considered in the context of events taking place in American society as a whole."" Beginning with this provocative thesis from the introduction, Wicks and Foister engage in a thorough reexamination of Joseph Smith's 1844 presidential candidacy, its political context and implications, and its probable connection to his murder. While their work asserts controversial conclusions about what and who were behind that murder, its import extends further since it provides unprecedented, detailed portraits of political Mormonism, politics in 1844 Illinois and the Midwest, the web of connections and personalities that linked the two, and the events of June 27. ---Book Review can be found in: The Western Historical Quarterly Winter 2006, by: Stephen C. Taysom.

How do survivors of sexual and domestic violence relate to religion and to a higher power? What are the social and religious contexts that sustain and encourage eating disorders in women? How do these issues intersect? The relationship between Christian religious discourse, incest, and eating disorders reveals an important, and so far unexamined, psychosocial phenomenon. Drawing from interviews with incest survivors whose sexual and religious backgrounds are intimately connected with their problematic relationship with food, Jennifer Manlowe here illuminates the connections between female body, weight, and appetite preoccupations. Manlowe offers social and psychological insights into the most common forms of female suffering incest and body hatred. The volume is intended as a resource for professionals, advocates, friends of survivors, and most importantly, the survivor of incest herself as she attempts to understand the links of meaning in her mind between her incest experience and her subsequent eating disorder.

Mainstream IR continues to assume that the world is governed by calculable risk based on estimates of power. Protean Power challenges this assumption by arguing for the acknowledgement of uncertainty as an important condition of political and social life. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Dupcsik Csaba: A magyar szociológiai gondolkodás története 1990-ig (2022) A kötet a tágabb értelemben vett szociológiai gondolkodás feltérképezésére törekedett a 19. század első felétől az 1990-es évekig. Egy olyan hibridet próbáltam létrehozni, amely egyszerre lehet érdekes összefoglalás a szakmabeliek és „laikus” érdeklődők számára, illetve tankönyvként is használható diákok számára (egy korábbi, a romakutatások történetét összefoglaló könyv – Osiris, 2009, második, átdolgozott kiadás MTA TK SzI – esetében, a visszajelzések alapján, sikerült ilyen szintézist elérni). Az 1990 körül kezdődő jelenkort, a módszertani problémák, a szubjektivitás fokozott veszélye és a személyes érintettség miatt egy külön esszébe „szervezem ki” – ezt kötet olvasói, ha akarják, online nagyon könnyen meg fogják találni. A szociológiai gondolkodás kifejezése nem felesleges bonyolítás: intézményes, „igazi” szociológia ugyanis, egy rövid és terméketlen intermezzot leszámítva, Magyarországon csak az 1970-es évek óta létezik. A korábbi szerzők között nem csak amatőr proto-szociológusok, politizáló értelmiségiek, írók és költők találhatók, hanem például profi néprajztudósok, történészek és közigazgatási szakemberek. A szociológiai képzés hiányánál is fontosabb volt, hogy a proto-szociológia résztvevőit erős sodrások vitték más, főleg a politikai/közéleti diskurzusok irányába.

The "Advance in Molecularly Imprinted Polymers" Special Issue establishes a connection between original research papers and reviews that showcase recent progress in the formulation, creation, and wide-ranging utilization of molecularly imprinted polymers. The content within this Special Issue encompasses a range of subjects pertaining to the chemistry of MIPs, encompassing aspects such as molecular modeling, the utilization of novel monomers and innovative synthesis methods for crafting MIPs, the synthesis and application of ion-imprinted materials, the selective extraction of organic compounds, the preparation of sensors, and the implementation of MIPs in the field of medicine. The compilation of scientific papers presented in this collection demonstrates the diverse landscape of research within MIPs chemistry, ultimately leading to the enhancement of desired traits and the exploration of fresh potential applications for these materials.

La rencontre, c’est tout à la fois l’événement le plus banal de la vie sociale, et le fait le plus rare, si on la considère non pas comme une simple collision ou comme une situation marchande quelconque, mais comme une interaction capable de modifier le rapport à l’altérité et les trajectoires de chacune des parties impliquées. La « scène de la rencontre » telle que pensée dans cet ouvrage, dans une approche comparée embrassant toute la durée historique de l’Antiquité à nos jours, c’est donc celle qui, lisible dans les archives de l’historien, génère des formes de devenir et des émergences sociales, culturelles ou politiques, souvent fragiles ou demeurées longtemps inaperçues, mais qui ont contribué, chacune à leur manière, à l’interconnexion progressive du monde. Illustrations de la valeur heuristique du concept de rencontre, les quinze études de cas rassemblées ici, qui couvrent des terrains de recherche allant de l’Europe à l’Inde, à la Chine, à l’Afrique subsaharienne, à l’Amérique et à l’Océanie, mettent ainsi en lumière la complexité et la fécondité des situations d’altérités en miroirs, objets fragiles exhumés du passé et livrés à la réflexion d’un monde de la globalisation qui, pour avoir relié l’ensemble de l’humanité par ses réseaux d’échanges et de communication, ne s’en pose pas moins, avec une acuité inédite, la question de ce que se rencontrer veut dire.

La recherche collective présentée dans cet ouvrage est consacrée à l'examen de textes qui, en Italie et à partir du XIXe siècle, portent des traces variées de l'enfouissement volontaire ou à demi inconscient du discours d'une subjectivité tendant à être objectivée, rationalisée, jugulée, ordonnée et socialisée, comme s'il s'agissait toujours de faire pardonner ou oublier un moi devenu « haïssable » par son égoïsme esthétisant et son insolente futilité. Les travaux regroupés dans ce volume ont pour finalité de mettre au jour les signes d'une résistance souterraine et clandestine à la loi qui impose à tout auteur individuel de s'évanouir comme créateur d'une production incertaine au profit d'un produit parfaitement maîtrisé et irréprochable sur le marché universel de la communication.

Das Buch untersucht heroische Autoritäts- und Subjektivierungsentwürfe und stellt ihre Charakteristika in theoretischen Reflexionen und anhand von Fallbeispielen vor.Held:innen sind Autoritätsfiguren. Man folgt ihnen, bewundert sie und ahmt sie nach. Sie dienen als Modelle der Selbstbeschreibung, Selbstformung und Handlungsorientierung und wirken in diesem Sinne subjektivierend. Das Verhältnis von Gefolgschaft und Heldenfigur wird nicht, jedenfalls nicht nur, durch die Kraft eines überzeugenden Arguments, sondern die Strahlkraft einer exzeptionellen Gestalt bestimmt – also durch die Logik der Personalisierung. Das Buch untersucht, wie heroische Autoritäts- und Subjektivierungsentwürfe in soziologischen, philosophischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Theorieentwürfen problematisiert werden. Anhand von vier Dimensionen (Opferbereitschaft, Vorbildhaftigkeit, Wirksamkeit und Polarisierung) werden allgemeine Merkmale heroischer Subjektanrufungen vorgestellt. Neben theoretischen Reflexionen beleuchtet das Buch zudem in disziplinären Vertiefungen, wie sich heroische Autoritätsbeziehungen und Subjektpositionen im gesellschaftlichen und politischen Feld formieren und medial inszeniert werden. Dabei werden auch transnationale Aspekte betrachtet und außereuropäische Gesellschaften, wie China und die USA, einbezogen.

Welche Bedeutung hat Europa für Polen, welche Polen für Europa? Diesen Fragen geht der vorliegende Sammelband nach, der die sich wandelnden polnischen Ideen und Vorstellungen zu Europa in einem breiten Panorama vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart präsentiert. Sowohl in Kontakten als auch in Abgrenzung zu anderen bildete sich ein entweder stärker nationales oder europäisches Zugehörigkeitsbewusstsein heraus. Der Platz Europas in Polen war somit das Ergebnis eines diskursiven Aushandlungs- und Verflechtungsprozesses, der sowohl die »Europäizität« Polens als auch Europa selbst immer wieder aufs Neue definierte. Mit einer solchen Historisierung von Europavorstellungen tragen die Beiträge polnischer und deutscher Autoren zu einem besseren Verständnis der historischen Fundierung heutiger Europadebatten bei und bieten spannende Einblicke in die intellektuelle Landschaft des östlichen Nachbarlandes.

Focalisés sur les événements de Picardie et d’Italie, les historiens ont négligé le rôle joué par la Bretagne durant les guerres qui opposent, de 1510 à 1570, la France à l’Angleterre et à l’Empire. L’affaire d’Écosse, récurrente durant cette période, révèle au contraire le rôle majeur joué par elle, avant comme après sa réunion définitive au royaume, dans le dispositif militaire, naval et diplomatique français. Elle en subit les effets sur son sol : ses rivages sont attaqués et ravagés. Ses ports accueillent d’imposantes concentrations navales, de nombreuses troupes y embarquent. Cette mobilisation guerrière oubliée est ici révélée autant qu’éclairée par d’abondantes archives étrangères. Son analyse montre la transformation de ce duché souverain en province du royaume. Elle fait avancer la connaissance d’un xvie siècle breton encore trop méconnu, et elle intéresse les spécialistes de l’histoire militaire.

It was one of these landmark special programs at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand, on the top floor of the Maneeya Centre Building, in the upscale commercial heart of Bangkok, where Major General Pichet Wisaijorn was the exclusive guest speaker on that evening of November 2009. Many of the journalists, both Thai and Foreign, were present and Khun Roong and the other staff at the bar were working non-stop, dropping pizza here and glasses of dark beer there. Expectations were high. Pichet was the Fourth Army Region commander, which includes the three “problematic provinces” of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, plus a few unruly districts in the Songkhla province. Since 2003, thousands of people, rubber tappers, insurgents, traders, school teachers, civil servants, police officers, military personnel and some foreigners had been killed in a maelstrom of violence linked to what was officially called the “separatist insurgency” by the authorities as well as linked to the mafia culture prevailing in this region. The trafficking of women, drug peddling, extortion, smuggling of palm oil and cheap electronic items from Malaysia have always been rife in the deep South. This mafia culture is prevailing in many of Thailand's 77 provinces, but the total breakdown of law and order in the South makes it worse. Many in the audience were thinking that General Pichet would deliver some answers to the most important questions which have puzzled journalists, businessmen and other residents for years: who leads the insurgency? What are their objectives? How the movement is structured, or is it even structured at all? What is the division of power between the Southern Border Provincial Administrative Committee, the armed forces, the local administration and the central government? Have there been any attempts to negotiate with the insurgents? But the presentation of Pichet was rather disappointing. What is the direction of their policy? Pichet repeated the royally endorsed recipe: khao chai, khao teung, pattana (“understand, reach out and develop”). With its supreme and unquestioned wisdom, this “magic formula” is supposed to throw the listeners in deep awe and reverence. But the mantra had long become a poor PR tool to answer the questions of journalists and diplomats on field visits in sam changwat pak tai, the three provinces of the South.

Fluid mechanics has been a topic of great practical and research interest for many centuries. However, this field of research is still young and vigorous, thanks to tremendous opportunities that have been provided by modern computational and experimental techniques. It is an amazingly wide and exciting area of knowledge, offering the possibility of applications in virtually every aspect of our lives. The present Topic offers an opportunity to communicate recent research results and applications across a wide range of sciences.

What happens when Translation Studies merges with Cultural Studies? The merger unveils an encyclopedic world hidden behind the cross-linguistic surface, catapulting us into the realms of multilingual studies, cognitive sciences, social sciences, history, geopolitics, the humanities, and now the exponentially growing field of AI technologies. This book brings together scholars from a multitude of disciplines to attest to the merger on a 21st-century intercultural and interdisciplinary platform, where (inter)cultural agility, interpretative adaptability, and resonant creativity emerge as a galvanizing force in Translation Studies. In doing so, cutting-edge theories and concepts in the field, such as trans-creation and eco-translation, among others, are highlighted. More significantly, the chapter authors examine linguistic hierarchies embedded in geopolitical power structures and dive into the cultural and historical depth to capture the essence of the paradoxes between “translatability” and “untranslatability” among traditions, cognitive frameworks, mental precepts, and linguistic constructs. Thus, disciplinary boundaries fade into the background, and a symbiotic linguistic/cultural undertaking in Translation Studies is crystallized. The book treats translation as both a linguistic and cultural endeavor with multimodal and multi-layered interactions across all human realms.

In spite of extensive research in the field of cultural studies, the topic of fear has not yet been exhausted, especially considering that not even the semantics of its linguistic devices or the diversity of its linguistic constructions have been satisfactorily explained. This study looks to the present day to examine which media generate fear by which means and manage to assert themselves as an acceptable perspective on social reality.

Ranging from Polish inspirations in contemporary authors such as Bernlef, Frank Westerman and Erwin Mortier, over the Central European successes of the now forgotten Jo van Ammers-Küller, to the Bulgarian character Firmin Debeljanov in The Sorrow of Belgium: with its focus on the various interrelations between the contemporary literature of the Low countries and the so-called smaller literary cultures located between the German and the Russian language areas, the volume Van Eeden tot heden offers a multi-faceted perspective on a hitherto barely explored topic in twentieth-century European literature. Due to the academic background of the contributing authors the emphasis is on Polish, Hungarian and Czech case studies, though the Balkans are also being dealt with – albeit less prominently. Whereas some contributions search for contacts, links and influences between literatures and literators, some other chapters set up textual encounters in which authors and their works are compared from a thematic, poetic, stylistic or generic angle. Apart from these comparative endeavors, another group of contributors offer reception analysis regarding the overall topic. In the last part of the volume the focus is on issues of (national) representation and the discursive strategies that are used for it.