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The Role of Modern Audio-Visual Media in the Construction of Iranian National Identity
(2021-06-08)
This paper sheds light on a less explored aspect of the modern construction of Iranian national identity. It investigates the role of modern audio-visual media including cinema, radio and television in this modern construction. ...
Trucking with Time: The Emergence of New Mongolian Mobilities in America
(2021-06-08)
How do time, space, and movement interpenetrate to shape the life choices of Mongolian men living in Los Angeles? In this article I contribute to an ongoing scholarly debate about how Mongolian lives have been affected ...
Islamic Culture in the Khanate of Kazan: A Report Sent from Kazan in 1550 during the Reign of <Süleyman> the Lawgiver
(2022-11-14)
The article presents the renowned Bashkir-Turkish historian A.Zeki Velidi Togan’s (1890-1970) article on the unsuccessful 1549-1550 siege of the city of Kazan by Ivan IV in English translation with an extensive introduction. ......
The Olov Janse Collection: Material Evidence for the Han Viet Burial Tradition
(2023-12-15)
In the 1930s, the Swedish archeologist Olov Robert Thure Janse conducted excavation expeditions in Indochina. His expeditions revealed brick tombs in North Vietnam during a period when Vietnam was under the occupation of ...
The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Test Case of Cultural Values: Reconstructing China’s Nationalist Discourse in Social Media
(2023-01-17)
A variety of nationalisms are said to have emerged worldwide since the Covid-19 pandemic; however, scholars struggle to determine the mutual impact of nationalism and the pandemic, and they do not agree on what constitutes ...
Neoliberalism and Extractivism in Turkey
(2023-01-18)
This essay aims at revealing the connection between neoliberalism and extractivism in Turkey by focusing on gold extractivism. It begins with the conceptual background of neoliberalism and extractivism, then describes how ...