International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal: Ostatnio dodane

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    • Graphic Narratives of Women in War: Identity Construction in the Works of Zeina Abirached, Miriam Katin, and Marjane Satrapi 

      Szép, Eszter (Lodz University Press, 2014-11)
      By applying terminology from trauma theory and a methodological approach from comics scholarship, this essay discusses three graphic autobiographies of women. These are A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached (trans. ...

    • The Ruling Discourse on Proper Womanhood in the Hungarian Parliament 

      Annus, Iren (Lodz University Press, 2014-11)
      Starting with a debate in September 2012 on the incorporation of domestic violence as a distinct offence in Hungary’s new Criminal Code, the issue of gender and proper womanhood has regularly re-surfaced in statements made ...

    • The Currency of Fantasy: Popular Culture’s Discourse in International Relations 

      Ningchuan, Wang (Lodz University Press, 2013)
      The “facts” of international politics constituting the first-order representations of political life, could be reflected in popular entertainment as a second-order or fictional representation. It significantly demonstrates ...

    • The Almanac “Woman and Russia” and the Soviet Feminist Movement at the end of the 1970s 

      Nadina, Milewska-Pindor (Lodz University Press, 2013)
      This article presents a short history of the origin and creation of the Almanac “Women and Russia”, which began as a samizdat underground publication devoted to the problem of women and childrearing in the USSR. The idea ...

    • Commonwealth Games and Their Impact on Scotland’s Future in or outside the United Kingdom 

      Ochman, Katarzyna (Lodz University Press, 2013)
      It is more than probable that Commonwealth Games in 2014 will be used by the Scottish government as a tool in the battle for independence. For SNP sport events constitute another occasion for underlining Scottish autonomy. ...

    • Bolivia under the Left Presidency of Evo Morales – Indigenous People and the End of Postcolonialism? 

      Nilsson, Martin (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013)
      This article explores the development in Bolivia under president Evo Morales, through a critical postcolonial approach. From a traditional liberal perspective, this article concludes that the liberal democratic system under ...

    • THE DISSOLUTION OF THE MONASTERIES 

      Smoluk, Marek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-01)
      In 1536 the English Parliament under pressure from Henry VIII and the Lord Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, gave its consent for the dissolution of the lesser monasteries and abbeys in the king’s realm, and three years later ...

    • THEOLOGY, HERMENEUTICS 

      Kačerauskas, Tomas (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-01)
      The article deals with Heidegger’s attitudes towards theology. Heidegger, stating that existential philosophy and theology are incompatible, advances a thesis of not objectivating poetic thinking. Whereas, Ricoeur’s ...

    • BOKO HARAM SHARIA REASONING 

      Igboin, Benson O. (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11)
      In the decade since Al-Qaeda, led by the late Osama Bin Laden, attacked America, there has been a resurgence in the debate about the relationship between religion and politics. The global Islamic terrorist networks and ...

    • CURRENT PROSPECTS OF KOREAN REUNIFICATION 

      Stankiewicz, Wojciech (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-10-01)
      Forecasts predicting the reunification of the Korean Peninsula were common throughout the 1990s. Since then, enthusiasm for such predictions has dampened, and though the fundamental assumption of reunification remains, ...

    • State-Building and Democracy: Prosperity Representation and Security in Kosovo 

      Silander, Daniel; Janzekovitz, John (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-01)
      The traditional assumption of the state sovereignty norm has been that an international society of states will structure the international order to safeguard the interests of the state. The end of the Cold War era ...

    • Modernity, (Post)modernizm and New Horizons of Postcolonial Studies. The Role and Direction of Caribbean Writing and Criticism in the Neo-liberal Era. 

      Penier, Izabella (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012-11-01)
      My article will take issue with some of the scholarship on current and prospective configurations of the Caribbean and, in more general terms, postcolonial literary criticism. It will give an account of the turn-of-the ...

    • MOVING BEYOND EDWARD SAID: HOMI BHABHA 

      Chakrabarti, Sumit (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2013-11-01)
      The essay takes up the issue of postcolonial representation in terms of a critique of European modernism that has been symptomatic of much postcolonial theoretical debates in the recent years. It tries to enumerate the ...