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Lucy Wooding's "Tudor England: A History" offers a fresh and comprehensive look at sixteenth-century England beyond the Tudor monarchs, delving into themes like fishing habits, playgoing culture, and travel narratives. The book presents a revisionist take on religion and politics, challenging popular depictions of the Tudors and their advisors. Wooding's work is scholarly yet engaging, providing new insights into Tudor domestic history and offering a nuanced perspective on the period that both academics and Tudor history enthusiasts will find stimulating and satisfying. [Extracted from the article]

In this paper I interrogate Virginia Woolf’s depiction of grief in Jacob’s Room (1922). Read through Bonnie Honig’s notion of feminist refusal, I unpack the novel’s form, ultimately bringing Woolf’s revisionist history and critical elegy into the context of the planetary violence contingent to the climate crisis. Concluding with a reflection on the ‘childish’ refusal of figures like Greta Thunberg who infamously told world leaders in 2021 that she did not care for their ‘blah, blah, blah’ climate policy, the paper draws parallels between Woolf’s refusal of war and the violence that threatens to sacrifice the children of this century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aimed to determine the level of awareness of G12 students in Tanay Senior High School when it comes to the current social issues that besets our nation. The respondents of the study are the Grade 12 students of Tanay Senior High School for the SY. 2021-2022. They were determined through availability sampling and the target population is over 50% of the total Grade 12 population. A quantitative descriptive type of research will be used in the study to determine the respondent's appraisal of the abovementioned program. The study will utilize a researcher-made questionnaire checklist which will be validated by the Master Teachers. Two areas of concern will be raised in the study; first contains the profile of the respondents which are their news source, and available reading materials at home. The second part will be the determining aspects on the level of awareness on particular social issues that are happening in our country such as a.) extra-judicial killings connected to the President's drug war; b.) proliferation of fake news and historical revisionism; c.) territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea; and d.) human rights and freedom of expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent historical revisionist tendencies have significantly influenced modern audiences' views towards certain historical figures that have been regarded for centuries in a negative light, as new insights into their lives and times have motivated the realm of fiction to approach their stories from a different angle. This article aims to look at the portrayals of Henry VIII and Cesare Borgia, as their image emerges from two recent historical TV series, "The Spanish Princess" (2019), and "The Borgias" (2011), and to discuss how these representations become embodiments of nostalgia, by analysing the historical inaccuracies attributed to these characters and trying to account for the significance behind them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Policy Sciences of Harold Lasswell, Douglas Torgerson asks an important question–whether the logic of policy sciences can inspire democratic hope for social betterment. His response is refreshing and psychoanalytically-informed optimism, whereas a jurisprudential detour of the NHS's legacy as the most important application of policy sciences in another discipline calls for agnosticism. Revisiting the application of policy sciences in international law suggests that the very logic of policy sciences, under the influence of a defective form of naturalism, disables its potential for inclusive democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent decades, the concept of strategic culture has emerged as the core focus of cultural approach theories to explain a state's strategic behavior, given that existing theories have failed to convey deviations from the universal principles of rational state behavior. Relying on the conceptual framework of strategic culture, complemented by Barry Buzan's "revisionist" approach, this article strives to fill the existing gap in the literature by presenting motives and evidence of revisionism in China's culture-based conduct. By investigating China's revisionist behavior vis-à-vis its strategic culture, we conclude that both are correlated. China's territorial claims, its rapid military modernization, the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, and its ambiguous alignment with Russia, emphasize the evolution of China's strategic culture from a defensive to a more resolute stance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ongoing, spirited debates from around the globe over statues, street names, symbols, and textbooks call for a greater understanding of the political effects of different historical representations. In this paper, we theorize that inclusive (exclusive) historical representations can increase (decrease) marginalized group members' perceived centrality to the nation, entitlement to speak on its behalf, and likelihood of becoming leaders. In an online experiment in India ($ N=1,592 $), we randomly assign participants exercises sourced from official state textbooks containing either an exclusive, inclusive, or a neutral representation of history. We subsequently assess the supply of and demand for Muslim leadership using both an original, incentivized game and additional survey and behavioral measures. We find that inclusive historical narratives increase Muslim participants' perceived centrality and entitlement, desire to lead, and demand for real-world Muslim leaders. Battles over history can carry consequences for the leadership ambitions of marginalized individuals, for themselves and their communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article investigates the Marcos golden age narratives on YouTube before the 2022 Philippine presidential elections. Despite evidence of brutality during the Marcos years, many Filipinos reminisce about his tenure as a period of peace and progress, influenced by selective historical accounts propagated through digital media. Expanding Laclau's theory of populism, we identify affective storytelling techniques prominent pro-Marcos YouTubers employ to glorify the Marcos era and examine them to understand how the populist logic of difference and equivalence guides the articulation of a romanticized past and endorses the vilification of elites and Marcos critics. Our analysis underscores the potency of nostalgia in populist and authoritarian politics, demonstrating their capacity to foster a collective yearning for a mythic past and stoke a collective desire for Marcos-brand authoritarianism. Ultimately, this article contributes to understanding the dynamics of historical revisionism and its implications for political discourse and historical consciousness in the digital age, emphasizing the role of YouTubers in shaping political landscapes through nostalgia and the manipulation of social memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary studies have already explored al-Risālah magazine's (1933–1953) dynamic role in championing a far-reaching secular-grounded educational mission— which was made more urgent by the encounter with Western innovations. Still, little attention has been paid to the journal's strong linkages with Arabic classical heritage. This article argues that al-Risālah 's writings employed concepts and terminology related to al-balāghah , or eloquence, that were by turns accurate, controversial, and innovative. These uses enriched the spectrum of al-balāghah 's applicability also to the discussion of current preoccupations with other fields like psychology. While accounting for thought-provoking works like Tāhā Ḥusayn's al-Bayān al-ʿarabī min al-Jāḥiẓ ilā ʿAbd al-Qāhir [The Arabic Bayān , from al-Jāḥiẓ to ʿAbd al-Qāhir, 1933,] Amīn al-Khūlī's al-Balāghah wa-ʿilm al-nafs [ al-Balāghah and Psychology, 1939,] and al-Zayyāt's Difāʿun ʿan al-balāghah [In Defense of al-Balāghah , 1945] as pioneering studies towards the new conceptualizations of the discipline up to the mid-half of the twentieth-century, this study purports to trace the presence of al-balāghah in al-Risālah 's articles in both quantitative and qualitative terms through the employment of DH tools for data mining. By mapping the ontological shifts that occurred in traditional languages and concepts' employment as both contrastive and continuous, the present inquiries showcase modern Arab culture's dialectics of secularism and literary revisionism as self-sufficient, culturally embedded and integrated, and not as byproducts of contact with the West. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the mid-90s, we embarked on establishing the domain of Workplace Deviance. Though we were fortunate to meet our intended goals and have the impact we had hoped for, we have often thought about what we might have done differently. In this essay, we outline some of the things we wish we knew then that we know now. As we will describe, we perhaps should have chosen a different construct name, taken a theoretical rather than data driven approach to our typology, and developed a reflective rather than formative scale. We hope this essay based on our hindsight may be of value to future scholars seeking to establish new constructs in our field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article introduces the special collection on revisionist history in management research. We asked prominent scholars to reflect on the current state of the research on their chosen topic, and how our field got there through specific decisions they or other researchers made. We also encouraged our authors to engage in counterfactual thinking by imagining how things could have been different. Our contributors offer novel, provocative insights on a variety of topics including organizational identification; emotional labor; resistance to change; territoriality; deviant behavior; and academic careers. In this article we discuss the origins of the special collection, elaborate on our approach to revisionist history, and provide brief overviews of the six papers in the collection. We conclude by discussing how others could build on our approach to revisionist history to provide other valuable lessons for management research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay, I revisit a choice I made early in my career to develop and segment different facets of myself: my work as a professor of organizational behavior and my deep interest in the theory and practice of counselling psychology and psychotherapy. While these may appear relatively compatible, I experienced them as very different worlds and lived in them quite separately, afraid my engagement in one might infect or disrupt that in the other. Despite such efforts to keep my worlds apart, however, I found myself inadvertently integrating them—in my research, my teaching, and to some extent in my emerging clinical practice. Yet I held back from fully owning or sharing my growing commitment to counselling psychology. In this revisionist reflection, I consider some of the consequences of this set of choices and what might have been different had I made others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We take a revisionist approach to study emotional labor—commoditization of emotions for a wage—to delineate how organizational scholars must "revive and resubmit" two crucial elements of the emotional labor phenomenon that have been left behind as research within this space evolved. First, we argue that scholars have not paid enough recent attention to display rules that prescribe what emotions are acceptable within service interactions, instead assuming classic conceptualizations (i.e. show positive emotions and hide negative emotions) still prevail. Second, we highlight that the shift away from service occupations to more white-collar occupations may have minimized our understanding of the complexity of emotional labor in modern service arrangements, such as multiple job holders, and employees in the gig economy. We hope that future emotional labor scholarship will dig into several taken-for-granted assumptions about the phenomenon moving forward to help "go back to the basics" regarding display rules of those in service work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The title of Coch and French's influential article "Overcoming Resistance to Change" gave the term "resistance" a negative meaning and connotation that has been subsequently fostered by ongoing scholarship and practice regarding organizational change. In this article, we describe the understanding of resistance originally developed by Kurt Lewin, which had very different connotations for the term, and how Lewin's understanding was lost after his death. By reflecting on two publications by one of the authors that were based on an interpretive approach to organizational change and that did not need the term resistance, we show it is possible to interpret change agent initiatives and change recipient responses without using that label. Thus, we demonstrate how taking a revisionist history approach to a particular taken-for-granted construct salient to organizational change research can show how tenuous that construct actually is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Existing scholarship suggests that rising powers can become revisionist powers when they are dissatisfied with their status. What causes such dissatisfaction? Conventional wisdom holds that rising powers become dissatisfied when established powers refuse to recognize them as equals. However, if status informs patterns of superiority and inferiority, then rising powers can also become dissatisfied when smaller states do not defer to them. In fact, I argue that there is a life cycle as to how status dissatisfaction develops: status disputes between rising powers and smaller states can be especially frequent early in the power transition, before status disputes between rising powers and established powers become more prevalent. Through text analysis of an original dataset of statements from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 2018, supplemented by survey and archival evidence, I demonstrate that contestations from smaller states trigger the majority of China's status grievances, and China-smaller states status disputes are especially prevalent early on. Thus, status-driven revisionism can emerge via bottom-up processes, and it can happen earlier than currently theorized. My analysis highlights the agency of smaller states in shaping power transitions and hierarchies, as well as how and when the US–China competition unfolds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers guidance to history teachers for making thinking and revision routines in the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) history classroom to keep pace with the curriculum and to encourage active listening, idea generation and connection-making. Topics discussed include the practice of free-writing to generate ideas, the Micro Lab Protocol for evaluating and validating causes of historical events such as the Russian Revolution, and the Generate-Sort-Connect-Elaborate routine.

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The works of Danish-Australian historian Jens Sørensen Lyng (1868–1941) provide a problematic foundation for Australian migration studies. His 1927 magnum opus, Non-Britishers in Australia: Influence on Population and Progress, championed racist methodologies based on Nordic supremacy while simultaneously espousing progressive aspects of multiracial inclusion and pluralist nation-building. While revisionist histories have since condemned him as a racist pseudoscientist, Lyng's more progressive arguments concerning Australian development and the acknowledgment that all peoples – to some extent regardless of race – had a role to play in a modernising Australia have been mostly overlooked. This article re-examines Non-Britishers in Australia and Jens Lyng himself to bring this apparent contradiction to the fore. It argues that Lyng's work illustrates the interpolations of progressivism and racism in the era of White Australia, and that the two must be understood not as opposing sets of ideas but as ones that could be and were simultaneously promoted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Conventionalism about personal identity over time is the view that personal identity is in some sense dependent on our beliefs, desires, social practices, or language use (collectively: on our "conventions"). This paper provides an opinionated survey of the state of the art about personal identity conventionalism. First, it offers a taxonomy of possible types of conventionalism along four different axes and discusses weak vs. strong, private vs. public, doxastic vs. non‐doxastic, and realizer‐relative vs. assessor‐relative varieties of conventionalism. Second, it reviews the main sources of motivation for conventionalism about personal identity: methodological, epistemological, and normative motivations. Third, it maps out the place of conventionalism in logical space and distinguishes it from related philosophical theses: personal identity pluralism, indeterminacy about personal identity, revisionism, and self‐concern relativism. Finally, some potential avenues for future research are considered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

India's amiable history with Vietnam began with peaceful migration to Southeast Asia from the beginning of the Common Era and discovery of new land and sea routes. Yet, modern Vietnamese consider India distant and remote. Indian culture reached Vietnam in "benign and peaceful" waves, while China's onslaught was "forceful and potent." India is neither a threat nor concerning runs the argument. Without surveys, we cannot be sure this is a consensus view. Clearer is that Vietnamese do not write revisionist histories to deny the migration of Indian princes, merchants, and philosophers in the first millennium. There is recognition of the Hinduized Champa as part of Vietnamese culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A reflection piece—on rethinking the return of a Martial Law dictator in the form of his namesake, the newly elected president of the Philippines; the gamut of conversations on (un)covered facts, post-truth, appearances, interpolations, populism, revisionism and transformations, as well as the power of (trans)national media and images entangled with participatory publics; and how might a younger generation and/or transgender poet, such as myself, who did not experience first-hand the atrocities of military rule and learned them only through dominant narratives, might create and/or open capacious spaces for empathic opacity, new understandings, and possible coalitions and resistances within a historical moment concurrent with a present and/or imagined dystopia—expressed as a suit of three poems: To write another eye; Now is no longer the time for poets; Requisite condemnation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With a penchant for provocation, Quentin Tarantino has an unmistakably postmodern approach to soundtrack design. As an archetypal "melomane" auteur (Gorbman 2007), he frequently juxtaposes the iconic and the ironic, making use of late sixties pop-rock and the music of seventies genre films—spaghetti westerns, Blaxploitation, horror—in surprising and occasionally disturbing ways (Garner 2001, Tincknell 2006, Coulthard 2012). The latter half of his career has been explicitly oriented around historical revisionism, utilizing this music to imagine what "might have been" if life were more like cinema (Garner 2013). But, in his 2012 antebellum western Django Unchained, Tarantino makes use of two works from the Classical-Romantic canon that don't fit neatly within his normal approach: the Dies irae from Verdi's Requiem and Beethoven's "Für Elise." This music stands out as anachronistic, rupturing the historical and stylistic logic at work within the film, as well as Tarantino's oeuvre more broadly. This article explores the surprising inclusion of nineteenth-century music within Tarantino's constructed film-world, bound as his texts typically are within his highly specific audiophilic and cinephilic taste. The tangible break from his signature style offers an opportunity to assess the limitations of auteurist control itself, to consider how and why an auteur may temporarily decenter their own musical preferences. I interpret this as a conscious strategy of audiovisual rupture, in which Tarantino intentionally destabilizes his constructed film-world as a method of historical critique. The analysis focuses on a scene set to Verdi's Dies irae, in which Tarantino restages the famous climax of The Birth of a Nation (D.W. Griffiths, 1915) set to Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." This sequence revives Griffith's work and its racist ideology in order to parody it, temporarily surrendering control of the film's historical imagination only to reclaim it and imagine other possibilities. This push-and-pull suffuses the narrative of Django Unchained as a whole, concerned as it is with the hero's journey toward self-determination. I argue that Tarantino's use of nineteenth-century music reveals tensions around control and liberation, speaking to his anxieties as a filmmaker and his philosophy around historical revisionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discussion of Alexander Bogdanov as a Marxist revisionist has largely centred on his philosophy of being and cognition and on Plekhanov's and Lenin's accusation that Bogdanov was an idealist renegade from Marxism. However, the real issue of revisionism at the time was not materialism but determinism : the question of whether socialism would appear by the working of the objective laws of nature or the subjective will of human beings. Bogdanov did indeed revise Marxism, but he did so in order to defend it as a natural science. He conceived of society as a form of life subject to biological laws of nature: the need to assimilate energy from the environment and the need to adapt to the environment in the struggle to survive. He reinterpreted the key elements of scientific socialism – the idea that existence determines consciousness and the labour theory of value – in terms of this worldview. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In light of the disastrous consequences of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, the majority of Americans – along with prominent political leaders, journalists and others – acknowledge that was the wrong policy choice. Few, however, are willing to acknowledge it was also illegal. Furthermore, there is little acknowledgement that Bush administration officials who planned the war and members of Congress who authorized it were informed beforehand by academics, State Department specialists and countless others of the likely negative consequences of an invasion and occupation but chose to ignore it. And a number of prominent supporters of the invasion have attempted to rewrite history to cover up for their culpability, particularly prominent Democratic senators who subsequently became their party's nominee for president and went on to serve in higher offices – John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The seminal contributions of the esteemed Italian Marxist scholar, Domenico Losurdo, have significantly enriched the theoretical and methodological landscape surrounding the study and practical application of historical-dialectical materialism. This article elucidates Losurdo's principal perspectives on the intricate challenges inherent in the construction of socialist societies. In stark departure from prevalent Western Marxist paradigms, Losurdo's analyses of revolutionary historical praxes are imbued with a rigorous self-critical lens, eschewing adherence to revisionist or liquidationist doctrines that characterized the prevalent trend of anti-communist pseudo-Marxism fashionable within some academic circles. This discourse systematically unpacks the salient themes of this intellectual inquiry, meticulously assessing Losurdo's oeuvre as a distinctive and invaluable contribution to the nuanced exploration of the complexities and prospects entailed in the development of authentic socialist experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

University governing bodies, especially academic boards, play a crucial role in policy formation. However, due to the predominance of managerial values over academic values in the policy-making process, a persistent divide exists between policy formulation and implementation. This divide results from the marginalisation of academics and the dominance of managerial authority figures within these bodies. Our study investigates the latter to determine the precise Foucauldian apparatus used by authority figures to influence policy-making meetings. Using an innovative arts-based method, we analyse ethnographic vignettes through a Foucauldian lens and transform them into collages depicting the apparatus used by authority figures: Strategic Managerial Monumentalism, Managerial Historical Revisionism, Managerial Discursive Dominance, Managerial Panoptic Surveillance, and Managerial Normalisation. We contend that only a well-defined separation of governance powers can effectively counter the encroachment of managerialism and uphold the democratic representation of academic values in university policies to bridge the policy-practice divide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The international influence of the Western cinematographic genre is indubitable. In this genre, the West is portrayed as a space in which conflicting forces cohabit: the whites vs the natives, the East vs the West, and, in sum, good vs evil. With its re-emergence in recent decades, both inside the United States and outside its borders, this space is being re-described as a more permeable, fluid one, in which different communities cohabit and diverse movements occur. Mateo Gil's Blackthorn (2011) provides an example of the bridging essence of some contemporary Westerns. In this new representational context, this essay aims to show how Gil's Western is inter-national, gender- and age-balanced, and multilingual and, thus, may be regarded as a good example of the revision and rebirth of the Western genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In 1985 American author Cormac McCarthy published Blood Meridian, a novel that is set against the backdrop of the conquest of the West, a momentous and still relevant process that has acquired quasi-mythical dimensions throughout history and that is undoubtedly embedded in the United States' national consciousness. In this article I will show the different mechanisms employed by Cormac McCarthy to deconstruct conventional Western narratives that glorify and sanction the Westward expansion as a courageous endeavour that shaped the American nation, hence underplaying the more devastating and pernicious side of this chapter of America's imperialistic undertakings. To that end, I will argue that McCarthy contests the main tenets of the crucial 1893 Frontier Thesis proposed by Frederick Jackson Turner, in particular the depiction of American colonial expansion as a source of progress and democratic development; likewise I will contend that, in Blood Meridian, McCarthy aligns himself with the ideas of New Western Historians that offer a revisionist perspective of the country's past, revealing such brutality and wickedness exerted in the appropriation of the western territories that seemed to deprive the process of any hope of God's mercy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last decade, Graham Allison's 'Thucydides trap' has become a predominant framework for analysing the prospect of great power conflict between the United States and China. The controversy surrounding this rise to prominence has reinvigorated a tradition of thinking about the effects of power parity on global order that previously flourished during the Cold War. This renewed attention has nevertheless come at a significant cost. By reconstructing the tradition from which the Thucydides trap emerges, a tradition that we call rise-and-fall theory, this article demonstrates how the ascendance of the Thucydides trap as a framework of analysis has obscured critical debates about the relationship between the rise and fall of competing powers and the onset of conflict. These debates problematize fundamental questions concerning how to conceptualize power, what types of interstate relations are to be analysed, and which causal mechanism(s) matter most in explaining revisionism and conflict. This article demonstrates how the Thucydides trap largely overlooks these debates, thereby providing analysts with less precise heuristics for thinking about the prospect of global conflict than they might otherwise have. We develop a more pluralistic approach to the application of rise-and-fall theory that makes use of its diverse perspectives and substantive divergences to provide more nuanced and holistic analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on tensions arising in multiple perspectives approaches as they are deployed in response to histories of atrocity and conflict. We call attention to the ways that multiple perspectives intersect with the challenges posed by competing memories of violence and questions of responsibility. Focusing on a peace education programme that sought to work with 'complex' perpetrator histories in Cambodia, we explore how peace education can produce its intended aims of building dialogue and empathy across groups while, coextensively, enabling space for potentially harmful forms of historical revisionism. We show how the multi-perspectivity in peace education can be misaligned with the subjectivities that it seeks to reconcile or dignify in the present and reflect on the need for peace educators to develop approaches that move beyond the presentation of 'perspective' and identity as synonymous. We conclude by calling attention to other potential figurations of shared responsibility within peace education.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dustin D. Stewart's book, "Futures of Enlightenment Poetry," challenges the traditional understanding of Enlightenment poetry as solely focused on reason and empirical observation. Stewart argues that there is a neglected tradition of devotional poetry associated with a reactionary Counter-Enlightenment that should be included in our understanding of the period. He explores the themes of afterlife and futurity in the poetry of Edward Young, Elizabeth Singer Rowe, and Mark Akenside, showing how their meditations on these topics offer insight into the development of eighteenth-century poetry. Stewart's book also examines the influence of spiritualist and mortalist poetics on the works of later poets, such as William Wordsworth, Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, and Emily Dickinson. Overall, the book provides a fresh perspective on Enlightenment poetry and its relevance to contemporary debates. [Extracted from the article]

In January of 2015 Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the newly built extravagant and highly controversial presidential palace. Sixteen warriors representing all of the former Turkic empires in full costume were present at the welcoming ceremony. This paper uses Volkan's psycho‐political framework to understand state‐led efforts of historical revisionism which manifest itself in historical glories and nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire. The central argument posits that grandiose or mega projects strategically serve historical revisionism in Turkey, amplifying selected glories of Turkish society to bolster support for authentic and national narrative, known as "yerli ve milli (domestic and national)" [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first ten amendments to the federal Constitution have no formal title. It is only by cultural tradition that Americans refer to these provisions as our national "Bill of Rights." Until recently, most scholars assumed that this tradition could be traced back to the moment of ratification. Over the last decade or so, however, a number of scholars have challenged this assumption. These "Bill of Rights revisionists" claim that Americans did not commonly refer to the first ten amendments as "the bill of rights" until the twentieth century. Prior to that, most Americans either did not believe they had a national bill of rights, or they would have more likely pointed to the Declaration of Independence as the country's "bill of rights." If the revisionists are right, then a substantial portion of constitutional historical scholarship is shot through with historical error, in particular scholarship supporting the incorporation of the Bill of Rights as part of the Fourteenth Amendment. This Article conducts an exhaustive investigation of political, legal, and cultural references to the "bill of rights" from the time of the Founding to Reconstruction (and beyond). These references, most of which are presented here for the first time, prove that the revisionist claims about the first ten amendments are false. Long before the twentieth century, and decades before Reconstruction, Americans commonly referred to the 1791 amendments as "the Bill of Rights." These references vastly outnumber historical references to the Declaration of Independence as a "bill of rights," and indicate that nineteenth-century Americans were not at all confused about the meaning and content of their national "Bill of Rights." If any revision is in order, it is the need to revisit and revise our understanding of how post-Civil War Americans abandoned the original federalist understanding of the Bill of Rights and embraced a new nationalist understanding of their enumerated rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the necessity of embracing revision in writing, emphasizing the importance of being open to feedback and continually improving one's work. Topics include the challenges of revising drafts, the humility required to admit room for improvement, and the process of sculpting a story through careful revision with the help of trusted editors and peers.