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I argue that as we move in the twenty-first century we need a new paradigm in global philosophy, which I call "interjacency." Philosophical authenticity in an age of rapid globalization must take a new form, one which respects the fact that one's intellectual location is to lie both among and between many worlds of thought. My argument will be that JanMohamed's important typology for the border intellectual therefore needs to be supplemented; that, in addition to syncretic and specular border intellectuals, a third type must be recognized: the interjacent border intellectual. I detect early hints of a movement in this direction in the original philosophical writings of twentiethcentury philosophers in India, whose dominant paradigm of self-understanding nevertheless remained syncretism, transculturalism, and fusion, and have found more evident articulations in recent mixed-race philosophy and mestizo theory. Living in the cracks between cultures, it is increasingly evident, is a freeing and enabling way to live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis paper explores the role of Italian publishers and intellectuals in Buenos Aires during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines how their activities relied on the concept of Latinity to strengthen collaboration between Italy and Argentina. By examining key publishing initiatives, it highlights the close ties between the two countries, forged through Italian immigration and a shared commitment to national development. The paper begins by analyzing the birth of an Italo-Argentine book market and the vital role of Italian associations in fostering bilateral cultural exchanges. It then discusses the influence of Italian publishers and intellectuals like Basilio Cittadini, Giovan Battista Cuneo, and Piero Barbera, whose works sought to promote Italy and Argentine’s transnational identity as sister nations and advocated for international solidarity. The paper concludes by reflecting on the publishing efforts during the Centenary of Argentina’s Independence, which contributed to shaping a transnational and transcultural Italo-Argentine community. This community laid the foundation for enduring cultural connections and dialogue, despite the challenges posed by rising nationalism and political changes in both countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1916 and 1918, a group of Chinese intellectuals opened a school in Paris for Chinese workers who came to Europe in aid of the Allied cause. One of them, Cai Yuanpei, created a textbook based on lectures he gave at the school, which included chapters on moral and intellectual topics. This article focuses on two of these chapters – History and Geography – and situates them within the context of Chinese modern history, curricular and pedagogical debates in mainland China, and the history of textbook publication at the time. In doing so, I argue that Cai Yuanpei utilised these chapters to instil critical thinking skills among workers in a pedagogical move that, while consistent with contemporary discussions on the goals of education, was nevertheless unique in the context of other contemporary approaches to education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the nineteenth century, the process of modernization penetrated deeply into Romanian society and also reached the rural world, which caused a series of changes. This article aims at researching the scope of the contribution that Romanian credit institutions had in the development of Romanian schools, churches, and cultural institutions at the time. For this purpose, the article used comparative research to review the balance sheets of Romanian credit institutions, as they were published in the media at that time, as well as documents from several archives throughout Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper presents the work-in-progress catalogue of old Hungarian books belonging to “Lucian Blaga” Central University Library of Cluj - Napoca (BCU Cluj): of this ongoing work, I present here the catalogue of the books printed between 1484-1630. The material is, therefore, organised chronologically, following the principles established in the first retrospective bibliography of old Hungarian books by Károly Szabó, the first librarian of the University Library in Cluj and of the Transylvanian Museum Society, whose (old) book collections are currently preserved at BCU Cluj, while for the copy-specific descriptions, I myself formulated a set of criteria. From the time span under scrutiny, I counted 425 titles in 522 volumes, a number which comprises the duplicates, but does not include all fragments of books – many of them still unidentified – that will be inserted in the catalogue after the processing of the entire collection of old Hungarian books. During the cataloguing process, I attached particular importance to provenance research. Beside the institutional provenance (Library of the Transylvanian Museum Society – University Library of Cluj), this also comprises previous book owners, since I consider that book history is inseparably connected to the history of their use, which can be uncovered only by identifying the former possessors. Such details bring significant contributions to intellectual history, revealing intellectual networks active in Transylvania between the 16th and the 19th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At key moments in history, political understanding and action are irrevocably transformed. What makes such moments of transformation possible? This article examines the emergence of African nationalism in South Africa, following the multivocal appeal to African nationhood made by proto-nationalist leaders and intellectuals. In doing so I examine how new political imagination can reconfigure the structure of political relations and create powerful new possibilities for political organizing and action. African proto-nationalist leaders were 'intermediary intellectuals' who used African nationhood to speak to three different political logics of their key audiences: a 'progressive nationhood' to their white colonial audience, a 'unifying nationhood' to their missionary-educated African audience, and a 'traditional nationhood' to their rural African audience. African nationhood thus had a multivocal appeal which allowed proto-nationalist leaders to bring otherwise divided audiences to support a common political project. By bridging these divided communities, proto-nationalist leaders were able to combine resources and strategies from once separated domains into novel forms of political power. Transformation in political understanding was thus a critical enabler of innovation in organization and action because it built a political project where new connections between African and colonial worlds were made politically 'thinkable'. Speaking to the scholarship on political repertoires and the sociology of anti-colonial intellectuals, this study has broader implications for the role political ideas play in political transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research falls within the realm of civilizational communication between the Eastern and Western Islamic worlds during the medieval period, focusing on the scientific contributions of Eastern scholars in the Maghreb. Historically, the Maghreb has been a focal point for the East due to social movements between the two regions. These relations strengthened with the Islamic conquest and the influx of mass and individual migrations to the Maghreb, including religious thinkers, advocates of different doctrines, and political figures. As a result, Eastern ruling families emerged in the region. The flow of scholars and intellectuals from the East to the region also increased, necessitating an understanding of these immigrants through translations, exploring the reasons for their migration to the Maghreb, and recognizing their role in the intellectual movement in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how "Western" mechanical printing figured prominently in the expansion of imperialists' interests in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Korea as both the main technological imperative and the hegemonic discourse. Negotiating and compromising with the native practices and deep history of print in Korea, the implantation of industrial printing fundamentally transformed the country's literary cultures and epistemology. All participants in this change—Christian missionaries, Japanese colonizers, and Korean intellectuals—contributed to the domination of typography that gave rise to the circulation of printed matter on an unprecedented scale, which brought about the wide usage of the easy Korean alphabet and expanded readership even by women and nonelites. The discourse centering on typography as the symbol of modernity and progress also led the imperialists to redefine and recategorize Korean antiquarian books. The practices and projects that developed, such as Japanese collectors' cannibalization of Korean books to put together imperial albums or binding Korean editions in Western styles, mirrored the colonial body politics that rendered the colonized inferior subjects in the material dimension. Typographic domination was vital to imperialists' expansion in Korea not simply because it helped disseminate their ideas to Korean readers but also because it subordinated Korean written culture to the one introduced by the imperialist powers. More important, the typographic domination engineered by Japanese colonialists became so naturalized as to continue and shape the field of bibliography in postcolonial Korea, in what can be best described as bibliographical monoculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1980 left-wing terrorism presented itself in a light that had remained under the radar until then, that of generational conflict. At the height of the subversive attacks that coincided with the beginning of its end a number of families of the ruling class, of politicians, journalists, professionals, experienced the drama of one of their sons militating in an armed organization. The most clamorous cases include the son of Carlo Donat-Cattin, one of the most influential politicians of the Republic, and two of the assassins of Walter Tobagi, who were sons of well-known Milanese bourgeois intellectuals. Through these and other stories, this article which draws on material from the trial sources focuses on terrorism as a reckoning between fathers and sons, when patriarchal society suffered a decisive blow. A revealing view of the characteristics and limits of Italian modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The text discusses the life and work of Józef Czapski, a Polish artist, soldier, and intellectual who lived through significant historical events in the 20th century. Czapski's experiences in the Soviet Gulag, his survival during the Katyń massacre, and his role as a public intellectual are highlighted. The text also explores Czapski's artistic output, his personal identity as a gay Catholic leftist, and his contributions to Polish intellectual and artistic circles. The article emphasizes Czapski's complex identity and his impact on Polish and European history. [Extracted from the article]

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This paper addresses the fifth-century comic coinage gnômotupos, which has not otherwise received scholarly attention. Translators of Aristophanes and Aristotle have typically glossed it into English as "maxim-coining" (with equivalents in other languages). This is a sensible inference from a fourth-century use of γνώμη, "maxim", and the verb τύπτειν, "stamping". It also tracks the importance of maxims to Sophistic-era adoption of wisdom-culture and the lore of the Seven Sages. Nevertheless, this typical gloss is incorrect. The term instead emphasizes "idea", as an insight, technique, or view relevant to some matter. "Stamping" (τύπτειν) an idea means coming up with an apt idea and giving it shape and articulacy. In a characteristic use of the adjective, Aristophanes speaks of gnômotupoi andres (Frogs). These are men who are skilled at "fashioning ideas", coming up with their content and their form. My claim is that Aristophanes has captured something crucial about the period we call the Sophistic movement or Greek enlightenment. The formulation, circulation, and competition of ideas is a matter of increasing self-consciousness in Athens. So too are those who formulate, circulate, and compete in them: intellectuals or, as gnômotupoi andres might be translated, "ideas-men." I even contend that those referred to as "sophists", sophistai, may in many ways be understood as gnômotupoi andres. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Martin Mulsow's Knowledge Lost provides a window into the precarious world of intellectuals in northern Germany around 1700. This essay considers that book's place in Mulsow's work and in the intellectual history of radical enlightenment through the prism of contemporary activity in Hamburg and its surroundings, in particular as informed by the work of those who exchanged ideas most extensively with English intellectual culture. It suggests that themes of obligation and expectation as they emerge in dialogue with Mulsow's work might provide means to extend his consideration of the material culture of knowledge around 1700 and to reshape its engagement with religious orthodoxy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Brazilian geographer Milton Santos is known for his sophisticated theorisation of geographical space. Less well known, however, is the role that Milton Santos’ experience at the University of Dar‐es‐Salaam (from 1974 to 1976) played in his work. Structured by Julius Nyerere as the core for the development of an independent and socialist Tanzania, the Dar‐es‐Salaam School hosted several Marxist intellectuals such as Walter Rodney, Issa Shivji, and David Slater, as well as Milton Santos. This paper seeks to unpack Santos’ Tanzanian experience through literature review and research in his archives at the Institute of Brazilian Studies, University of São Paulo (Brazil). The idea is also to discuss the extent to which the discussions of the Dar‐es‐Salaam School influenced his conceptual framework, including one of his later definitions of geographical space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article delves into the mysterious mention of the 'Nicolaitans' in Louis the German's dream, as recorded in the Annals of Fulda from 874. Historically associated with heresy, particularly related to sexual misconduct, the term has sparked various interpretations, such as links to married clerics, imperial foes, or heretical beliefs. By examining the historical context and proposing different hypotheses, the text aims to uncover the identity and significance of the Nicolaitans during the Carolingian period. It also discusses the presence of Nicolaitan heresy in a Carolingian manuscript and its potential political ramifications, including its connection to accusations of adultery against Empress Judith. The article sheds light on how accusations of heresy were wielded as political tools in the Carolingian era's power struggles, illustrating the intricate relationship between religious dissent, political maneuvering, and the establishment of Carolingian authority. [Extracted from the article]

Based on semi-structured interviews with Tibetan teachers in Qinghai Province in Northwest China, this article explores how the teachers, who hold subject positions as pedagogical professionals and local intellectual elites, understand the value and implications of education for Tibetan people, and how they navigate their profession in the local education system. Findings show that the teachers demonstrate strong professional commitments towards the development of Tibetan society, which embodies an entanglement of knowledge and skills acquisition, Tibetan cultural and language preservation, and selective transformation of value and behaviourial orientations among students as well as parents. Firstly, the teachers are committed to students' acquisition of school knowledge and skills which they believe would lead to better socio-economic outcomes for individuals and their families. Secondly, the teachers, especially the Tibetan language teachers, elaborated on the importance of education and their professional roles in transmitting Tibetan culture and language. Finally, the teachers attempt to make students motivated and competent to cope with rising educational and social competition, and make parents more supportive of and involved in school education. These findings show that the Tibetan teachers play crucial roles in the socio-economic and cultural transformations and development of Tibetan society in China, and shed light on their active engagement with modernisation discourses and projects. The paper also contributes to domestic and international scholarly discussions on teachers' work and professional roles, education for ethnic minorities, education in developing contexts, and ethnic minorities' engagement with modernisation (or similar processes such as globalisation). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ferdinand Tönnies' main legacy in social theory, the community-society dichotomy developed in his work Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Society, GuG) of 1887, showed its potential for grasping but also for creating social reality during the First World War (WWI), a conflagration welcomed by some of the most prominent intellectuals throughout Europe. One the most important terms for mobilising support for the war effort in Germany was Gemeinschaft (community), which Tönnies had opposed to (capitalist, modern, western) Gesellschaft (society). Many German intellectuals came to defend the now notorious "ideas of 1914", inter alia Volksgemeinschaft (folk community), the toxic potential of which was most clearly revealed later under National Socialism. This served to relativise the ideas of 1789 – liberty, equality, and fraternity. The folk community was evoked together with a national truce between the social classes over the distribution of material and symbolic capital, known as the Burgfrieden, literally, the peace of the citadel, mirroring the Union Sacrée (Sacred Union) called forth by President Raymond Poincaré in France in 1914. Volksgemeinschaft figured in much of the polemics of Germany's intellectual class throughout the war. Tönnies' dichotomy and his variations on the theme formed one of the most significant conceptual inventions to be mobilised in wartime public opinion, for instance when Thomas Mann asserted a fundamental difference between western European Zivilisation and German Kultur – a dichotomy already found in Tönnies' work of 1887 – in Mann's Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen (Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man), written between 1915 and 1918. While Tönnies did not claim Germany had a monopoly over culture, he had suggested in 1887 that the United States lacked national character, ushering in the notion that the degree of community depended on nationhood. Defining features of community – the sense of common appurtenance or the devotion of the individual to the Whole – characterised early German as opposed to Durkheimian social theory, which was more concerned with the division of functions and exchanges, as can be seen in the work of leading members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (German Sociological Association, DGS). While Tönnies' GuG offered incisive concepts for social critique, his positions on WWI, like those of other early 20th century social theorists, raise the question of how such a perspicacious intelligentsia could have been won over by causes now viewed as calamitous, at a time when Europe's belligerent nations' intellectual elite were accusing one another of myopia and intellectual dishonesty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article responds to the familiar characterisation of Mary Warnock as someone whose major achievements as a public intellectual, such as the Report on human fertilisation and embryology, were at the expense of philosophical rigour and integrity. I explicate her lifelong commitment to practical morality, and her understanding of ethics and of the role of feelings in moral judgments, before analysing her important distinction between the private and public moral attitude. 'Public philosophy' is what she believes is necessary for those seeking to make a difference in the world of law and policy. I highlight the importance for her of securing 'acceptable' legal outcomes, especially on issues of bioscientific development which are the subject of irreconcilable moral disagreements. I compare her distinction with others and contrast its use with relevant writing by John Rawls and Thomas Nagel. Finally, I defend her against misjudged criticism from her philosophical contemporaries, most notably Richard Hare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the integrity of academic work has always been vitally important, since the establishment of the International Center for Academic Integrity in 1992 increasing attention has been paid to the area. The term academic integrity now explicitly appears in policy and in job titles or offices tasked with either detection, training, or both. Equally, regulatory, quality and standards agencies, such as Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) in the UK, and the Australian Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) have mobilised around academic integrity with frameworks, lexicons, charters and networks that offer national guidance and promote shared action and understanding. However, despite efforts to interrogate and standardise the use of the term 'academic integrity' from those working and researching in the field, it is often used inconsistently and frequently conflated with its opposite – academic misconduct – in practice. Our aim, in this paper, is to acknowledge a lack of clarity around the term 'academic integrity' and to address this ambiguity by offering a taxonomy of academic integrity. We will arrive at the taxonomy of academic integrity through philosophical conceptual analysis and making use of pre-existing philosophical work in virtue (and vice) epistemology. The outcome of this analysis will be a taxonomy of academic integrity that represents the various concepts related to it in an organised way, classified into distinct groups, along with a graphic to aid understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Judith A. Allen, a distinguished historian of gender, sexuality, crime, and first wave feminism, passed away in London in 2024. Her career spanned from Australia to America, Canada, and Britain, where she made significant contributions to the field of women's history. Allen's work focused on feminist readings of archival records, challenging traditional narratives and methodologies. She was a respected scholar, mentor, and teacher, leaving behind a lasting impact on the academic community. [Extracted from the article]

Public intellectual and subversive media personality, feminist and anarchist Germaine Greer wrote multiple innovative texts on feminine issues in the 1960s and 70s, and particularly on women's sexuality. Among her less researched texts were those published in counterculture magazines Oz and Suck, both characterized by original and trailblazing verbal and visual contents. In those texts, Greer presented her view of feminine sexuality as a revolutionary force in the struggle for equality, and in the process, provided women with essential, silenced knowledge about their bodies and sexualities. This article discusses Greer's sexual pedagogy for women based on her texts published in both magazines and on the visual images attached to them. These imagetexts are analyzed within the historical context of the sexual revolution and countercultural press of the 1960-70s in Britain and within the theoretical frameworks of critical sexual literacy and critical visual literacy and analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper addresses and contributes to one of the core debates concerning the usage of terminologies such as 'loyalists' and 'rebels', often ascribed to actors involved in the anti-colonial movements across the world. By taking the case of the Indian rebellion of 1857, the paper argues that moments such as this, more often than not, have subtle and nuanced reflections, and the trajectories of responses transcend simplistic categorisations. In the mid-nineteenth century colonial Bengal 'loyalism' of the middle-class intelligentsia towards the foreign rule contained internal contradictions, which was far more nuanced than has been portrayed in the last one and half centuries. Based on the contemporary reports, memoirs, and writings, the paper argues that while the nature of opposition and resistance were reflected in a rhetoric that was different, they emanated from similar sets of discontents, and would play a pivotal role in shaping the later-day discourse of nationalism in South Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which editor discusses various articles within the issue on topics including women's intellectual and familial relationships at Nostell Priory from 1550 to 1798; horizons of feminist, queer, and decolonial historiographical work.

The article "The Battle for Latin America" in Diplomatic History discusses Allen Wells's book, Latin America's Democratic Crusade, which argues that the struggle between dictators and democrats, not communists and capitalists, defined Latin American politics in the first half of the twentieth century. Wells challenges existing literature by highlighting the role of moderate reformers in the region's political landscape. The book traces the transnational struggle between democratic activists and dictators, shedding light on key figures and events that shaped Latin American politics from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Wells's work is praised for its comprehensive analysis of the region's political history, making it a significant contribution to the field of Latin American international history. [Extracted from the article]

During the Hu Jintao era, policy intellectuals participated in public debates, openly criticizing existing government policies. During the Xi Jinping era, despite regime efforts to tame intellectuals, some critical voices have retained influence over policymaking processes. What adaptation strategies have they utilized to circumvent the regime's control over public speech? This article points to two strategies. First, policy intellectuals formed shifting collaborations with both state and nonstate actors. Second, they utilized collaborations with state actors to enter consultative forums. The article finds that policy intellectuals not only formed Beijing-based alliances but also cultivated closer cooperation with local officials. By "going local" in this way, they bypassed Beijing's tightening political environment. This article focuses on two important policy intellectuals in the healthcare arena who have gone local. It also includes a comparison between these two policy intellectuals and seven of their prominent peers who did not go local, as well as with intellectuals from another policy arena: education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The memory of Hungary’s political transition of 1989, particularly in the context of public discourse, attracted scholarly attention soon after the events due to perceived failures in parliamentary democracy and a decline in social solidarity. Ongoing political challenges, which shape and define social identity, have sustained persistent scholarly interest in the memory of this transition. This paper explores how the transition was remembered at the turn of the millennium from a middle-ground perspective. We investigate whether the revolution lost its significance for intellectuals from the middle strata of Hungarian society – those who, as part of the cultural, scientific, and bureaucratic sub-elite, did not play a central role in collective decision-making or institutional reform but nonetheless contributed to the transformation from a secondary position. By virtue of their social status, these individuals later influenced the perspectives that shaped the memory of the regime change. Our findings are based on the analysis of 89 life-course interviews conducted between 1997 and 2010. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article author reflects on the challenges of conducting meaningful dialogue in today's fragmented intellectual and public spheres, marked by siloed thinking and information overload. Topics include the role of tribalism in shaping political discourse, the impact of filter bubbles and confirmation bias, and the importance of academic debate in fostering intellectual exchange despite societal pressures.

The article focuses on critiquing settler spectacle disguised as critical urban theory. Topics include the use of trauma for intellectual gain without relational responsibility, the weaponization of erasure in progressive commentary, and the perpetuation of colonial power dynamics through scholarly work that fails to address the structures it critiques.

Shanghai is usually conceived of as a modern metropolis. Yet the city retains historical spaces, for instance the Yu Garden, first built in 1559. Literati gardens were created by the scholar-officials of dynastic China, known as wenren, intellectual elites well-versed in poetry, calligraphy and sometimes painting, while taking up positions in the government. Originally private spaces, these sites are recognized as cultural heritage and open to the public today, and could be seen as surreal spaces where past and present, dream and reality blend. Taking Shanghai's Yu Garden as a case study, this article investigates how an anachronistic perspective of the surrealistic lens could connect the literati gardens to contemporary visitors and reveal values beyond their inherent ones as heritage sites. Via empirical accounts of my visits to the Yu Garden and briefly tracing the history of the site, I explored the surreality of the garden itself so as to provide the context. In the second part, I look at photographic representations of the Yu Garden with different creative intentions by the following photographers: Marc Riboud, Hu Jieming, Yu Wenhao and Dong Wensheng. Through visual analysis, I reveal how these representations chime with the surrealist discourses in different ways and how they bring about new ways to engage with historical sites. Having contextualized these contemporary representations, in the final part, I reflect upon my photographic practice. I make no apology for focusing on my own work, because my representation of the Yu Garden intends to evoke experiences not only of surreality, but even of transcendence, which will reclaim a space for spirituality much needed by Shanghai, the metropolis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Just outrageous things - like the fact that they used all those FBI documents in the hearing against Oppenheimer, but denied Oppenheimer's lawyer any access to them, saying that they were still classified. But because Oppenheimer let several months go by before reporting the conversation to US intelligence authorities, it became a key issue nearly a decade later, in subsequent hearings about Oppenheimer's trustworthiness. I mean, you know, it was a feeler, and Oppenheimer said: "No." End of story. B Bird: b But the security people were concerned about the fact that Oppenheimer didn't volunteer this information for three months. Chevalier thought that Oppenheimer should know what happened; Oppenheimer cut him off. [Extracted from the article]

Pakistan has a long history of social movements, some of which have challenged the military’s domination. However, apart from a short period after 1998 nuclear weapon tests by India and Pakistan, there has been limited opposition to nuclear weapons owned by the military. This paper examines one potential factor for this near absence: the intellectual arguments deployed by the main proponents of nuclear disarmament in Pakistan over the last 25 years. The post-1998 anti-nuclear critique in Pakistan has overwhelmingly focused on challenges pertaining safety and security, command and control, geopolitical imperatives of arms races, the operational limits of delivery systems like the short-range ballistic missiles and the risk of a nuclear war. We argue that such arguments inadvertently normalize nuclear weapons. Other arguments based on geopolitics make nuclear weapons appear inevitable in an anarchic world. Highlighting the consequences of a nuclear war has limited purchase in Pakistan where nuclear weapons are seen as the ultimate defense against all large-scale wars, nuclear and conventional. The alternative, we suggest, is to engage a broader critique focussed on the many ways in which nuclear weapons are implicated in everyday social and political life.

In the face of tremendous violence and multiple crises, we are reminded that ours should not only be a discipline that examines crises, but also one that actively contributes to their resolution. What does IR as a discipline owe—or what must we give—to the pressing concerns of our times? What do we, in IR, owe to each other as a scholarly community or professional class? This essay argues for a reinterrogation of our discipline’s relationship with ‘crisis’ as subject matter, method and motivation. It also makes a case for paying greater attention to our obligations to society and to one another as public intellectuals in need of collective methods to think across political and disciplinary divides. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the readership formation of an emerging modern Indian vernacular literature in the late nineteenth- and first four decades of the twentieth- century, and investigates the political significance of print as a new way of publishing. It simultaneously explores the tactics deployed by the vernacular intelligentsia to overcome the absence of an economically sound entrepreneurship in the print industry in Assam. While the Assamese print arena had to negotiate with the challenges posed by presence of an adjacent powerful print culture, that was, the Bengali print world, it also suffered from its backwardness in education which consequently resulted in the lack of readership. The paper explores the Assamese publicists' attempt to impose a boundary on its target readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How is a Sephardi-Mizrahi protest in Israel interconnected with a Western fascination with "Far East" civilization? This essay introduces The Jewish Communities in the Far East (Hebrew; Jerusalem, 1982), jointly published by key Zionist Sephardi organizations. Authored by Reuben Kashani, an Afghan-born intellectual who made significant contributions to various Sephardi-Mizrahi periodicals in Israel, alongside his broader Jewish readership, the book was designed to introduce East Asian cultures to Hebrew readers.This essay delves into the broader motivations behind the writing and publication of Kashani's 1982 book. I conclude that he aimed to challenge stereotypes and the assumption that the modernization of Asian and African Jewries necessarily requires Ashkenazi guidance, and emphasize the pioneering spirit and international engagement of these communities. In so doing Kashani also aimed to counter Ashkenazi dominance in both Zionist and Jewish historiographies, following the longer legacy of Sephardi-Mizrahi intellectual activism in the twentieth century. This approach disrupts prevailing narratives emphasizing domestic ethnic tensions in Israel, fostering a more multilayered examination of intra-Jewish hierarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is not proposed as what, strictly, is usually considered an academic article, since its fundamental objective is to offer a sense of intellectual and academic recognition, of respect and deep affection for the academic and intellectual career, but, above all, to the always twinned spirit that Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves shared with all those others (intellectuals, academics, peoples and/or communities in struggle), which he also embodied as part of his own r-existence as an expression of his irreducible connection and struggle for life. For this reason, the text follows the journey of an academic-intellectual-political relationship and friendship, marked by meetings, conversations, sharing, debates and creations in which we both learned to deepen the fight for the sustainability of everyone's life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Syed Farid Alatas is a Malaysian sociologist who has been highly influential in discussions about decolonising knowledge. He has also continued the legacy of his esteemed father, Syed Hussein Alatas, by furthering 'the School of Autonomous Knowledge' in the Malay Archipelago and beyond. This article presents a wide-ranging, comprehensive and rich dialogue between Farid and Leon Moosavi. In this conversation, pertinent questions are asked: How does Farid's approach to decolonising knowledge differ from other decolonial scholars? What exactly does Farid mean when he talks of 'intellectual imperialism', 'alternative discourses' and 'academic dependency'? This dialogue also explores Farid's extensive engagement with the Islamic/Muslim sphere, including topics such as: Ibn Khaldun, Muslim revivalism, Muslim sectarianism and the Islamisation of knowledge. The discussion also explores some potential critiques of Farid's intellectual contributions with challenging questions: Can Farid's theoretical ideals be applied in 'the real world' or are they confined to an audience of intellectual elites? Is Farid anti-Western? Or, actually, does his work inadvertently fall into the trap of Westerncentrism? This article offers a unique insight into the intellectual biography of one of the most notable social theorists of the current era. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Successive crises – social, environmental and political – have led some in global governance circles to advocate a more 'inclusive capitalism'. In this article, I show how this postcrisis language of inclusive capitalism was used by a specific subset of officials within the Bank of England: Those with high levels of experience in public sector and international official institutions. It is argued that these officials are 'organic intellectuals' who mobilise their experience of inter-institutional collaboration as a deliberative model for solving long-term social problems. The institutional experience of these officials and their concern with crises of trust in expertise facilitated the adoption of these models of communicative intervention. I draw on a novel dataset of Bank officials' career data and speeches, as well as twelve interviews with current and former Bank staff, to show who used this language, in what settings and what motivated its adoption. The article makes a novel contribution to debates about the motivations of key figures in central banks, suggesting that their actions go beyond reputation defence to encompass an expansive worldview of how capitalism might solve its myriad crises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the relationship between Latin American leftist movements and the university crisis of the 1960s and 1970s. Topics include the role of intellectuals and student activists in university reform, the transnational exchange of ideas and debates on educational reform, and the contributions of key figures like Darcy Ribeiro in shaping the discourse on higher education in the region.

The article focuses on the evolution of Mexican leftist movements during the 1960s, particularly after defeat of the ferrocarrilero movement and the influence of the Cuban Revolution. Topics include the rise of the new left through student and intellectual activism, the debates on political strategies like electoral participation versus armed struggle, and the cultural impact of the new left's transnational connections, including their engagement with global issues like the Vietnam War.

This introduction article establishes the territory for the Symposium What Was Cultural Economy? After setting out the reasoning behind the collection and its eight contributions, the introduction describes the terms on which the 'cultural economy' concept was launched, within the Open University's Faculty of Social Sciences, at the end of the 1990s. Noting the collective work involved, I highlight the role of Stuart Hall, and the brand of cultural studies he represents, as a key vector. Hall's position as totemic public intellectual obscures his work as a teacher, curriculum designer and colleague, channelling the 'cultural turn' through this internal academic context. As such, I also stress the OU's course team model of intellectual production, drawing from recent historiography on workshops as devices for the practice of collective intellectual and cultural work, coupling this to the figure of the 'vanishing mediator' as a driver of material and symbolic transformation. I then move to sketch out some of the key interpersonal relations, institutional contexts and intellectual trajectories through which cultural economy was first formulated. In conclusion, I ask what implications this little history might hold for a present-day journal engaged in the workshopping of ideas at increasingly international scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]