POLITICS. Just got a new book about gaslighting, or claiming something obviously wrong to wind up a political opponent or to just confuse the situation.
Did you ever need to adjust some time series for the count of #EU members in a given year? I did. It turned out to be quite tedious, because I wanted to allow for the fact that not all enlargements happened at the first of January (so the membership count of that year is actually a fraction), and take lap years into account. Brexit included.
"... 1. Can Violence Be Turned into an Autonomous Object of Philosophical Reflection? ...
,,, . A typical tendency of modernity leads to avoiding the analysis of violence (especially visible, strong, bloody violence), liquidating it through a sort of easy “psychiatrization”: violent people are people who “are not well”—that is, crazy people. In most cases, however, psychiatry has nothing to do with it ... "
The rankings placed #Biden as the 14th best president in history, among the top 30% to serve in the Oval Office.
The report is a product of 154 experts — current or recent members of the American #PoliticalScience Association’s #presidential#politics division as well as scholars who recently published peer-reviewed research in related journals or academic presses.
If the Court of Justice of the European Union is, as is often argued, the most powerful international court the world has seen, why is serious resistance against it not more commonplace?
This is the question I ask in my PhD thesis, which I successfully defended at the #EUI last Friday. Today it has been made available open access through the university repository!
Fourth, to do this – combining micro and macro perspective – one needs to take an inter- and multi-disciplinary approach. #NewDiplomaticHistory greatly benefits from other disciplines or sub-disciplines, such as #politicalscience, #arthistory literary studies, #linguistics, #historyofideas or history of medicine, to name but a few. Finally, #emdiplomacy research needs to take up a global perspective that “challenges our self-evident beliefs and prevents us from being lured by the master narrative of #diplomacy as European innovation".
Gebke concludes by encouranging us not only to take a look at different (sub-)disciplines when researching #earlymodern diplomacy, but also to work in teams in order to connect the micro with the macro perspective. (6/6)
I only just learned of Peter Russell's passing on January 10. Beyond his important body of work, he was a generous colleague. Though I would not say I knew him, I had the pleasure of discussing Canadian political history, including both his and my own work, with Peter on a few occasions since arriving in Toronto. Rest in peace. @histodons
Anyone know a bookseller website that focuses on selling #academic works (and ships to the US)? Not a specific press, I know they often sell directly, but a more press-agnostic site. Think Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Waterstones, but for academic books. I'd like to browse various topics, knowing what I'm looking at is considered academic. And sometimes, I want to browse more in-depth or academic topics that wouldn't be on a general public site.
I suppose a university bookstore could work, but I think they tend to focus on what's required reading for the semester's courses, and I want a broader selection than that.
I think the problem I have with cancel culture--at least as directed towards institutions and corporations--is it feels a bit resistant to the reality of systemic exploitation under #capitalism. It's a very neo-liberal instinct to ostracize the "bad" capitalists until they behave like the "good" capitalists.
I'm not opposed to shades of grey and obviously your local burger shop isn't BP oil, but... We aren't going to boycott our way to liberation, let's be clear.
Update. Missed this one from Nov 2017: The #OpenAccess citation advantage (#OACA) is real and it "benefits male and female political scientists at similar rates. Thus, OA negates the gender citation advantage that typically accrues to male political scientists." https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096517000014