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The Ghost of the Ottoman Scourge: Ottoman Hauntology and Dystopia in Socialist Yugoslav History Textbooks (1945–1990) 奥斯曼帝国祸害的幽灵：南斯拉夫社会主义历史教科书（1945-1990 年）中的奥斯曼幽灵学与乌托邦

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.175

Bakir Ovčina

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'You Can Resurrect Me, but Only Piecemeal': Embodied Texts and the Heterotopian Regeneration of the Cyborg 你可以复活我，但只能是零碎的"：嵌入式文本与异托邦式的半机械人再生

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.181

Dominique Ubbels

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Agnosticism and the Ethics of Belief: Are there Moral Reasons to Suspend Judgement on God’s Existence? 不可知论与信仰伦理：暂缓判断上帝的存在是否有道德理由？

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2024-02-21 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.170

Lily Tappe

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Introduction: Decolonizing the University 引言:大学非殖民化

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.162

Amira Fretz, D. Helmich

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Review: Unplanned Visitors: Queering the Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic Space 回顾:意外访客:颠覆家庭空间的伦理与美学

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.139

Martin Van Wijk

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Introduction: (Re)Building the City 引言:(重新)建设城市

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.147

D. Helmich, Keerthi Sridharan

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Ineffable Poetics: Negotiating Exile and Literary Self-Expression via Wittgenstein’s City Metaphor 不可言喻的诗学:从维特根斯坦的城市隐喻谈流亡与文学自我表达

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.129

Sophie Fernier

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Negotiating, Navigating and the Neoliberal University: A Conversation with Rosemarie Buikema 谈判、导航和新自由主义大学:与罗斯玛丽·布伊科玛的对话

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.125

Bethany Gum

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Review: Resisting Neo-Liberalism in Higher Education Volume 2: Prising Open the Cracks 评论:抵制高等教育中的新自由主义第二卷:撬开裂缝

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.117

Prithvik Sen Choudhary

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Getting by with my Yaars: Analyzing Decoloniality and the University through Yaariyan, Gupshup and Baithak 与我的Yaars相处:通过Yaariyan, Gupshup和Baithak分析非殖民化和大学

Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-01 DOI: 10.33391/jgjh.122

Syeda Rabeea Ahmad

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