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Challenges in Digital Ethnography
2020
Abstract The article explores ethical challenges in digital media ethnography in the field of militant political Islam, pointing to the dilemma that arises in doing research on Islam as part of the securitised research funding system. Expanding on discussions in anthropology about the principles of “do no harm” and “be open and honest about your work”, the authors reflectively contextualise the interrelated notions of “Jihadism” and “Salafism” and examine how these categories serve as “floating signifiers”. Examining one particular incident from the digital fieldwork leads to discussions of transparency, anonymity and shifting forms of “publicness” in the digital sphere.
Jews under Islam in early modern Morocco in travel chronicles
2020
This paper addresses the relationship between the ideological and legal structures that discriminated against Jews in early modern Morocco and its reflection in social practices. The study shows th...
THE UTOPIA OF REBIRTH: ALEKSANDR BOGDANOV'S KRASNAIA ZVEZDA
1984
Los fundamentos de la visualidad de la Templanza. Formación de su tipología iconográfica hasta el siglo XIV
2020
La Templanza, como una de las Virtudes Cardinales, ha sido objeto de reflexión por parte de los pensadores desde la Antigüedad, cuando se sentaron las bases de este concepto. A pesar de la ausencia de unos claros precedentes visuales, la Templanza configuró su visualidad en el medievo al igual que sus compañeras. Dicha ausencia motivó una gran variedad de concreciones icónicas de esta virtud mediante diferentes y numerosos atributos. Las famosas “iconologías” no recogen la mayoría de estos atributos y tipos iconográficos, al igual que la bibliografía. Por este motivo, proponemos un estudio diacrónico de la visualidad de la Templanza desde sus orígenes hasta el siglo XIV, atendiendo al signi…
Eric Fernie, Romanesque Architecture: The First Style of the European Age. (Pelican History of Art Series.) New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. P…
2015
Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger – the First One Not to Become a Blind Man? Political and Military History of the Bryennios Family in the 11th and Ea…
2020
Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger has a place in the history of Byzantium as the author of one of the works devoted to the Komnenos family coming to power. This outstanding observer and talented leader, who was fascinated by the person of his father-in-law Alexius I Komnenos, came from a family whose ambitions were no less than the those in the one into which Nikephoros himself married. His father and grandfather, also his namesake, were those who dreamed of an imperial crown for themselves and tried to reach for it armed. Apart from defeat, they both faced punishment which was blinding. One of those who captured and ordered the father of Nikephoros the Younger to be blinded was his future f…
Islamic Shores Along the Black Atlantic
2016
Within the conceptual discussions of ‘Muslim diaspora’, the intersection between cultural blackness and Islam has received little attention. Yet its investigation is necessary to understand the increasing conversion to Islam among people who associate themselves with cultural blackness. In this context, Islam seems to offer new means for resistance and liberation, and contributes to transnational countercultures directed against racism and socio-economic marginalisation in post-colonial societies. Using Gilroy’s ideas of ‘the Black Atlantic’ and ‘diaspora’, we aim to develop an analytical framework to understand processes of black Muslim identity formation. The empirical foundation is provi…
Perpetuating Anti-Muslim Discrimination through the Interpretation of Religious Equality in the European Court of Human Rights
2018
AbstractFaced with widespread prejudice and discrimination, European Muslims are increasingly resorting to the European Court of Human Rights as a last-ditch strategy to transform state policies toward minority faiths. While the Court has a mandate to protect religious freedom and equality, the conservative and sometimes biased way in which it has interpreted these concepts has enabled the persistence of stark asymmetries in the legal and social statuses of different religions. Using an analysis of relevant cases, this article seeks to highlight the judicial processes that currently sustain Muslim subordination and pinpoint specific reforms that could reverse the trend.
Today is already Yesterday: The Glossa XX1 architectural project for the Italian Memorial in Block 21 at Auschwitz
2012
Abstract The architect of the proposed Glossa XX1 Architectural Project for the Italian Memorial in Block 21 at Auschwitz presents and elucidates the restorations it involves and its response to criticisms made by the director of the Auschwitz Museum.
Una lectura teológica del sermón de José María Cos
2015
<p>El presente trabajo hace una lectura teológica de un sermón insurgente de José María Cos y puede ser considerado un capítulo en la historia de la teología en América Latina, un área todavía poco desarrollada, y es necesario hacer nuevos estudios en este campo. El artículo se inserta en la nueva historiografía que se ha interesado por la religiosidad de los curas insurgentes y resalta la motivación cristiana del padre Cos, quien se había volcado hacia la praxis política de la independencia de México motivado en primera instancia por su fe cristiana. El artículo concluye aseverando que José María Cos forma entonces parte de una larga tradición de sacerdotes políticos en la historia d…