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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"cultures of knowledge"”.
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Epistemic geographies of climate change: the IPCC and the spaces, boundaries and politics of knowing
Science, like other realms of human activity, has its geographies. It proceeds in and through space, and participates in the construction of the political and cultural geographies by which human interactions with the nonhuman come to be known, understood and governed. The phenomenon of climate …
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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
This dissertation argues that the Manchu conquest of China in the mid-seventeenth century transformed several ostensibly “European” sciences in the early modern period. The “Tartar war” between the weakened Ming dynasty (1368-1644), peasant rebels, and the Manchus—a semi-nomadic population from …
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Text, Knowledge and Truth In the Duchy of Luxembourg, 1666-1781
… by which communities in the Habsburg Duchy of Luxembourg produced texts, generated knowledge and claimed truth between the first Marian election of 1666 and the centenary celebration of her patronage in 1781. The introduction identifies the Duchy as a contested historiographical entity and …
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Kinship with country : acts of translation in the cross-cultural performance space : a case study on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia
Two maps of country represent the one continent: Australia, its lands and its peoples. One is an Indigenous map of a continent linked by the Songlines of the Western Desert Peoples' Creation Ancestors under Anangu Law. The other is a Western map of a continent divided by the state borders of …
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Kinship with country : acts of translation in the cross-cultural performance space : a case study on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Lands of Central Australia
Two maps of country represent the one continent: Australia, its lands and its peoples. One is an Indigenous map of a continent linked by the Songlines of the Western Desert Peoples' Creation Ancestors under Anangu Law. The other is a Western map of a continent divided by the state borders of …