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    Constitutional Origins of Ethnic Nationalism: Cultural Aporia of a Nation-State.Zaal Andronikashvili - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):123-144.
    ExcerptIn the spring of 2021, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, received a non-paper titled “West Balkans—A Way Forward.” The scandalous paper envisaged a redrawing of several national borders in the West Balkans. Among other changes, it proposed “the unification of Kosovo and Albania” and the “joining of larger parts of the Republika Srpska’s territory with Serbia.”1 However, this scandalous proposition, which the EU preferred to meet with silence, was not limited to a redrawing of the borders. What (...)
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    Identity Discourses in Western Late Modernity and the Notion of “Liminal Space”.Hartmut Behr & Felix Rösch - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):103-121.
    1. IntroductionConstructing narratives that can combat people’s unease about their sense of belonging, by providing a sense of certainty and steadfastness, is a recurrent affect in the history of humanity.1 Perhaps change is, however, the only constant in this history. Over a hundred years ago, Max Weber bemoaned the transition to a rationalized modernity as “the disenchantment of the world,”2 which in turn had been inspired by similar concerns expressed by Friedrich Schiller in his poem “The Gods of Greece” (“Die (...)
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    Introduction: Narratives of Belonging—The Interrelation between Ontological-Epistemological Observations and Narrative Methodology.Hartmut Behr & Felix Rösch - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):3-19.
    1. IntroductionIn a recent editorial, the Lancet reported that one of the consequences of pandemics is the detrimental impact “on the mental health of affected populations,” and the current COVID-19 one is no different. Since its out-break at the end of 2019, “depressed mood, anxiety, impaired memory, and insomnia” are constant companions of people around the world. Many even experience “stress, burnout, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.” Amongst its concerns, the Lancet notes the rising “misuse of substances” as a consequence (...)
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  4. The Savage Savants.Robert D’Amico - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):145-154.
    ExcerptDavid Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. Pp. 704. The Dawn of Everything is not just a massive book in terms of its total number of pages but also in the amount of archaeological evidence discussed concerning human “prehistory.” The authors range over current disputes within their disciplines as well as discussing in some detail political philosophies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In spite of its (...)
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    The Early Christian Origins of Secularization.Eric Hendriks-Kim - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):155-157.
    ExcerptDavid Lloyd Dusenbury, The Innocence of Pontius Pilate: How the Roman Trial of Jesus Shaped History. London: Hurst Publishers, 2021. Pp. 272. The Innocence of Pontius Pilate by David L. Dusenbury of the Danube Institute is a profound reflection on the differentiation of secular and religious authority that should excite theologians, historians, believers, as well as historical sociologists. The point of departure is the question of the innocence or guilt of Pilate, the Roman magistrate who condemned Jesus to death, which (...)
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    Nationality of Food: Cultural Politics on the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Food Museums.Eunju Hwang & Jin Suk Park - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):21-41.
    1. IntroductionIn 2020, when the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certified Chinese salted pickled vegetables from Sichuan called pao cai, hina’s media, including the state-run Global Times newspaper, reported the news as if China had won the international standard for kimchi making,1 although the ISO clearly stated in the certification document that the certification did not apply to kimchi.2 This reporting provoked Koreans, and it quickly became a cultural dispute between the two countries, at least in the media and social (...)
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    Belonging in Aboriginal Australia: A Political “Cosmography”.Stephen Muecke - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):67-83.
    1. IntroductionIt is an increasingly accepted protocol to situate oneself discursively in order to approach a set of problems. This protocol, consolidated by Donna Haraway’s famous “situated knowledge,” is also evident in everyday Indigenous Australian practice.1 I begin, therefore, with my long association with the Goolarabooloo community in Broome, North-West Australia, and in particular with Paddy Roe, who started teaching me in the late 1970s. This text attempts to translate his sense of belonging to that territory, an attachment he had (...)
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    Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging.Chih-yu Shih - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):43-65.
    IntroductionThis paper employs Confucianism to illustrate a kind of differential or benevolent love, which people give in accordance with their relations and roles. In this sense, Confucian benevolent love is more of a duty to create mutual belonging than an emotion of solidarity.1 This benevolent love contrasts with the universal love of liberalism and the resultant solidarity that those who express this form of love feel for one another—these people often being the distant and unacquainted—whose presence would puzzle Confucian leaders (...)
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  9. Comfort in Rootlessness.Arno Tausch - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):158-161.
    ExcerptAndrei S. Markovits, The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness. Foreword by Michael Ignatieff. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2021. Pp. 328. The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness is the autobiography of the well-known American political scientist Andrei S. Markovits and was published in 2021 by Central European University Press. After the 328 pages of text in American English, readers will recognize the author’s great fondness not only for analytical political science, sports, Italian opera, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, (...)
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  10. A Way to Transcend Boundaries: Pluralist Theology, Shūsaku Endō, and Global IR.Atsuko Watanabe - 2023 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2023 (202):84-102.
    1. IntroductionHaving been adapted into a movie by Martin Scorsese in 2016, Silence is Shūsaku Endō’s most famous novel outside of Japan. Initially published in 1966, the novel is about seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries who secretly make a voyage to Japan in search of their spiritual Father who has reportedly renounced his faith after being tortured by local authorities. In his foreword to Endō’s Silence, Scorsese, a devout Catholic and long-standing admirer of Endō’s work, claims that the novel is “about the (...)
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