Category: History & Area Studies
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West’s relations with Russian oligarchs became hostile during the war
This research indicates that Western relations with Russian oligarchs changed rapidly and chaotically after Putin’s war in Ukraine, and that the article frames these changes through the concept of oligarch-washing.
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Book reviews epidemic institutions across seven centuries
This research indicates that the book explores seven centuries of history to examine how societies dealt with epidemic disease and what made institutions better at coordinating responses and improving societal learning.
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Macassan Muslim contact shaped limited Aboriginal Islamic adoption
This research indicates that Macassan Muslims were early traders who introduced Islam to some Aboriginal communities, especially the Yolŋu, and that adoption often remained partial rather than complete.
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Spiritual legitimacy shaped maternal referral decisions in Akit care
This research indicates that spiritual and biomedical authorities coexist in Akit maternal care, and that referral delays were tied to negotiations for spiritual safety and moral accountability before clinical escalation.
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Ming-Qing morality books linked animal ethics to karmic justice
This research indicates that Ming and Qing morality books presented animals, merit-and-demerit ledgers, and karma as a connected system of moral causality.
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Ethnic German morale shifted amid Nazi occupation and repression
This research indicates that intelligence reports can be used to reconstruct shifts in morale, political loyalty, and intergroup relations among ethnic German civilians in Nazi-annexed Poland between 1942 and 1944.
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Yogyakarta’s garbage emergency reflects structural waste inequality
This research indicates that Yogyakarta’s garbage emergency is shaped by socio-spatial inequality, environmental injustice, neglect, and disavowal, and that waste should be understood as a socio-ecological crisis rather than only a disposal problem.
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Suprematist architecture is framed as speculative world-making
This research indicates that Russian Suprematist architecture was a conceptually rigorous speculative practice that sought to rethink architecture beyond utility, gravity, and historical type.
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Self-Help is proposed as a key influence on Toyota culture
This research indicates that Samuel Smiles’ Self-Help may have strongly influenced Sakichi Toyoda and, by implication, Toyota’s culture and the Lean world.
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Moscow enterprises enforced labor-based migrant inclusion under socialism
This research indicates that state-owned enterprises in late-Soviet Moscow helped manage migrant worker inclusion through labor-based conditionality and dormitory oversight.
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