Alterity and Narrative

Alterity and NarrativeIntertwines identity and culture to demonstrate how identity is negotiated over a given history. Drawing from the fields of rhetoric, cultural studies, literature, and folkloristics, Kathleen Glenister Roberts argues that identity and the history of alterity in the West can be understood more clearly through narrative motifs. She provides analyses of these motifs including infanticide, universalism, the Tower of Babel, the warrior Other, the noble

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Peter Limbrick

Essays combine comparative and historical sociology with civilizational analysis and the study of multiple and alternative modernities

Estimates that public sector pension liabilities are about GBP1trillion - but the government publishes estimates of the liabilities of only half this level

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it opens the door to much-needed new approaches

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