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Rejuvenating democracy : age, knowledge, and the right to vote
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisAt the core of democracy is a simple idea: one person, one vote. However, all democracies disenfranchise citizens below a certain age. What justifies this practice? The answer seems obvious: voting isn’t a children’s game. ... -
An in/divisible whole : time, space, and technologies of mediation in the Musée de l'Homme
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis examines the development of cinema as part of the broader institutional ecology of the Musée de l’Homme between the 1930s and 1960s. In particular, it asks how film was used to analyse, illustrate, promote, and ... -
The starry heavens above and the moral law within : Kant’s grounding of freedom in experience by way of a principle of intellectual causality, discovered in his third Critique
(University of St Andrews, 2021-06-28) - ThesisKant claims in his third Critique (1790) to have proven that the idea of freedom is scibilium, known with certainty. My aim is simply to take his claim seriously. This involves the attempt, which Kant himself suggests in ... -
Ambiguity, nostalgia, dialectic : Saharan nation-states and the legacy of nomadic pastoralism
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The owners : creative processes and personhood in the peasant community of San Pablo de Inkawasi (Lambayeque, Peru)
(University of St Andrews, 2021) - ThesisThis thesis is an exploration of how the Quechua-speaking peasants of the community of San Pablo de Inkawasi, in the Andes of northern Peru, make, grow or own things, domestic plants and animals and their own children; ...
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