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There is no longer any serious contender to quration as central approach to social science. Nonetheless, it is worthwhile to recount the developments of the qurative turn and what they mean for our understanding of global politics.
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- 1.
Historical records show that there was a persistent, if rather tired tradition for wearing this sentence on robes for graduation during the 2020s, 30s and 40s as counter-reaction to quration.
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Archival records have been backed up here https://projectqsydney.com/.
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The physical destruction of their HQ in the mega bush fires that destroyed large parts of New South Wales in 2028 certainly also was a factor in the breakdown of academic engagement.
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halo pembaca yang budiman! [note to production—this one keeps glitching, can you please check the code?].
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We did consider including the one with the cephalopods, but they seemed close to figuring out how to stabilize the Ψ prism transmission to connect to other branches, which would have obviously jeopardized our own research.
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Surely the diversity of scholarly references in itself is sufficient proof for the many-worlds interpretation. At the same time, transmission was challenging with such vast amounts of data, resulting in data loss such as with the transmission from Patrick Thaddeus Jackson where the reference list could not be recovered.
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Horn, L., Mert, A., Müller, F. (2023). Introduction—The Qurative Turn in Global Politics. In: Horn, L., Mert, A., Müller, F. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Politics in the 22nd Century. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13722-8_1
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