The Transnistrian conflict, a legacy of the dissolution of the USSR, has traditionally been analysed as an intractable frozen conflict sustained by Russian military presence, geoeconomic dependency, and unresolved identity cleavages. This article re-examines the case in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, asking how the war has reconfigu…
The expansion of platform-mediated gig work in large emerging economies has reinvigorated debates about labour informality and social inclusion. India and Brazil, the world's largest democracies, share structural similarities: extensive informal sectors, deep socio-economic inequality, and incomplete social-protection architectures. India's gig …
Recently, social class has been gaining importance in Turkish daily politics. There are notable efforts made by the main opposition party, the CHP, to bring the issue to the centre of political debate. Nevertheless, far too little empirical scholarly attention has been paid to understand its role in Turkish political attitudes and behavior. Contrar…
The present study investigates the theological anthropology of the body as it stands between two radically opposed eschatological horizons: the transhumanist promises of technological immortality and the Orthodox Christian vision of bodily resurrection and cosmic transfiguration. Drawing on patristic soteriology, the theology of theosis, and Orthod…