Toward a "New Humanism"? Time and Emotion in UNESCO's Science of World-Making, 1947–1951.
This article examines how the newly formed United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) aimed to construct a programme of social science research that would dispense with determinist theories of racial evolution and promote a new humanism for a postwar world. As scholars...
| Publicado en: | Journal of World History Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 1 - 33 |
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University of Hawai'i
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