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As far too many intellectual histories and theoretical contributions from the 'global South' remain under-explored, this volume works towards redressing such imbalance. Experienced authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. This includes specific case studies and reflexive accounts from African, South Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges. Hereby, they consider intellectual, practical and structural aspects and dimensions, to mark and build their respective positions. From their particular vantage points of (trans)disciplinary and transregional engagement, they sketch out potential pathways for addressing the unfinished business of conceptual decolonization. The specific individual positionalities of the contributors, which are shaped by location and regional perspective as much as in disciplinary, biographical, linguistic, religious, and other terms, are hereby kept in view. Drawing on their significant experiences and insights gained in both the global north and global south, the contributors offer original and innovative models of engagement and theorizing frames that seek to restore and critically engage with intellectual practices from particular regions and transregional contexts in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.

The known fact of the resumption of the issue of full-weight coins (with Demeter) in 340—330 BC in Olbia was also accompanied by the issue of its fractions. It is the first series of minted copper (subgr. Iв (Ма), Iг (Мо), IIб (Ро)). The renewal of issue of full-weight copper and its fractions was a consequence of the failure of the decimal reform by the Aristocratids; the population did not accept the reduced "obol series" (gr. 2), apparently, due to insufficient silver coins. In 333 BC, the Aristocratids tried unsuccessfully to legitimize the new monetary system by means of Canob's decree; the copper and silver of the decree (… τὸν χαλκὸν καὶ τὸ ἀργύριο[ν]…) are "obol series" (ΑΡΙΣ, ΘΕΥ, ΦΙΛΙ, ΜΟΣΧ, ΠΑ, etc.) and silver (ΑΡΙΣ, ΜΟΣΧ). Thus, the traditional hypothesis about the mention of the full-weight copper in Canob's decree is refuted. Subsequent episodic emission of the "obol series" (gr. 1) in 330—317 BC probably had no effect on monetary circulation; the coins were used to mint the "borysthenes" of gr. 1 until 309 BC.

The article considers such an important aspect of the Moscow Zoo's activities in 1953–1954 as mass cultural work with visitors, as well as with attendees during the visits of the Zoo staff to sponsored institutions and organizations. The author considers in detail not only statistics, but also the issues of the implementation of mass cultural work in the Moscow Zoo. Besides, the article describes the difficulties the staff and management of the Zoo faced in organizing excursions, lectures, children's parties, young zoo biologists camp and exhibitions. The mass cultural work of the Moscow Zoo was focused on Muscovites and guests of the capital. It was carried out according to the tasks of the Moscow City Executive Committee, which, on the one hand, required the fulfillment of all planned indicators. On the other hand, it allowed the management of the Moscow Zoo to make extensive use of contacts and cooperation with other institutions of Moscow, i.e., parks, cinemas, theaters, tour bureaus etc. to implement mass cultural work with visitors and attendees as well as to conduct an advertising campaign about the work of the Zoo.

Numerous interrelated prosopographic information about the historical persons of the decree in honour of Protogenes, as well as their ancestors, descendants and contemporaries, was obtained from objects of ceramic, magic epigraphy and numismatics. They confirm the previously proposed chronology of the events of the decree by the second-third quarter of the 3 rd century BC. The Protogenes decree was adopted at the same time as the wall-building inscription of Cleombrot Pantaclus, of eponym 222 BC. Decree is absolute palaeographic counterpart this inscription (according to V. V. Latyshev). The threat of an invasion by the Sciro-Galatians mentioned in the decree was realized around 215 BC (but, not in the middle of the 3 rd century BC!). The invasion was accompanied by the destruction, among others, of the Right Bank Chora and burying of the "Borysthenes" treasures.