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The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
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Can the subaltern speak through WhatsApp? Unearthing the labour/knowledge of digital methodologies
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract Prompted by the challenges that Syrian refugees posed to a qualitative WhatsApp survey, this article dissects what researchers and research participants actually do when they ‘produce’ knowledge through digital methods such as WhatsApp. While many refugee participants saw the survey as an opportunity to express their views on social tensions ...
LEILA ULLRICH
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Escaping the Absurd. The Corporation and Form in American Psycho
American, British and Canadian Studies JournalThe aim of this essay is to explore the representation of the Corporation in American Psycho and to affirm its very existence as a type of formal system of signs, language, and discourse that sets the boundaries of the characters’ world.
Neagu Vlad-Eugen
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Modern Drama: The Theatre of the Absurd
, 1969 Theatre of the Absurd is a post-war phenomenon in which the dramatists, in anxiety and despair, show their sense of the senselessness of the human condition in a world in which man is deprived of certainties.
Ratcliff, LeElla Theresa
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Pengakhiran Cerita: Suatu Teknik dalam Karya Teater Absurd Melayu
, 2015 The period of experimental theatre in the 1970s had brought a significant change in the history of modern Malay theatre. The plays that were produced and staged during this era had been categorized as absurd plays as they contained strong tendencies ...
Ahmad, Mas Rynna Wati
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Performing Micro‐Role Transitions in Open Strategy
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Open strategy (OS) requires contributors with a variety of functional backgrounds to episodically perform a strategy role in addition to their functional responsibilities. These actors engage in micro‐role transitions as they temporarily shift from one role to another.
Anna Plotnikova +2 more
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Not a scintilla of light: Darkness and despondency in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2018 The paper makes an attempt at exploring the concept of the absurd as it applies to Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning. The inordinate quest for survival and human dignity is graphically etched on the sordid canvas of angst, grime and abject poverty.
Chioma Opora
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Rethinking Interpersonal Humour in Organizations: Clarifying Constructs and Charting A Path Forward
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Organizational humour research is accelerating; however, scholars seem to disagree on how to conceptualize and operationalize interpersonal humour. A widely used approach draws from personality psychology and conceptualizes humour as a typology of four styles.
Cecily D. Cooper +2 more
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