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CARE AND CONTROL IN URBAN BRAZIL: The Subaltern Archive of Portarias

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Security infrastructures permeate everyday life in Brazilian cities. Although security guards and doormen play an important and omnipresent role as social and technological mediators, their practices and perceptions have received little attention.
Tilmann Heil, Susana Durão
wiley   +1 more source

COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beckett's and Heidegger's Corresponding View on the Issue of Death Based on the EndGame Play [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations
The matter of death has been and is always one of the greatest and major questions of the man. “What is death and how we can escape from or even having philosopher's stone” have been always one of the important subjects in the literature.
Mahmoud Soufiani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the Concept of Absurdity in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen: A Critical Study

open access: yes, 2021
This study aimed at investigating the concept of absurdity in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House is the primary source in the present study.
Pour, Fatemeh Karim, Abshavi, Modgan
core   +1 more source

VISIBILITY IN AUTHORITARIAN URBAN SPACE: The (De)politicizing City and Grassroots Mobilizations in Russia

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reconsiders the relationship between visibility and politicization. Drawing on empirical evidence from urban mobilization campaigns across Russia, we counter the existing literature on theories of the post‐political and liminality by identifying four dimensions of visibility—publicity in urban space, objects of urban contestation,
Valeria Rumiantseva, Liubov Chernysheva
wiley   +1 more source

EXISTENTIAL AND SOCIAL ALIENATION: A COMPARISON BETWEEN ALBERT CAMUS’ THE STRANGER AND FATOS KONGOLI’S THE LOST ONE

open access: yesPrizren Social Science Journal
Alienation is a central theme in modern literature and a key concept in existential philosophy and absurdism. It refers to the distancing of an individual from others, society, and oneself, resulting in emotional, social, and psychological isolation ...
Elita OMAJ, Meral SHEHABI-VESELI
doaj   +1 more source

ABSURDIST RESONANCES in NO EXIT and ENDGAME WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK of EXISTENTIALISM and ABSURDISM

open access: yes, 2014
Absurdism and Existentialism are two landmark literary and philosophical movements influential in the second half of the 20th century, which are represented successively by Samuel Beckett and Jean Paul Sartre.
Zafer ŞAFAK
core  

One Must Imagine Sam Happy: Death Stranding through Camus’s Absurdism [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper aims to analyze Death Stranding’s plot and gameplay mechanics to demonstrate how the video game and its protagonist, Sam, exhibit elements of absurdism as defined by Albert Camus.
KHORSHIDPOUR, Anahita
core   +1 more source

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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