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“The Excuses We Make”: Defining Eight Corruption Rationalization Categories

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rationalization of corruption allows individuals to detach from moral imperatives, enabling them to perceive unethical or unlawful actions as acceptable or justifiable. Closely linked to the concept of moral disengagement, rationalization involves cognitive distortions that frame inhumane or immoral behavior as neither wrong nor ...
Caio César Coelho Rodrigues
wiley   +1 more source

Ideal yet Actual: Actresses Posing as Antique Heroines in Late-Victorian “Classical” Portraits

open access: yesInterfaces
The late-Victorian neoclassical artists George Frederic Watts, Frederic Leighton and Edward Poynter posed three famous actresses, Ellen Terry, Dorothy Dene and Lillie Langtry, in paintings whose subjects were drawn from Antiquity.
Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
wiley   +1 more source

The Affective Afterlife of the “Smelly Immigrant” Trope: Contested Scents, “Race,” and Olfactory Contact Zones in Berlin

open access: yesCity &Society, Volume 38, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper proposes the notion of “olfactory contact zones” to investigate the role of odors and scents and the affects they give rise to in Berlin's urban publics. Drawing on the notion of the “afterlife” of racialised violence, it shows how tropes of the “smelly immigrant,” anchored in European antisemitism and colonial history, live on ...
Claudia Liebelt
wiley   +1 more source

Le prime attrici della compagnia Reale Sarda nel database AMAtI

open access: yesDrammaturgia, 2016
The section is dedicated to the profiles of three important actresses active in the first half of the 19th century: Carlotta Marchionni (1796-1861), Amalia Bettini (1809-1894), Antonietta Robotti (1817-1864).
Francesca Simoncini
doaj   +3 more sources

Two Thanhouser actresses, California

open access: yes, 1913
Thanhouser Company California production still shot by Carl Louis Gregory. Two actresses are in conversation.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/jonathan_silent_film/1620/thumbnail ...

core   +1 more source

Somerset Maugham's Failings

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Allan Hepburn
wiley   +1 more source

Not Necessarily Farm‐Wives: The Working Women of Rural Aotearoa/New Zealand

open access: yesNew Zealand Geographer, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 2026.
ABSTRACT There's a perception farm‐resident women are farmers or farmwives (e.g., cooks, record‐keepers, errand‐runners). Yet most farm‐resident women record a non‐farm occupation in their census returns. This article investigates this anomaly. It looks at the changing status of farm and other rural women, the diversity of non‐farming careers they ...
Ann Pomeroy
wiley   +1 more source

Early Emergence of Cultural Differences in Audiovisual Speech Perception

open access: yesDevelopmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Integrating auditory and visual cues is a hallmark of human speech perception, yet adults from East Asian backgrounds show less reliance on visual speech than their Western counterparts. The origins of this cultural difference, however, remain unknown.
Linlin Yan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vivre du théâtre d’entreprise

open access: yesRecherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, 2019
The first experiments in business theatre aimed at solving internal “dysfunctions” in companies were launched in France in the late 1980s. However, these plays were performed by professional actors and actresses who played fictitious characters related ...
Cécile Ferro, Marie Buscatto
doaj   +1 more source

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