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Rewriting the image: Sports and subalternity in Yusuf Al- Seba’i’s My Heart is back
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2018 The study proposes to rediscover the dialectics of the revolutionary element in the Egyptian identity from the perspective of sports and to crystalise its vital role in constructing the national identity.
Naeema Abdelgawad
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Study Overseas: Ethnography about Ambivalence among Iranian Students in Germany [PDF]
Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2016 In this study, immigrant students’ lives in Germany have been investigated and the aim was to understand the subjective meanings of agents with respect to the questions of the study.
Ahmad Naderi, Reza Bayat
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Derelict architecture: Aesthetics of an unaesthetic space [PDF]
, 2015 The main focus of this article is the question of the aesthetics of an unaesthetic ruined space.The author also pays particular attention to the ambivalence that exists in contemporary derelict architecture, referred to as ‘modern ruins’, and tries to ...
Nieszczerzewska, Małgorzata
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract International student mobility (ISM) has historically followed a pattern of movement from developing regions to developed countries. However, in recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Chinese students pursuing doctoral studies in Southeast Asian developing countries, an area that has received relatively little ...
Yueyang Zheng +2 more
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The establishment (and disestablishment) of social work in Britain
Journal of Comparative Social Work, 2020 This paper presents a brief history of the development of social work in Britain, exploring some of the tensions that derive from gaining public acceptance and social establishment.
Jonathan Parker
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Over the years, surveys and data on learning outcomes have consistently shown inadequate levels of learning in schools in India, witnessing a further decline in recent years. Studies within the sociology of education have consistently highlighted the overarching role of class and caste on learning outcomes in schools. Neoliberal policy reforms
Akshita Rawat
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Ambivalent rituals of belonging: (Re)theorising hybrid, violent media events
Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 2022 The updating of media event theory for the digital age has been underway for some time, and several researchers have pointed out that the complexity of the hybrid media environment poses a challenge when it comes to understanding how media events in the ...
Valaskivi Katja +2 more
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Between empowerment and abuse: citizen participation beyond the post-democratic turn [PDF]
, 2020 In this special issue on “Democratization beyond the Post-Democratic Turn. Political Participation between Empowerment and Abuse”, we have explored changing understandings of participation in contemporary Western representative democracies through the ...
Butzlaff, Felix
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
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A Portrait of the Mehmandar: Accompanying Hajji Baba, of Ispahan, to England
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2019 There are few professions and professionals to be constantly perceived as ambivalent. But for interpreting and interpreters, this seems to be the norm, rather than the exception.
Pelea Alina
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