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Animist materialism in Femi Osofisan’s <i>No More the Wasted Breed (1983) </i>and <i>Once </i><i>Upon Four Robbers (1991)</i> [PDF]

open access: yesResearch Journal in Advanced Humanities
In his oeuvre, Femi Osofisan challenges class inequalities by upbraiding the materialistic predilections of the upper class. Therefore, critics view his plays as revolutionary manuscripts designed for social awakening and interpret them from a Marxist perspective.
Adiele, Promise
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Materialism Behavior On Private Label Buying Decision Among Indonesian Teenagers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Nowadays, consumer behavior has become more complex and unpredictable. In consumer behavior, the relationship between product consumption and product ownership is closely related, one of the most interesting to study the behavior of consumer materialism.
Oliandes , Sondakh, Amelia, -
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A Re-enchantment of Science Fiction? Reading Okorafor's Work in an Animist Tradition

open access: yes, 2022
Okorafor’s term Africanfuturism has been picked up by many in the speculative fiction communities and discussions about the term have often focused on what it has to say about the limits and possibilities of Afrofuturism as a category or social movement.
Bonnevier, Jenny,
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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Animistic Moment. Clarice Lispector, Louis Kahn and a reassembling of materialities [PDF]

open access: yeslo Squaderno, 2016
How can agency be delegated to things as a productive strategy in the context of making? Let us consider two insightful examples: the first one provided by Clarice Lispector, in particular her novels The Passion According to G.H. (1964) A Breath of Life (posthumous and incomplete); the second comes from Louis Kahn and his work on the Indian Institute ...
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‘Mature’ and ‘Immature’ Death Concepts: Epistemic Injustice and Young Children's Sense‐Making of Death and Dying

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most research in Death Studies focuses on adult perspectives. Even when children are the intended focus, this research often remains adult‐centred due to the dominance of developmental psychology. A key concept underpinning this approach is the ‘mature death concept’ (MDC), a normative framework that assumes children's understanding of death ...
Renske Visser, Karin Murris
wiley   +1 more source

Reconfiguring ‘the Other’ in Child Studies With the Camera: Encountering (the) Child as Phenomenon

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper reconfigures ‘the Other’ in child studies through Trịnh Thị Minh‐Hà's notion of the inappropriate/d other as performed in Karen Barad's Diffracting diffraction: Cutting together‐apart (2014). We explore how this notion radically disrupts classical ideas of identity, individualism, human exceptionalism, and Adult‐centrism—exemplified
Karin Murris, Soern Finn Menning
wiley   +1 more source

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