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The hunger artist and academic migration: On political depression and relational poverty
Abstract This autoethnography presents fragments of an invisible life, an ordinary body navigating the terrain of ‘academic migration’ (2009–2025), from rejection as a PhD applicant to recognition as a high‐achieving graduate. Provoked by my recent pursuit of Fulbright Postdoctoral Award in the United States, I draw on Kafka's figure of the hunger ...
Dave Yan
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Analysing Island Change Through Infrastructures of Social Reproduction
Abstract This paper explores through a case study of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, how the expansion of an urban environment that seemingly should accommodate women's everyday lives continues to be shaped by gendered challenges. Based on 13 life history interviews with elderly female residents, the analysis shows that (i) urban change is constituted by ...
Sissal Dahl, Leonieke Bolderman
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Resilience and Sorites in the Normative Domain and Beyond
ABSTRACT The sorites paradox is central to theories on vagueness, which aim to explain apparent contradictions. Some theories, however, imply sharp cut‐offs where we would, intuitively, not expect them. This paper invokes the notion of normative resilience to address this issue.
Henrik Andersson, Jakob Werkmäster
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Protected Cropping in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Third Māori Agricultural Revolution?
Protected cropping technologies are increasingly identified as a component of a potential fourth global agricultural revolution, promising increased productivity, reduced environmental impacts and greater resilience to climate change and supply chain disruption.
Matthew Rout, Christina Roigard
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ABSTRACT Discourses of energy and energy transition have become increasingly prevalent in informal and formal learning spaces. Energy transitions differ across regions, contexts, and technologies. The contextual nature of energy is an opportunity for a sociotechnical approach to its study.
Desen S. Özkan +2 more
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Subaltern Strategies and Agency: How South Asian American Youth Rework the Model Minority Stereotype
ABSTRACT This study examines how South Asian American youth, as epistemically marginalized or “subaltern” actors, navigate racialized school experiences. It focuses on how South Asian American boys employ the model minority stereotype through finessing, a strategy of agency that counters exclusionary labels like perpetual foreigner and nerd while ...
Joan J. Hong
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Discerning the Distinctive Characteristics of Key Research Paradigms and their Constituents
Background: Research paradigms are the underlying philosophical and theoretical frameworks that guide research studies. This article identifies and discusses key research paradigms: positivism, postpositivism, pragmatism, constructivism, interpretivism ...
Bharat Kumar Shrestha +1 more
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Aggregation and the Structure of Value
ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
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„Nieja oczy otwieram”. Etyczne czytanie i Morfina Szczepana Twardocha
This paper explores the possibilities of an ethical reading of Szczepan Twardoch’s Morphine in the wider context current notions of the ethics of literature.
Michał Koza
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