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‘A compound fenced off from the rest of the world’: Motherhood as the Stripping of One’s Self in Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother.

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
Society and the media would have us believe that giving birth to a child and the first months of motherhood are the happiest moments in a woman’s life.
Alice Braun
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Theorizing emotional geographies of later-life care: Agamben, Marx, and Massey in the home

Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023
This paper proposes two concepts, emotional alienation and spatialized emotion, to theorize the emotional geographies of later-life care. The concepts build on spatiality in Marx's alienation theory, Agamben's concept of bare life and Massey's politics ...
Nari Kim
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Between Bare Life and Everyday Life: Spatializing Europe’s Migrant Camps

Architecture_MPS, 2017
The migrant and refugee camps that proliferated in Europe over recent years reflect extreme, if not bipolar, architectural conditions. While fenced carceral camps with prefabricated units were created top-down by state and municipal authorities ...
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On South African Violence Through Giorgio Agamben’s Biopolitical Framework: A Comparative Study Of J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace And Z. Mda’s Ways Of Dying

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2014
In this article I argue that the developments of countries going through transition from authoritarian to democratic rule are always stamped by numerous references to formerly sanctioned and fully operational institutionalized violence.
Bartnik Ryszard
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Cutting off Mediation. Agamben as Master Thinker

Acta Poética, 2015
Agamben’s Homo Sacer turns centrally upon “bare life”. However, the following subjects are not thematized: natality, gender, sexuality, the relation of the sexes, the heterosexual character of the symbolic order and political culture, the interest of ...
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
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Stressful Events Reported by Childhood Cancer Survivors and Community Controls From the St. Jude Lifetime (SJLIFE) Cohort: A Mixed Method Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Characterizing stressful events reported by childhood cancer survivors experienced throughout the lifespan may help improve trauma‐informed care relevant to the survivor experience. Methods Participants included 2552 survivors (54% female; 34 years of age) and 469 community controls (62% female; 33 years of age) from the St.
Megan E. Ware, Colter K. Clayton, Fang Wang, Sedigheh Mirzaei, Kyla Shelton, Tara M. Brinkman, Victoria Willard, Katianne M. Howard Sharp, Kevin Krull, Lindsay F. Schwartz, Melissa M. Hudson, Gregory T. Armstrong, Kirsten K. Ness, Rachel T. Webster   +13 more
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Carnivalesque, creativity, and the becomings: a critical assessment of the politics of resistance in Batman: Arkham Asylum

Creativity Studies
There is a growing academic interest in respect for critical game studies from the domains such as cultural studies, literature, ludology, and gender studies.
Anupama Kodencheri, Gandhapodi K. Chithra   +1 more
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Dispossession and Dislocation in J. M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
Written during some of the darkest years of the apartheid regime, Age of Iron, Coetzee’s sixth novel, presents us with a radical experience of dispossession and destitution to which the main character and narrator subjects herself in response to the ...
Pascale Tollance
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“Prorubono, vytjagono”. The Philosophy of the Voice in Vladimir Sorokin’s The Factory Committee Meeting

Studi Slavistici, 2022
The article investigates the poetics of language in Vladimir Sorokin’s The Factory Committee Meeting from a new point of view. This tale, which dates to the author’s early short prose (1979-1984), has been unanimously regarded as one of the many ...
Manuel Ghilarducci
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Unheard and Under‐Supported: Health‐Related Quality of Life in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Sickle Cell Disease

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive hemoglobinopathy affecting millions of individuals worldwide. The clinical expression and psychosocial burden of SCD vary widely across geographical, cultural, and healthcare system contexts, underscoring the need for setting‐specific approaches to assessment.
Desiré Fantasia, Giulia Reggiani, Elizabeth J. Maran, Maria Elisa Delle Fave, Ilaria Baido, Anna Chiara Frigo, Maria Paola Boaro, Raffaella Colombatti   +7 more
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