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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
wiley   +1 more source

The power of narrative storytelling: using comics to bring microbiology concepts to life. [PDF]

J Microbiol Biol Educ
Bhalla K, McIntyre KR, Chaiboripan BP, Kornak C, Sun E, Smith K.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Searching for the comic book scholar : an autoethnographic study of educators' experiences with comic books

, 2017
Access to thesis permanently restricted to Ball State community only.This study presents an in-depth look at academics who identify as comic book scholars.
Blanch, Christina L.
core  

THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

The properties of panels in global comics: frequency and size of 76 K panels in 1,030 comics from 144 countries. [PDF]

Lang Resour Eval
Cohn N, Hendrickson AT, Cardoso B, Klomberg B, Hacımusaoğlu I, Krajinović A, van der Gouw S, Atilla F, Simons A, Hankart T, van Noord N, Titarsolej S, Martínez FC, Altamirano TG, Pagkratidou M, Szawerna M, Verstappen N, Fenkl HI, Kruszielski L, Marini AM, Singh G, Stamenković D, Tasić M, Yum YN.   +23 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Review of Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library

Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library is a pioneering scholarly work by Brian Flota and Katie Morris that documents the integration of comic books into archival special collections and academic libraries.
Wantsala, Nicholas
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

Everybody's business: insights into palliative and end-of-life care for clinicians who treat mortals (yes, that means you). [PDF]

Future Healthc J
Mannix K.
europepmc   +1 more source

The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Visible After invasion? Ukraine's representational absence and distortion in global comics before 2014. [PDF]

Open Res Eur
Pidoprygora S.
europepmc   +1 more source