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From life force to slimming aid : exploring views on the commodification of traditional medicinal knowledge. [PDF]
The commodification of traditional knowledge is a lively topic for academic debate, with opinions ranging from categorical rejection of this process, to views that it could be a liberating act.
Vermeylen, Saskia
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Komodifikasi Agama dalam Bisnis Social Crowdfunding di Indonesia
This study aims to criticize and reconstruct the concept of commodification of religion in order to further reveal whether social crowdfunding business activities which are currently booming in Indonesia have become part of the practice of ...
Amin Al Jawi +2 more
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Flexibility as commodification and contracts as local resistance
The paper looks at contracts and contract law as a place of both commodification and resistance to commodification. Commodification and contract are connected through the lens of flexibilisation, seen in particular as one party’s unilateral prerogative ...
Candida Leone
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Commodification of Human Tissue [PDF]
Commodification is a broad and crosscutting issue that spans debates in ethics (from prostitution to global market practices) and bioethics (from the sale of body parts to genetic enhancement).
Johnson, Sarah-Louise +2 more
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The walking debt – On the morals of ownership in debt and its alienability
The article provides a moral analysis of the commercial trade of financial claims against private debtors. Secondary debt markets process a type of object that differs from regular commodities.
Simon Derpmann
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Desiring the indigenous : affective commodification of the Sámi
This paper argues that the multimodal enactment of affect plays a key role in the commodification of indigenous cultures. Departing from an understanding of affect as integral to discourse, the paper investigates how indigenous cultures are construed as ...
Westberg, Gustav, +2 more
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This article explores how the largest sewing machine manufacturer in the world – the US Singer Manufacturing Company – entangled seamstresses in contractually regulated credit relationships in German-speaking Europe during the second half of the ...
Matthias Ruoss
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The Commodification of Religious Rituals: Representations of Political Actors in Indonesian Elections [PDF]
Elections in Indonesia are closely linked to religion, with politicians using religion as a medium to appeal to voters. In addition, the increasingly widespread commodification of religious rituals in Indonesian politics confirms that religious symbols ...
Faizal Hamzah Lubis +2 more
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Incorporating Cultural Heritage into the Local Tourism Development Strategy in Kwa Ndebele: A Systematic Review [PDF]
The study employed a purposive sampling technique to identify multiple sources to systematically search, critically appraise and synthesise the matter of incorporating cultural heritage into the local tourism development strategy in Kwa-Ndebele.
Ayanda Dladla +2 more
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The Value of Time: Its Commodification and a Reconceptualization [PDF]
The discourse about commodification of time indicates that under the current socio-economic regime important values get systematically ignored. This paper reviews literature about the value of time in classical political economy, neoclassical economics ...
Fellner, Wolfgang, Fellner, Wolfgang J.
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