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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Stripping Away Archaic Ideologies: Reversing the Disappearance of the Hawkins Technique [PDF]
, 2018 Presented at the 23rd Annual Richard J. and Martha D. Denman Undergraduate Research ForumA modern dance technique, the Hawkins technique, was created in 1950 by Erick Hawkins (1909-1994).
Ajamian, Marissa
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Merengue: Dominican Music and Identity
, 1997 Merengue—the quintessential Dominican dance music—has a long and complex history, both on the island and in the large immigrant community in New York City.
Austerlitz, Paul
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Esiintyjyyttä etsimässä : tanssijan esiintyjyyden kehitysmahdollisuuksia nykytanssin opetuksessa [PDF]
, 2013 Tämä tutkielma on kirjoitettu osana tanssinopettajan tutkinnon (AMK) opinnäytetyökokonaisuutta. Taiteellinen osa opinnäytetyöstä on koreografia Akilleen Kantapää viidelle tanssijalle.
Leinonen, Venla
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira +2 more
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