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Identity Entanglement: Rethinking Marginality through the Intersectional, Liminal, and Antithetical

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
While identity research has given sustained attention to marginality, intersectionality, and the effects of power on identity, the formal interactional dynamics through which identities are constituted remain limited. I present identity entanglement as a useful framework for better understanding and articulating the relational complexities of identity.
Jules Vivid
wiley   +1 more source

Trade‐offs between surviving and thriving: A careful balance of physiological limitations and reproductive effort under thermal stress

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Balancing survival and reproduction presents a fundamental evolutionary challenge, especially in extreme and unpredictable environments. Thermoregulatory behaviour, in particular, imposes a costly trade‐off, as time spent maintaining optimal body temperature precludes ...
David L. Hubert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de Amor: Political and Social Consequences of the Mismatch of Laureola and the King

open access: yesCastilla: Estudios de Literatura, 2014
This paper proposes a political and social analysis of Diego de San Pedro’s Cárcel de Amor. Our starting point will be the Laureola's rejection, which will contrast with the king's refusal to request of his vassals.
Joaquín Márquez
doaj   +4 more sources

Between the Normative and the Performative: Sex, Parody, and Other (In)tractable Issues in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale

open access: yesMessages, Sages and Ages, 2016
The article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales discusses human sexuality as a major thematic concern in both its normative and its performative dimension, and sex, an (in)tractable issue throughout the Middle Ages, as a core motif that ...
Popescu Dan Nicolae
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating complexity: A relational perspective on generative AI adoption in government

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This research note presents preliminary findings from exploratory research examining how Australian public servants understand and use generative AI (GenAI) in government work. Drawing on 37 interviews across 22 agencies, we highlight the importance of a relational view of GenAI adoption, that is, the co‐creation of meanings that emerges from ...
Shibaab Rahman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Value in the ‘valley of the shadow of death’—When the user is no longer the value arbiter

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The Public Service Logic (PSL) user‐centric perspective on value creation has been one of its main critiques. Scholars argue that for some real‐world applications, such as emergency services, where users cannot engage with service offerings, the PSL must consider the roles of other service actors beyond just facilitators.
Higor Leite, Stephen Osborne
wiley   +1 more source

Literature and its modality of love: a psychoanalytic approach

open access: yesSigno, 2015
Psychoanalysis has always needed art, in special literature, but also, visual and scenic art to reveal what theory cannot see, by representing structures and procedures of psychical and social functioning.
Ernesto Söhnle
doaj   +1 more source

From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings

open access: yesText Matters, 2013
The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings.
Władysław Witalisz
doaj   +1 more source

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