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Raising aluminum foil fists: how to speak about anger in transplant medicine [PDF]
Frontiers in SociologyDominant narratives of solid-organ transplantation foreground vocabularies of gratitude. Solid-organ transplantation is often celebrated in biomedicine for its high-tech innovation and specialization.
Alexandra Vieux Frankel, Eva-Marie Stern
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The ‘cruel optimism’ of professional development [PDF]
PracticeThe starting point for this critical exploration of the inner logic of professional learning and development is an orientalist reading of The Great Wave, the iconic woodblock print by the Japanese artist Katushika Hokusai.
Anne Pirrie
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Developing a Women's Thought Collective methodology for health research: The roles and responsibilities of researchers in the reflexive co‐production of knowledge [PDF]
Health Expectations, 2023 Background Co‐produced research holds enormous value within the health sciences. Yet, there can be a heavy focus on what research participants think, do and know; while the researcher's responsibility to explore and re/work their own knowledge or praxis ...
Kristen Foley +3 more
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Cruel Optimism as an Ecology of Powers
Theory, Culture and SocietyHow do the flexibilized scenes of cruel optimism crystallize and resonate with the situational displays of crises as a governmental oversight? Centering around this question, the paper aims to offer a critical fulcrum for problematic attachments toward ...
KARATAŞ, İBRAHİM
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The allure of microbiome research: promises of holism and the potential for cruel optimism
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsEmerging biomedical fields are frequently communicated in promissory language—expressing hope, and sometimes even hype, about their potential to solve current unsolvable public health challenges and thus contribute to a better future. In this article, we
Tine Friis +2 more
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Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: 'You can promise the world'. [PDF]
Br J SociolEngland E.
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Noir Affect in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City [PDF]
Caietele Echinox, 2022 Taking its cue from Christopher Breu and Elizabeth A. Hatmaker’s rethinking of noir affect as a descriptor of detective fiction, this paper contributes to the discussion of South African writer Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City as a narrative that both harnesses ...
Carmen Borbély
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Cruel, Convenient, and Intimate Publics
Media Theory, 2023 Lauren Berlant’s contributions chart innovative conceptual frameworks to help us understand how affect and emotion, desires and hopes traverse the public and private realms.
Ali Azhar, Megan Boler
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School-to-work transitions support: ‘cruel optimism’ for young people in ‘the state of insecurity' [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, I argue that current arrangements for school-to-work transitions support in England, now school-based, are designed to contribute towards ensuring the consent of the population for what I refer to as the ‘state of insecurity’ (Lorey, 2015):
Chadderton, C, Chadderton, C.
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