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Rethinking the Good Life: A Crip Critique of Hon Lai-chu’s Surrealist Short Stories
On_CultureThis _Article examines the intersection of disruption, disability, and ‘post-’ concepts in the aftermath of Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 protests. Sparked by opposition to the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance amendment, these protests escalated into a broader ...
Carissa Ma
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Australian Journal of Environmental EducationPlacing Lauren Berlant’s concept of “cruel optimism,” in conversation with Tuck and Yang’s work, “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” this paper examines affective attachments to mass tree-planting efforts, which encourage unquestioned faith in these ...
Moss M.R. Berke
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Optimism and Economic Choice [PDF]
This paper presents some of the first large-scale survey evidence linking optimism to major economic choices. We create a novel measure of optimism using the Survey of Consumer Finance by comparing a person's self-reported life expectancy to that implied
David Robinson, Manju Puri
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
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Medicine Anthropology TheoryIn this article we examine how patients of elective orthopaedic surgery might transform the understanding of their body’s fixability over time. The article builds on an ethnographic fieldwork at an elective orthopaedic unit in Denmark and follow-up ...
Simone Grytter, Adam Bencard
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Lifelong learning as cruel optimism: Considering the discourses of lifelong learning and techno-solutionism in South African education. [PDF]
Int Rev Educ, 2022 Black S.
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POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
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Neoliberalism and the Mutations of Social Realism in Contemporary European Cinema
Cinéma & CieOver the last couple of decades film scholars have begun building a critical vocabulary to theorize the new kinds of social relations depicted in the new European cinema of precarity, from “flexible solidarity” and “precarious intimacies” to “the gift ...
Temenuga Trifonova
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Hope, hustle, and hype: The rise and fall of Art Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Journal of Digital Social ResearchThis article examines the technological emergence trajectory of Art Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), exploring their initial promise and then failure as transformative commodities disrupting art economies.
Alexia Maddox, Naomi Smith
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