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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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Listening to the Ancestral Wisdom of Diatomite Cliffs

Kvinder, Køn & Forskning
This article focuses on green politics in Denmark, highlighting how mainstream political rhetorics with cruel optimism promote the country as a green world leader, while turning a blind eye to the eco-cides that have formed its landscapes.
Nina Lykke
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What is history? Views from a primary school teacher education programme

South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
This article focuses on how history as a concept is understood by first-year BA Education students. Students were asked to respond to the following questions: ‘what is history?’, ‘what is history to you?’ and ‘who writes history?’ Verbal and written ...
Sarah Godsell
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A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin

Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
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The limits of AI for authoritarian control

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract An emerging literature suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) can greatly enhance autocrats' repressive capabilities. This paper argues that while AI presents a powerful new tool for authoritarian control, its effectiveness is constrained by the very repressive institutions it is designed to serve.
Eddie Yang
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Cruel optimisms and erotic economies: Feminist life-making beyond arrival in On Black Sisters’ Street

Literator
For too long, critics of African women’s transnational literature have restricted discussions of displacement to a narrow lexicon of loss, a tendency that reduces migration’s complexity to tragedy and vulnerability.
Esther Mavengano, Thabisani Ndlovu
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“You needed new feelings”: The Affective Work of the Neoliberal Short Story

Journal of the Short Story in English, 2023
The article delves into the relationship between neoliberalism, affectivity, and the short story genre, focusing on two contemporary works: Steven Millhauser’s “The Next Thing” and George Saunders’s “The Semplica Girl Diaries.” It explores how societal ...
Michael Basseler
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Academic Feminisms : Between Disidentification, Messy Everyday Utopianism, and Cruel Optimism

, 2017
This article reviews current debates on epistemic habits of critique and affirmation, specifically focusing on approaches which combine criticality with ways to encourage unfoldings of alternative futurities, figurations and worlding practices.
Lykke, Nina,, Lykke, Nina
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(Non)belonging and (un)freedom

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
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The Cruelty of the Curative

Atlantis
In this paper, we take up Lauren Berlant’s (2011) theoretical framing of cruel optimism to ground our critique of normalizing scripts around disability, recovery, and healing which shape conceptualizations of health.
Alanna Veitch, Jen Rinaldi
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