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Island Studies Journal, 2022 Thanks to the rising interest in island literary studies, there is a considerable body of research on the relationship between islands and utopia/dystopia, but the motif of food, namely, what characters eat on an island, has seldom been explored.
Mingwen Xiao, Huafei Chen
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Pandemic Fictions: Covid-19 and the Cultures of Dystopia
Sillages Critiques, 2022 Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, dystopian imaginaries have been used to describe both the threat posed by the virus and the public health restrictions implemented to contain its spread.
Sean Mark
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how actors perceive and anticipate future states of the world is gaining traction in climate change governance scholarship and related calls for sustainability transformations. However, smallholder farmers, indigenous groups, and local communities, who are expected to bear disproportionate burdens of loss and damage from climate ...
Joel Persson +4 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The proposed Enhanced Games have become a convenient stage for bioethical sermonising about risk, authenticity, and the “spirit of sport”. This is epitomized by a recent article arguing that institutionalizing pharmacological enhancement under the “pretence of medical supervision and personal autonomy” would redefine human excellence in ...
Ognjen Arandjelović
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Elements of Dystopian Fiction in the Modern Lithuanian Prose
Respectus Philologicus, 2015 The theoretical problems and practical analysis of utopia and its subgenre dystopia are widely known in the global cultural discourse. Nevertheless, these analyses still remains almost terra incognita in the studies of Lithuanian prose.
Lina Buividavičiūtė
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Exploring the formation of public acceptability of biodiversity offsetting in Finland
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public acceptance of nature conservation instruments is critical for their effective and fair implementation. Understanding conservation governance as a rational activity aligns with the view that citizens base their judgments of conservation instruments on a critical evaluation of the anticipated ecological, economic, and social impacts ...
Tuija Seppälä +6 more
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Utopias and dystopia, fears and hopes among university youth
Revista de Psicología y Ciencias del Comportamiento de la Unidad Académica de Ciencias Jurídicas y SocialesBased on the social concepts and projects of utopia and dystopia, and the social emotions that arouse, the vision and reflection of the idea and thinking of the future, and the feelings that accompany it, in a group of students are inquir.
Ana María Fernández Poncela
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Curating the Unexpected: Stéphane Thidet's “Weeping Stones” Transformed During COVID‐19
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A monumental work by French artist Stéphane Thidet became the nexus for an unexpected interaction between an art installation and wildlife. “Weeping Stones,” which presents a desert‐like world, devoid of greenery, was featured in an exhibition we co‐curated at the Genia Schreiber University Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, in January 2020.
Tamar Mayer +3 more
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Four tales of sci-fi and information law
Internet Policy Review, 2020 Feel like living in a dystopia? Take a deep breath, get a strong coffee, and let us challenge your ideas of where reality ends, and sci-fi begins…
Natali Helberger +2 more
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