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Fear appeal construction in the Daily Mail Online:a critical discourse analysis of ‘Prime Minister Corbyn and the 1000 days that destroyed Britain’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The rhetorical fear appeal is a technique of political communication that seeks to elicit an emotional response in receivers with the intention of provoking them to political action desired by the rhetor.
Panay, Andrew
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From Loss to Transformation? Towards Pluralistic and Politicised Agrarian‐Climate Futures

open access: yesAsia 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
wiley   +1 more source

Envisioning a ‘Good’ Utopia on a Dystopian Island: Culinary and Cultural Conflicts in Lord of the Flies

open access: yesIsland 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
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring the formation of public acceptability of biodiversity offsetting in Finland

open access: yesConservation 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
wiley   +1 more source

Elements of Dystopian Fiction in the Modern Lithuanian Prose

open access: yesRespectus 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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Measurement of intangibles in current society: challenges, perspectives and choice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Intangible cultural value has temporal, directional, geospatial, transactional, transference & multiplier effects.
Hrabetova, Ja., Ta’eed, O.
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Fighting a War You\u27ve Already Lost: Zombies and Zombis in \u3cem\u3eFirefly/Serenity\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eDollhouse\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article explores the use of zombie imagery in two sf narratives created by Joss Whedon: Firefly (US 2002–3), Serenity (US 2005) and Dollhouse (US 2009–10).
Canavan, Gerry
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Introduction: From Nauchnaia Fantastika To Post-Soviet Dystopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Science fiction is the genre that links our lives to the future: the faster the pace of scientific and technological advancement, the greater our awareness of what István Csicsery-Ronay called “the science-fictionality” of everyday life. The more we feel
Forrester, Sibelan E.S., Howell, Y.
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Dystopia as a cinematography direction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Dystopia is a direction of the artistic literature and the cinematography direction, in narrow sense, it is a description of the totalitarian state, in wide sense, it is a description of any society, in which there are prevailed negative progress trends.
Koval, Ju.
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