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“The Conjuring”: Invisible Fear, Theology of Horror, and Traditional Values

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
This article reviews Kevin Wetmore Jr.’s book on the film “The Conjuring”, published in the “Devil’s Advocates” series. The author briefly outlines the academic historiography of the Conjuring universe and notes that Wetmore’s book is the most balanced ...
Alexander V. Pavlov
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The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
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“Man Resides in the Center”: A Daoist Fengshui Rectification Practice Recorded on a Second-Century Pottery Basin from Shanxi

Religions
In traditional China, when confronting real-world problems, people might invite masters to perform rites of residential fengshui rectification for a healthy and prosperous life.
Sheng Jiang
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Negotiating French Muslim Identities through Hip Hop [PDF]

, 2019
In The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity, Gérard Noiriel contends that in France, the modern idea of the nation emerged as a means to subvert the dominant influence of the nobility, whose rule was underwritten by the ...
Nyawalo, Mich Yonah
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Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
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Aspects of Meaning in Apotaxis and Syntaxis [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2014
The article examines the subject matter of apotaxis and syntaxis. The three pivotal aspects of meaning in apotaxis and syntaxis, as based on the analysis of works by ancient catechists, Teachers of the Church and XIX–XX century researchers, are: 1 ...
Valentina Saveskul
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“Bread Earning Saturated With Humiliation”: “اللقمة من هناك مغمسة بالذل” Linguistic Citizenship as Acts of Love and Sumud Among Palestinian English Teachers at Jewish Israeli Schools

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how Palestinian English teachers (PETs) working at Jewish–Israeli schools navigate trauma in an educational space that both requires and negates them. Driven by labor market demands rather than efforts at educational integration, PETs operate under constant affective and political tension, forced to comply with colonial ...
Muzna Awayed‐Bishara
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Land and Water Pedagogy in TESOL: Centering Indigenous Knowledges

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The intersection of English Language Teaching (ELT), TESOL, and Indigenous knowledges is an important yet often neglected area of inquiry. This paper explores the importance of including Indigenous knowledges – specifically land and water pedagogies – in ELT, TESOL, and broader language education practices. Through duoethnographic inquiry, we –
Paul J. Meighan, Madoka Hammine
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When Thriving for More Collapses the System: The Academic Reproduction of Uncaring Structures

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues that the widening gap between aspirational aims and visionary orientations and the prevailing practices in neoliberal academia stems from deeper, historically rooted, market‐based logics shaping our institutions, increasingly governed by economic values and academic subjectivities therein.
Lara Pecis, Florian Bauer
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Le Féminin et le diable: Possessions et exorcismes comme manifestation de la répression sexuelle feminine [PDF]

Monstrum, 2019
Addresses the motif of the possessed woman in the demonic possession subgenre as a manifestation of female sexuality repressed under the constraints imposed by the patriarchal order.
Alexandra Dagenais
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