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Reversing the Gaze: An Autoethnographic Critique of Transracial–Transnational Adoption to Australia
Child &Family Social Work, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 511-520, February 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, we engage with rescue and saviour narratives surrounding transracial–transnational adoption (also known as intercountry adoption) as a provocation and as manufactured myths. These myths have erased the nuances and complexities of transracial–transnational adoption by commodifying adoptees as pitiful orphans in need of rescue ...
Samara Kim +2 more
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, 2020 This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.
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International Terrorism and the American Dream: A Dialectical Fairytale
Relaciones Internacionales, 2016 Today’s framing of terrorism in the international system is part of our contemporary dreamworlds of mass consumption set against images of the American Dream.
Carlton Dwayne FLOYD +1 more
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Psychological Mechanisms Behind the Influence of Immersive Technologies on Consumer Well‐Being
Psychology &Marketing, Volume 42, Issue 11, Page 2748-2766, November 2025.ABSTRACT Immersive technologies, such as augmented reality and virtual reality, enrich daily life with numerous benefits but also introduce risks such as impulsive spending and escapism. Despite their growing influence, the psychological mechanisms underlying these effects and the impact on consumer well‐being remain underexplored.
Sungeun Ange Kim, Sheau Fen Crystal Yap
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Shadowing Silence: A Spatial Rewriting of Myths and Fairytales
The February Journal, 2023 This paper, through theory and the authors’ own pedagogical and critical spatial practice, explores the ways in which myths and fairytales may suggest playful and collective storytelling to create a plurality of meanings and corporeal engagements that ...
Aslıhan Şenel, Ece Yetim
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Russian Language Studies, 2010 The article is devoted to actual methodological problems of organization of lexical material of filmed Russian fairytales while teaching foreign philologists Russian language.
V E Matveenko
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Lucky Coincidences: Experiencing Serendipity in Museums and Beyond
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 11, Page 855-870, November 2025.ABSTRACT Serendipity is the unintentional, accidental discovery of something new or surprising that feels positive and meaningful for the individual. Four studies (N1 = 1638; N2 = 279; N3 = 520; N4 = 452) examined such experiences in museums and beyond, contributing to three overarching goals: (a) achieving a better understanding of predictors and ...
Max Knabe +9 more
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BEYOND ‘BAD DENSITY’ AND TERRITORIAL STIGMA: An Infrastructure Access Lens on Suburban Exclusion
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 1063-1081, September 2025.Abstract Segregation and social exclusion in postwar suburban housing estates are typically addressed as problems of residential location. For decades, postwar suburbs in all corners of the world have been targeted as designated sites of punitive urban intervention, grounded in territorial stigma and normative notions of density.
André Klaassen, Greet De Block
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Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.Short Abstract This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine, we delve into a complex array of Geological imaginaries, and undertake our own speculative work.
Deborah P. Dixon +2 more
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Folklore Names: What They Speak about (With Reference to Bashkir Heroic Tales)
Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2016 This article discusses the general features of the Bashkir naming tradition and the naming of heroes in Bashkir heroic tales. The author studies Bashkir language materials and comes to the conclusion that in the Bashkir linguistic consciousness the name ...
Gulnaz Nurfayezovna Yagafarova
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