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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Fantasy-driven versus contact-driven users of child sexual exploitation material: offender classification and implications for their risk assessment

open access: yes, 2018
Since the advent of the internet, convictions for the possession, display, trading and distribution of child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) have risen steadily, but little is known about the appropriate assessment and treatment of this offender ...
Douglas P. Boer (8834765)   +6 more
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Mobile Fantasy: Miyazaki’s Transnational Magic

open access: yes, 2013
Since the 1960s, anime on both film and television has become a part of global screen culture. It is Miyazaki Hayao who may take the credit for being the most highly regarded anime filmmaker known across the world.
Chan, Hiu M., Chan, Hiu Man
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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
wiley   +1 more source

Motivation and hygiene factors for curriculum (re)development and the embedding of technology in accounting programmes

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Using Herzberg's two‐factor theory, this paper examines the hygiene and motivation factors that drive (re)development in accounting higher education programmes. Interviews with accounting educators and discipline leaders demonstrate a range of factors at play in the (re)development of accounting programmes in pursuit of embedding relevant ...
Esin Ozdil   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

EFL Students’ Perceptions on the Use of Online Fantasy Sports [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article presents survey data from an English for Specific Purposes course using an online fantasy sports league as the main component. The goals of the study were to determine students’ perceptions of (a) how well fantasy sports facilitated ...
Steven SILSBEE
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Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Food. Fantasy and Fact 12-27-77

open access: yes, 1977
Transcript of a broadcast on Channel 2 when Dr. Berry was The House Physician, titled Food.

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A study of the uses and gratifications of online fantasy sports

open access: yes, 2007
This study has examined the uses and gratifications, which fantasy sports users seek for their online participation. Several uses and gratifications were tested to demonstrate whether or not they were motivations for different groups of online fantasy ...
Dougherty, Dennis L.
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