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Indigenous Relational Thought and Climate Crisis Response: Rethinking Human‐Environment Relations Beyond Technocratic Governance

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is frequently framed as a technical problem of emissions, risk, finance, adaptation planning, and institutional coordination. This critical integrative review, supported by scoping‐informed searching and transparent eligibility and synthesis procedures, examines how selected Indigenous relational literatures can deepen climate ...
Jacob Kwakye, Basin Nawai Sumaila
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Fictional Worlds of Fantasy Literature

, 2015
This bachelor thesis focuses on issues of fictional worlds in fantasy literature. Basic terms important for creation of the fictional worlds and also creation of stories from fantasy genre will be explained in this thesis.
LIŠKA, Jan
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How Firms Construct Climate Identities in New Zealand: Resolving the Tensions Between Economic Imperatives and Climate Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on legitimacy theory, the aim of this study is to answer the research question: ‘How does corporate climate identity construction enable firms to make legitimacy claims while managing tensions between the economic imperatives and climate goals?’ The research design relies on a discourse analysis of 252 corporate reports published ...
Hang Pham
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Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
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The Interwar Period That Wasn’t: Alternative Histories of the Twentieth Century in the Prose of Jacek Dukaj

Postscriptum Polonistyczne
The article analyzes the creation of alternative histories using the examples of Xavras Wyżryn [Xavras Wyżryn] and Lód [Ice]. The focus of the interpretations will be on the question of why this particular period was subjected to counterfactual ...
Anna Łebkowska
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"Armored Women": Representations of Women in Fantasy Literature

, 2018
The work is focused on the representation of women in fantasy literature, marginally also in film and PC games. It studies forming of stereotypes and their use in a particular work or their updating and changes.
KLECÁN, Martin
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Framing novelty in crowdfunding: Which words win support, where, and at what stakes

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We examine how promotional language (“hype”) in reward‐based crowdfunding is associated with campaign success, and whether those associations vary across sector contexts and with campaign execution burden. Using dictionary‐based text measures from 635 U.S. Kickstarter campaigns across five sectors, we distinguish three novelty‐
Agnieszka Kwapisz
wiley   +1 more source

Dragons, witches, and sorcerers in the advocacy space of national mythology [Review: Breeva Т.N., Khabibullina L.F. 'Russian Myth' in Slavic Fantasy. Moscow, Flinta, 2016]

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2017
The review provides a critical analysis of the new book by T.N. Breeva and L.F. Habibullina. The authors pay attention to the phenomenon of “Russian myth” in the so-called Slavic fantasy, which is a crucial part of contemporary mass literature in Russia.
O.E. Osovskiy
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Temporal grammars of novelty: How carbon removal entrepreneurs frame new technologies

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper assesses the ways in which carbon dioxide removal ventures frame their work. Drawing on George Herbert Mead's philosophy of the present, it conceptualizes temporal grammars of novelty as a framing strategy that involves connecting two points in time, namely present and future, to elaborate novelty.
Ioana Sendroiu
wiley   +1 more source

Celtic mythology in Czech fantasy literature [PDF]

, 2018
(in English): This paper aims to find and analyse Celtic mythological motifs in chosen works of Czech fantasy literature and elucidate how these works use them, in which aspects are they utilised and to what purpose.
Micková, Tereza
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