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The Bechdel Test and the Social Form of Character Networks [PDF]
, 2015 This essay describes the popular Bechdel Test—a measure of women’s dialogue in films—in terms of social network analysis within fictional narrative. It argues that this form of vernacular criticism arrives at a productive convergence with contemporary ...
Scott Selisker
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Diasporic Connections Revisited: Modest Fashion and Digital Fashion Activism
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This invited commentary responds to the power and residues of Irene Hardill and Parvati Raghuram's 1998 Area article ‘Diasporic Connections’. It makes three interlinked points on connection/disconnection and visibility/invisibility of female labour in British South Asian and modest fashion.
Saskia Warren
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Unlearning the Colonial Gaze: Grada Kilomba and the Poetics of Disobedience
ArtsSince the mid-twentieth century, a profound reconfiguration of the epistemic ground of ‘art’ itself—aesthetic theory—has taken place. This review examines how modern logic and the inseparability of the modernity/coloniality pair have impacted aesthetic ...
Luciana da Costa Dias
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Genealogy, 2018 This paper is an examination of Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo (1990) as a unique example of how Blacks in the global diaspora trace their genealogical roots back to Africa.
Lekan Balogun
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Neoliberal Feminism: The Only Approach [PDF]
, 2020 Throughout its history, feminism has manifested in myriad ways; indeed, there are more than ten different categories of feminist thought, all of which seek to define the tenets and objectives of feminism as a movement.
Secrest, Alexa L.
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Prejudicial but not unduly so? Addressing the epistemic and non‐epistemic dangers of rap evidence
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 335-358, June 2026.Abstract Recent years have seen mounting concern about the use of rap music as evidence in criminal proceedings, alongside an ever‐increasing number of cases involving ‘rap evidence’. Yet, while rap music is widely recognized to be highly prejudicial as evidence in court, little is known about how ‘prejudicial effect’ is, or should be, conceptualized ...
ABENAA OWUSU‐BEMPAH
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The Aesthetics and Ethics of Sexiness [PDF]
, 2017 All too often women are considered sexy in accordance with an externally dictated and unduly narrow conception of sexiness – one that excludes large portions of the female population from being considered sexy.
Maes, Hans
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Islamophobia and Danish academia
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 2, Page 263-290, June 2026.Abstract This article investigates how Danish academics participate in, interpret, and reproduce debates on the legal and normative regulation of Muslims in Denmark since the early 2000s. Through a thematic analysis of journal articles and public dissemination outputs authored by Danish researchers, it explores the social production of legal knowledge ...
SOFIE AALTONEN
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Representing, Re‐presenting, or Producing the Past? Memory Work amongst Museum Employees
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1739-1770, June 2026.Abstract Though it is widely understood that the past can be an important resource for organizations, less is known about the micro‐level skills and choices that help to materialize different representations of the past. We understand these micro‐level skills and choices as a practice: ‘memory work’ – a banner term gathering various activities that ...
Jeremy Aroles +3 more
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT The ‘affirmative turn’ in Geography has generally been read positively for promoting care‐full urban governance, repairing inter‐group relations and enhancing socio‐spatial justice, while largely neglecting the biopolitics, marginalisation and resistance embedded therein.
Qiong He, Shenjing He
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