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Reimagining Rural Spaces: Cultural Practices and Aesthetic Design for Active Ageing in Northern Thai Community

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of rural aesthetics and cultural practises in promoting active ageing amongst older adults in Baan Pong Nuea Village, Northern Thailand. Addressing a critical gap in the literature, it examines how the residential environment influences elderly well‐being in a rural context.
Alisa Nutley
wiley   +1 more source

Legal Form, Commodities and Reproduction: Reading Pashukanis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This chapter offers a feminist reading of Pashukanis’s legal theory as a contribution to critical evaluation of the relationship between legality, commodification and gender. Contemporary feminist interests in the relationship between legal and non-legal
FLETCHER, R
core  

Courage Conquers Death – and Even Love

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations
In the 1990s, Laurie Shrage critiqued dominant semiotic and psychoanalytic approaches to film, advocating instead for a contextual analysis attentive to audience reception. Drawing on Christopher Strong (Arzner, 1933), Shrage highlighted its capacity to
Laura Teresa Di Summa
doaj   +1 more source

From Theory to Practice: A Framework for Collaborative Anti‐Racist Research With Young Black Children

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While researchers continue to make significant scholarly inroads toward the acknowledgment of Black children's agency and competencies, including their recognition of and resistance to systemic racism, practical guides to anti‐racist qualitative research with young Black children factor conspicuously less often into the contextual balance of ...
Kerry‐Ann Escayg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

In the clutches of melancholy. Interpretive analysis of Gilles Renard’s student film “Late Afternoon”

open access: yesImages, 2019
The aim of the analysis is to present the film (Late Afternoon) by Gilles Renard as a study of melancholy. Both the plot and the cinematographic means used to shape the form of this short film correspond with the theoretical texts by Julia Kristeva and ...
Franciszek Drąg
doaj   +1 more source

Magical Realist Hauntings in Children's Everyday Encounters With Death, or, How to Believe in Impossible Things

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophy of Disturbatory Feminist Art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper I will show how contemporary feminist artists whose works concern femicides address three senses of the term “to disappear”. These works can be particularly disturbing, along the lines of  Danto’s notion of  disturbatory art ...
Argüello Manresa, Gemma
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The Aesthetics of Healing in the Sacredness of the African American Female’s Bible: Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain

open access: yesRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2016
Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939) stands in the tradition of African American use of the biblical musings that aims to relativize and yet uphold a new version of the sacred story under the gaze of a black woman that manipulates and ...
Cucarella-Ramon, Vicent
doaj   +1 more source

Part of the people or apart from the people?

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations
Barbie (2023) is both a feminist and a metaphysical film. It is a story of ideas regarding girls and their fantasies and the relation of the two vis-à-vis each other.
clinton peter verdonschot
doaj   +1 more source

Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
wiley   +1 more source

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