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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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This piece focuses on the phenomenon of glitter beers, which are typically brewed in small batches for beer festivals. Drawing on an interview with a Southern California home-brewer and the author's own festival experiences, the piece argues for glitter
Nicole Seymour
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Traditional Festivals From European Ethnology to Festive Studies
This essay considers both the history of the growing academic field of festive studies and the history of my own involvement in this field. I first rely on some of the major works of accepted scholarship to show that social scientists and ethnologists had been concerned with festivals and public celebrations for a very long time before this field ...
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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry
Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
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AI Public Value Creation: Data Encoding, Aggregation, and Algorithmic Computation
ABSTRACT AI systems in public administration challenge the premise that value creation arises from managers' strategic mediation among the vertices of Moore's strategic triangle: Public value, legitimacy, and operational capacity. AI imposes new logics that reshape vertices and their interaction dynamics.
Antonio Cordella, Francesco Gualdi
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Indoctrination and Democratic Legitimacy
ABSTRACT I argue that indoctrination undermines voter competence, and that widespread indoctrination thereby compromises the legitimacy of otherwise free and fair elections. Drawing on recent work in virtue epistemology, I provide an epistemic account of indoctrination according to which one is indoctrinated only if they hold an epistemically impactful
James H. McIntyre
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Festive Pollution: A Global Concern—A Comparative Study of Diwali in India and New Year’s Eve in Poland [PDF]
Anamika Roy +6 more
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ABSTRACT Many philosophical disputes have become so intractable that philosophers question whether there is a fact of the matter as to which side is right or whether these disputes are entirely verbal. Yet these “metadisputes” have also become intractable. This raises the question: Could they, too, be verbal? What would that even mean? Using tools from
Alexander W. Kocurek
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A Scenographic study in Draupadi's festival
Abstract: The widespread presence of scenography is showing various changes in modern Western theatre societies. Like other Indian ritual theatres, Drauadi's ritual theatre has indigenous visual elements. This paper examines the scope of scenography analysis in open-area theatrical performances in Draupadi's festival of Chittore District in Andra ...
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