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Care and COVID 19: Lessons for liberals and neoliberals
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Within the liberal political traditions, care is regarded as a private matter, a problem of ethics rather than justice. Social justice is framed as an issue of economics (re/distribution), culture (recognition) and/or politics (representation).
Kathleen Lynch
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Material Entanglement and Technology Fetishism in Academic Libraries
Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2020 This article explores technology fetishism in academic libraries as an irrational form of worship. Academic libraries participate in networks of prestige through their investments in technology and its fetishistic rhetoric.
Lisa Levesque
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2021 This article examines an epistemological dilemma at the center of social and environmental impact assessment: where and when the "system boundaries" that define the extent of an energy technology with socio-environmental impact should be drawn.
Alf Hornborg, Gustav Cederlof
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Conscious Suspension of ‘Stranger Danger’: Fetishism in Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
NUML Journal of Critical Inquiry, 2022 This paper explores the politics of fetishism in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. It contends that the characters in Coetzee’s novel appear to consciously suspend the danger that is often associated with strangers.
Saud Hanif, Fatima Syeda
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Rito extinto: recolonización neovanguardista de Tierra del Fuego
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2019 This essay critically reflects on practices of cultural extraction and reappropriation in the context of late capitalism. Based on the case observed in the Rito extinto project by the artist collective formed by Josefina Dagorret and Sebastián Escalona ...
Julián Farías Hurtado +1 more
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Moral Worth, Credit, and Non-Accidentality [PDF]
, 2020 This paper defends an account of moral worth. Moral worth is a status that some, but not all, morally right actions have. Unlike with merely right actions, when an agent performs a morally worthy action, she is necessarily creditworthy for doing the ...
Singh, Keshav
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Societies, 2012 In this article, I inquire into the reasons for the all-too-frequent association of plants and secrets. Among various hypotheses explaining this connection from the standpoint of plant morphology and physiology, the one that stands out is the idea that ...
Michael Marder
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Polyembolokoilamania with obsessive compulsive and related disorders: A case series
Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 Polyembolokoilamania is a condition seen in a medical or surgical emergencies where the person, sometimes repetitively, inserts various foreign bodies through body orifices or skin to obtain gratification often associated with background psychiatric ...
Avik Kumar Layek +2 more
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Fetishism and the social value of objects. [PDF]
, 2009 The idea of the fetish has a particular presence in the writings of both Marx and Freud. It implies for these two theorists of the social, a particular form of relation between human beings and objects. In the work of both the idea of the fetish involves
Baudrillard Jean +27 more
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Just doing it: enjoying commodity fetishism with Lacan [PDF]
, 2010 Despite prolonged resistance campaigns against what are regarded as unethical production practices of companies such as Nike, people around the world still seem to be happy to spend a lot of money buying expensive consumer products. Why is this so?
Batta, Aanka, Böhm, Steffen
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