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Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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SARS-COV-2 and the (Dark) Future of Society: A Machiavellian Approach to the End of Body Sovereignty and the Beginning of Bio-Feudalism

Sociologica, 2021
As much as the event following 9/11 triggered massive changes in our understanding of privacy rights and increased our level of acceptance of government infringement on individuals’ freedom, the pandemic of the SARS-COV-2 is threatening to change our ...
Andrea Molle
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“Why Can't They Just Stay?” A Critical Conversation and Membership Categorization Analysis of Racial Neoliberalism in English Language Education

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I analyze the co‐constitution of race and neoliberalism within the discourse of an English language classroom. Appealing to modernist/colonial histories of race and capital, I first examine how racial neoliberalism produces a normalized, unmarked subject‐position through the conflation of moral responsibility with human ...
Justin Lance Pannell
wiley   +1 more source

Inherited Advantage and the Myth of Meritocracy in Business Education in the UK

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Business schools are frequently presented as meritocratic institutions that reward talent, effort and entrepreneurial capability. This article examines how business education can simultaneously acknowledge inequality rhetorically while continuing to legitimize unequal outcomes pedagogically.
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Ilia Chavchavadze and the emergence of Georgian national discourse

Banber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
The purpose of this article is to explore the history of the emergence of the discourse of Georgian nationalism and the idea of the Georgian nation.
Beniamin Mailyan
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Free Learning To End Educational Feudalism [PDF]

, 2023
The dominance of culture of feudalism is still inherent inlearning practices in Indonesia. In the context of education, feudalismreflects authoritarian, hierarchical, and centralistic practices in whichteachers or educators are considered a single ...
Supit, Sugijanti, Mamuko, Regina, Emor, Yefta   +2 more
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Have I Got News for You

Media Theory
The discussion on Neo-feudalism, in scholarship and politics, the way Neo-feudalism is conceptualized and contested, reflects deeper problematic cultural and political dynamics.
Korinna Patelis
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Histoire et archéologie des châteaux médiévaux japonais

Archéopages, 2008
Up to the 1960s Japanese archaeology was almost exclusively concerned with prehistory and the protohistoric periods. But then the discovery of mokkan – wooden tablets containing written information on the way society operated – revealed to historians the
Pierre-François Souyri
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L’ecclesia, institution dominante du féodalisme : retour sur des malentendus

L'Atelier du CRH, 2023
Since the 1980s, a conceptual pair has increasingly structured medievalist discourse in France: dominium and ecclesia. In addition to their Latin form, these have in common the fact that they were both put into circulation by the same medievalist, Alain ...
Joseph Morsel
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