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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
wiley   +1 more source

Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism: The Case of Polish Far‐Right Activists in Britain

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this ...
Rafal Soborski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

El tema del diluvio en Ovidio y sus precedentes en las literaturas orientales. [PDF]

open access: yes
El autor de este artículo pretende aproximar las diversas versiones del conocido mito del «Diluvio», tomando como punto de partida el relato de Ovidio en Metamorfosis I, 253-312.
Jiménez Zamudio, Rafael
core   +1 more source

Human Rights and National Minorities in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Three human rights myths serve to limit the debate over human rights in the United States and bias our perspective in dealing with the human rights claims of citizens from other countries.
Henry, Charles P.
core   +1 more source

Introduction: Forensic Fail [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: About 60% of Pheochromocytoma (PCC) and Paraganglioma (PGL) patients have either germline or somatic mutations in one of the 12 proposed disease causing genes; SDHA, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, SDHAF2, VHL, EPAS1, RET, NF1, TMEM127, MAX and H-RAS ...
Björklund, Peyman   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
wiley   +1 more source

Using Cultural Theory to Specify the Policy Actors, Belief Systems, and Sources of Coalition, Conflict, Stability, and Change in Policy Advocacy Coalitions and Environmental Resource Policies

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We use grid‐group cultural theory (CT) to specify underspecified aspects of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Our theoretical synthesis of CT and the ACF provides, first, an exhaustive typology of policy actors and their cultural cognitive biases that entail, guide, and constrain policy core beliefs about problem definitions and ...
Metodi Sotirov, Brendon Swedlow
wiley   +1 more source

The Pedagogy of the Pentateuch: The Undergraduate Classroom at a Large State University

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to the three questions suggested for this symposium on the pedagogy of the Pentateuch, I focus here less on what we teach and instead emphasize the values within our discipline. Students need to learn how to read the Bible as part of the humanities: as the work of thinkers who were reflecting on their place in the world and ...
Bernard M. Levinson
wiley   +1 more source

The Legacy of Benjamin Franklin in the Biblical Studies Classroom in the United States

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across many secular American research universities, biblical studies is taught largely from an historical–critical perspective. This article traces this approach back to some very specific stipulations for the study of the Bible made by Benjamin Franklin when he founded the University of Pennsylvania in the 18th century.
Liane Feldman
wiley   +1 more source

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