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Transformative Works and Cultures, 2022 Review of Elyse Graham, The republic of games: Textual culture between old books and new media. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2018, paperback, $24.95 (176p), ISBN 9780773553392.
Suzanne R. Black
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“Talk of contracts”: Gift-giving vs. Reciprocity in James Joyce’s “A Mother”
American, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2014 This essay measures the extent to which gift-giving fails in an economy of reciprocity. Reading James Joyce’s story “A Mother” in terms of Derrida’s notion of the gift as “absolute loss,” I consider the implications of an economy of loss for Joyce’s ...
Raghinaru Camelia
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The gift as philosophical critique of the social grant system in South Africa
Acta Academica, 2020 The purpose of this article is to undertake a philosophical reflection on the South African social grant system from the perspective of the gift as presented by Marcel Mauss, Alasdair John Milbank, Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida.
Erik Heppell, Mark Rathbone
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Community orchards and Hyde’s theory of the gift
Canadian Food Studies, 2019 Food scholars and advocates just have long asserted that commodification is one of the fundamental injustices of our dominant, industrial food system, as it stands in direct opposition to the notion of food as a human right.
Jennie K Barron
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The Performative Gift: A Feminist Materialist Conceptual Model
communication +1, 2013 Gifting (or gift-giving) is a particularly interesting form of communication that envelops both material and social dimensions. Objects are transformed into gifts through particular socio-material practices.
Jörgen Skågeby
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An Inka Offering at Yayno (North Highlands, Peru): Objects, Subjects and Gifts in the Ancient Andes [PDF]
, 2018 While Marcel Mauss's landmark essay on The Gift has been vital in social anthropology, inspiring a vast and influential secondary literature, the gift has been much less prominent in archaeological interpretation.
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Book Interview: The Economy On Your Doorstep
The Thinker, 2021 Gift Sonkqayi and Bhaso Ndzendze talk to Ayabonga Cawe about his book The Economy On Your Doorstep: The political economy that explains why the South African economy ‘misfires’ and what we can do about it (2021, Tracey McDonald Publishers)
Ayabonga Cawe
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Dynamic efficiency in the gifts economy [PDF]
Journal of Monetary Economics, 1993 Abstract In the standard analysis of overlapping generations economies with gifts from children to parents, each generation takes the actions of other generations as given. The resulting equilibrium is dynamically inefficient. In reality, however, parents realize that children will respond to higher parental saving by reducing gifts.
O'Connell, Stephen A., Zeldes, S. P.
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Liinc em Revista, 2009 Resumo Neste artigo discutem-se as relações entre trabalho imaterial, produção cultural colaborativa e economia da dádiva na sociedade atual. O intelecto geral é relacionado com a inteligência coletiva das redes digitais.
Clóvis Ricardo Montenegro de Lima +3 more
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The Regeneration Games: Commodities, Gifts and the Economics of London 2012 [PDF]
, 2008 This paper considers contradictions between two concurrent and tacit conceptions of the Olympic ‘legacy’, setting out one conception that understands the games and their legacies as gifts alongside and as counterpoint to the prevailing discourse, which ...
Amin A. +40 more
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