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The Transgressive Figure of the Dancing-Girl-in-Pain and Kanai Mieko’s Corporeal Text [PDF]
, 2019 In ‘The Transgressive Figure of the Dancing-Girl-in-Pain and Kanai Mieko’s Corporeal Text’, Hannah Osborne analyzes the figure of the dancing-girl-in-pain in Kanai Mieko’s 1968 essay, ‘Nikutairon e jostesu dai’ippo’ (‘Towards a Theory of Corporeality ...
Osborne, Hannah
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European Identity and the Euro in Kosovo
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How can nationalist leaders stand for political independence and monetary sovereignty while embracing the use of a supra‐national currency? At first sight, unilateral euroisation—the de facto adoption of the euro instead of a national currency—seems inconsistent with the goals of nationalism and independence.
Nicola Nones
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Re‐Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT European economies face the task of providing the necessary skills for the “twin transition” in a period of skill shortage. As a result, we may expect countries to reorient their labor market policy towards re‐skilling. We look for evidence of a reorientation in two relevant policy fields: active labor market policy (ALMP) and adult education (
Giuliano Bonoli +2 more
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Interpreting “The Snow Queen”: A comparison of two semantic universes
Sign Systems Studies, 2017 The article compares the famous fairy tale “The Snow Queen” by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen with a Soviet play of the same title by Evgenij Schwartz.
Tatjana Pilipoveca
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, 2015 Easter is the most important solemnity (just before Christmas) of the Church. It is the first of the five cardinal feasts of the Catholic liturgical year.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The multispecies family has grown rapidly over the past 30 years in the United States. Scholarly understanding of pets as legitimate family members is increasing, but most work has been qualitative in nature. Statistical modeling of these dynamics has been bound by a lack of access to large‐scale, nationally representative datasets paywalled ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
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The European Model Company Law Act project [PDF]
, 2008 On 27 and 28 September 2007, a commission formed on the initiative of the authors held its first meeting in Aarhus, Denmark to deliberate on its goal of drafting a "European Model Company Law Act" (EMCLA).
Baums, Theodor, Krüger Andersen, Paul
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Generation Inequality in an Aging Society: The Demographic Welfare Dilemma
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study provides empirical evidence that Japanese local governments have political incentives to prioritize policies favoring the elderly population in order to secure electoral support. Such preferences may come at the expense of the younger generation, whose presence is often associated with reduced short‐term political performance.
Dachen Sheng, Heather A. Montgomery
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Ōba Minako the Raconteur: Refashioning a Yamauba Tale [PDF]
, 2013 Ōba Minako (1930–2007) was captivated by the imaginative world of the mukashi-banashi (folktales) and otogi-banashi (fairy tales) of Japan and also by classical Western fairy tales, especially those by the Grimm brothers and Hans Christian Andersen. This
Wilson, Michiko N.
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