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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Desired and Feared Identities and Their Role in Occupational Identity Regulation
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This paper extends theory by showing how occupational identity regulation operates jointly through both desired and feared identities which, in combination, enforce normative control. Taking a narrative identity perspective and drawing on an ethnographic and interview‐based study of veterinarians, we make three principal contributions to our ...
Sarah Page‐Jones, Andrew D. Brown
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Atlas Unplugged: Re‐Imagining the Premises and Prospects of Capitalism for Business and Society
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s dystopian work of fiction, became a cornerstone of libertarian philosophy and its influence continues as an articulation of contemporary capitalism. In introducing this Special Issue, we revisit its core assumptions and contradictions in order to reimagine capitalism and reflect on the potential of management studies
Rick Delbridge +4 more
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Dying to be Seen: Snuff-Fiction's Problematic Fantasies of "Reality"
, 2011 The mythic Snuff film has remained a persistent cinematic rumour since the mid-1970s. The discourses that surround Snuff are preoccupied by two factors: (a) the formal aesthetic, and (b) their alleged role as a kind of titillating pornography.
Jones, Steve
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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Horror Pedagogies: Lessons from Stephen King’s fiction
In education, as in life, we need fiction, even and especially horror fiction, to shine light into the darker corners of our social and cultural lives. We need horror to remind us of all the repressed realities and the power imbalances we must confront ...
Parkes, Frey, Hopkins, Susan
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Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.The IMPOSTERS study analysed 150 recurring ‘human’ Simpsons characters and found that periodontitis or tooth loss was associated with a 23‐fold higher hazard of all‐cause mortality. This was reported in the Simpsons universe, with the death of ‘Bleeding Gums’ Murphy, 3 years before the first such reports in our universe.
Praveen Sharma, Thomas Dietrich
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, 2015 The monstrous landscape and the revenge of nature are recurring motifs in Australian cinema. In the horror genre, the idea of the monstrous landscape emerges from, and builds upon, an established tradition in Australian cinema in which landscape ...
Ryan, Mark David
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THE REVENANT SCREEN: Cinematic Hauntings, Horror, and American Culture
, 2020 This thesis analyzes ghosts and hauntings in horror cinema from the earliest inceptions through the early twenty-first century through the lens of cultural history.
Pisano, Vincent
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton +2 more
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