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“The Horror of Darkness”

, 2013
“Life,” so Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space on a note of steadfast optimism, “begins well, it begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house.”1 To the critic, Bachelard’s remarks might be seen as emblematic of a kind of failure in phenomenology to think outside an anthropomor-phised cosmos, in which the endless void of ...
openaire   +1 more source

Indigenizing the Ledger: An Indigenous Pathway to Accounting « Autochtoniser » le grand livre : une voie autochtone vers la profession comptable

Accounting Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Indigenous accountants are underrepresented in Canadian accounting practice and education despite ongoing educational and employment recruitment strategies. This article explores reasons why current Indigenous employment strategies seem not to be working by examining cultural chasms between Indigenous and Eurocentric worldviews.
Justin (Jah'kota) Holness, Toby Willis‐Camp, Jacqueline Gagnon   +2 more
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The Anthropology of Horror: Theoretical Challenges and Epistemological Potential

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
From a disciplinary angle, horror could be viewed as a more imaginative, illegitimate brother of anthropology, or rather, its more poetic, kindred soul.
Marko Pišev
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Existential and Phenomenological Horror in Les Diaboliques

Film-Philosophy
This article will show how, through an expressionist style that references Gothic and noir cinema, Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) mediates concepts found in contemporary post-war French existentialism, in particular the phenomenology of ...
Daniel Tilsley
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HORROR FILMS IN UNCONSCIOUS ANTHROPOLOGICAL STRATEGIES OF BIOPOWER

Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2018
Purpose. The article is devoted to horror films as forms of anthropological crisis in mass culture, which generate specific meanings and are presented in ways of control over consumer society, as well as act as unconscious ideological mediators of ...
S. A. Malenko, A. G. Nekita
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The Australian Union Movement and the Politics of Full Employment, 1945–1976

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that the Australian union movement played a crucial and often overlooked role in both the success and rapid decline of Australia's post‐war full employment framework. A particular focus is placed on the unions' response to the Fraser Liberal‐Country Party government's 1976 abandonment of post‐war full employment and the ...
Owen Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

Cringe Comedy as Social Horror

Rivista di Estetica
Why do we enjoy comedy that makes us cringe in embarrassment? This paper makes the case that cringe comedy is a form of social horror, and many of the theoretical approaches that have been developed to analyze the appeal of horror fictions can be ...
Matthew Strohl
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Boots in Bowral: The Military Occupation of Bowral and Its Effects on Australian Defence Policy

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 13 February 1978, the Governor‐General of Australia signed an order to call out Australian Defence Forces (ADF) to the New South Wales (NSW) country town of Bowral, on the advice of the Federal Executive Council. The troops were deployed to secure the town while it hosted the Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting (CHOGRM), which
James Mortensen, Sue Thompson
wiley   +1 more source

Making Mining Licit: Gold, Commodification, and the Everyday Performance of Law in Colombia

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ethnographies of resource‐making have shown that the extraction of resource value from objects is premised on obviating the emplaced lifeworlds that surrounded objects before they traveled to consumer markets. Much of this literature looks at such supply‐chain disentanglement from the viewpoint of corporate and formal regulatory practices ...
Jesse Jonkman
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source