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Playing simplicity: polemical stupidity in the writing of the French Enlightenment [PDF]
, 2002 Polemical stupidity - a critical concept drawn from Bakhtin – denotes the strategic refusal to understand. It appears most familiarly in the character of the Fool (like Candide), who genuinely does not understand the world, thus unmasking its ...
Howells, Robin
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 132-149, March 2026.Drawing on the ethnography of migrant care workers in eldercare in Shanghai, this article reveals the evolving landscape of caregiving and kinship practices in contemporary China. The ethnography presents the emic perspective of care workers, who actively develop symbolic trajectories for claiming kinship through ‘filial heart’ in caregiving.
Xinyuan Wang
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«Différant des Autres», Espacements et Temporalités Spectrales
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT That night that he agreed to our suggestion that we accompany him outside, for the whole night or until the overflow has passed, M seemed to be in direct contact with all the layers of astronomy, inhabiting all temporalities simultaneously. Outside, lying/sitting on the picnic table, in the pitch‐black darkness of the night in the woods, under
Amélie‐Anne Mailhot
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Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, Volume 70, Issue 2, Summer / été 2026.Abstract This article aims to enrich critical understandings of urban data platforms and their role in smart city implementation. Leveraging insights from critical data studies and drawing on the “data gaze” concept coined by David Beer, we examine the implementation of an open data portal in Edmonton, Canada to gain insight into the smart city‐in‐the ...
Joshua Evans +2 more
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Propositions pour un imaginaire des clubs de lectrices : Delaume, Delorme, Rychner, Volodine
Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 2023 La prolifération récente des clubs de lecture dans l’espace culturel francophone pousse à interroger la façon dont de tels espaces sociaux informent la fiction et alimentent un imaginaire de la lecture comme activité politisée et collective, notamment ...
Mathilde Zbaeren
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Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 5, Page 319-331, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article contributes to sociolinguistic scholarship on register formations, digital technology, and labor by analyzing technofuturist registers—historically inherited, typified, and socially shared modes of speaking about technology. These registers create distinct modes of feeling, relating, idealizing, and desiring technology and its ...
Alfonso Del Percio
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Parenting as contested practice between experts, audiences, and selves: An introduction
Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2025.Abstract Interrogating what constitutes “good parenting” captures and reflects multiple debates within and across different societies, milieus, and power constellations. In this Special Issue, Contested Parenting. Experts, Audiences, Selves, we bring together seven articles and a commentary that tackle how people move through the labyrinth of diverse ...
Heike Drotbohm, Konstanze N'Guessan
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Molière and his players [PDF]
, 1925 Thesis (M.A.)--Boston ...
Kelly, Katherine Christine
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Ethos, Volume 53, Issue 2, June 2025.Abstract According to the notion of “parental determinism,” parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills.
Konstanze N'Guessan
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Le bateau "imaginaire". Imaginaire et mémoire dans la transformation sociale et politique
Revista Filosofía UIS, 2009 Cet article explore, à travers l’imaginaire, les conditions de possibilité du changement social et politique. Prenant comme point de départ L’institution imaginaire de la société de Castoriadis, l’article cherche des voies pour défendre la possibilité d ...
Isabelle Delcroix, Yago Mellado López
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