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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

The sport volunteering paradox: concerns from a legal and governance perspective, but the irony remains. [PDF]

Front Sports Act Living
Mountifield C, Sharpe S.
europepmc   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Camp, Nursing, and the Politics of Seriousness. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
Graziano TA.
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Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of intonation for children's understanding of verbal irony. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Smith J, Glenwright M.
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More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the current Danish reform of master's programmes as a case of contested marketization in higher education. While the reform aims to produce “labour‐market‐relevant” graduates by shortening degrees, introducing corporate programmes, and reducing enrolment, it reveals a fundamental tension between two competing economic ...
Johan Gøtzsche‐Astrup, Kaspar Villadsen   +1 more
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Cognitive processing of Chinese verbal irony: the role of reverse adjacency relations in reaction time and accuracy. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Huang M, Li Z, Zheng Y, Yang C.
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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite rising socioeconomic inequalities most people see individualised merit as crucial for social success. Drawing on surveys such as the ISSP a wealth of research examines trends in subjective perceptions, the relative importance accorded to merit and non‐merit factors for getting ahead in life and factors which influence lay perceptions ...
Sarah Irwin
wiley   +1 more source

This story shall the good [surgeon] teach. [PDF]

Ann R Coll Surg Engl
Rogers B.
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