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Introducing the Anthropology of Adolescence Introduction à l'anthropologie de l'adolescence

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Adolescence is widely recognized as a key life stage, yet its meaning and experience remain under‐explored due to the complex interplay between biological and social transformations. While researchers across fields such as psychology and public health increasingly frame adolescence as a ‘critical period’, anthropology offers distinctive insights that ...
Emily H. Emmott, Benjamin Theobald, Mark Dyble   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individualization and the aporias of modernity [PDF]

, 2014
Ulrich Beck’s musings on individualization have been described as a theory that provides a convincing explanation of what is happening in society, but has it seemed convincing because of its superior explanatory power or because it says what those who ...
Argyrou, Vassos
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Disclosure, disbelief, enclosure: listening with precarious kids in London Témoignage, incrédulité, enfermement: écouter les enfants en situation de précarité à Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article interrogates the role of testimonial disclosure as a mechanism of access and a barrier to visibility for marginal people, particularly adolescents, in the UK. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2021 and 2024 in alternative educational provision (AP), as well as in English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes ...
Kelly Fagan Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

The embodied social studies classroom – Repositioning the body in the social sciences in school

Cogent Education, 2019
Social studies have often been explored as dis-embodied which results in a limited view of what happens in the classroom. Based in Dewey’s transactional view of embodied relationality, Todd’s discussion on the liminality of pedagogical relationships and ...
Louise Sund, Mikael Quennerstedt, Marie Öhman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The liminality of training spaces: Places of private/public transitions [PDF]

, 2006
This paper draws upon research, conducted for the London West Learning and Skills Council, on the training experiences of women with dependent children. One of the striking revelations of the research, we suggest, is the way in which training spaces are ...
Adam, Azaryahou, Bain, Department for Education and Employment, Department for Education and Skills, Elodie Marandet, Emma Wainwright, Fiona Smith, Fiske, Giddens, Hayford, Herod, Horelli, Kingsmill, Marilyn Diosi, Martin, McDowell, McDowell, McDowell, McDowell, McGivney, McGivney, McGivney, Milroy, Nashashibi, O’Connor, Pahl, Philo, Pratt, Quinn, Roberts, Schuller, Shields, Social Exclusion Unit, Susan Buckingham, Turner, Turner, Turner   +37 more
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Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Liminality in Organic Agricultural Tourism on Well-Being: The Role of Memorable Tourism Experiences as a Mediating Variable

Agriculture
Organic agricultural tourism integrates organic, toxin-free natural environments with agricultural industry and cultural lifestyles, creating a liminal space and experience away from everyday life.
Dan Wang, Ching-Cheng Shen
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Reshaping Academic Practice and Relationships within the Department Of Plant Sciences [PDF]

, 2007
At the University of Cambridge, a research and development project concerned with teaching and learning in small-group tutorials has been initiated in Department of Plant Sciences.
Johnstone, Keith, Jordan, Katy, Tracy, Frances   +2 more
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
wiley   +1 more source

Femme-liminale: corporeal performativity in death metal [PDF]

, 2014
Given the research undertaken into notions of Dark Leisure (Spracklen, 2013), space becomes an engendered negotiated terrain not only in terms of performing masculine inscribed music such as Death Metal but occupying space within the scene itself ...
Shadrack, Jasmine Hazel
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