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Uncanny spaces for higher education: teaching and learning in virtual worlds [PDF]

, 2008
This paper brings together the theory of the uncanny as it emerges in cultural theory, with an understanding of the uncanniness and troublesomeness seen to be inherent in certain understandings of teaching and learning in higher education.
Bayne, Sian
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Liminality in migration

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The article addresses the issues of population migration, both planned and systematic, as well as uncontrolled and illegal, which have become an integral part of the existence of a globalized world.
Oksana Tereshchenko
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The Promised Land: A Postcolonial Homiletic of Promise in the Asian American Context

, 2018
Asian American Christians carry within them a triple consciousness by being Asian, American, and Christian. Being Christian specifically means being a pilgrim bound for the Promised Land.
Yang, Sunggu
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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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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal Liminality: How Temporal Parameters in Immigration Policy Adversely Affect the Lives and Futures of Precariously Documented Immigrant Young Adults

Social Sciences
In this article, I build on liminal legality to highlight how 1.5-generation Latinx immigrant young adults who benefited from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) confronted an additional dimension of uncertainty, which I describe as temporal ...
Alessandra Bazo Vienrich
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Crossing borders: new teachers co-constructing professional identity in performative times [PDF]

, 2012
This paper draws on a range of theoretical perspectives on the construction of new teachers’ professional identity. It focuses particularly on the impact of the development in many national education systems of a performative culture of the management ...
Ball S., Bauman Z., Benjamin S., Bhatti G., Bhopal K., Bourdieu P., Bretz R., Bryk A.S., Busher H., Carmen Mohamed, Chris Wilkins, Coles M.J., Craft A., Deakin Crick R., Furlong J., Galton M.J., Gewirtz S., Giddens A., Giddens A., Gillborn D., Gillborn D., Goffman E., Hargreaves D.H., Hugh Busher, Joan Smith, Lave J., Leaton Gray S., Lortie R., Mahony P., McLaughlin M.W., Mead G., Michalis Kakos, Mirza H.S., Morton S., Ozga J., Paechter C., Rudduck J., Sachs J., Seddon T., Smith J.M., Tajfel H., Turner V., Webb R., Wenger E., Whitty G., Wood L., Wortham S.   +46 more
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EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm   +2 more
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“Gestures of approach”: aspects of liminality and labyrinths

Literator, 2011
The purpose of this article is to explore some matters of liminality relevant to labyrinths. To this end, the discussion opens by considering some implications of the way liminality is defined before moving on to an examination of labyrinths in terms of ...
Tony Ullyatt
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