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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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Transformations of the Beirut River: Between Temporary and Permanent Liminality

Urban Planning
This article presents the case of the Beirut River corridor in Lebanon, which defines the administrative border between the capital Beirut, its eastern and south-eastern suburbs.
Christine Mady
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Reframing the Chipped Edge: Combining Materiality, Ontology, and Embodiment to Rethink Stone Tool‐Making and Human Conscious Behavior in the Paleolithic Past

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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Haunted Care: Engaging Health Hauntology to Understand Health Citizenship in Evolving Welfare States

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies a hauntological framework to explore how health citizenship in the UK is shaped by the spectral presence of neoliberal policies, particularly through increased use of Public‐Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS).
Anna Horton
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Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
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Shifting centres: crafting a world through language in translingual writing [PDF]

, 2014
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Mamo, Josianne
core  

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Jude The Liminal: A Catastrophic Pursuit?

Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2016
Thomas Hardy's last novel Jude the Obscure (1895) is centred on its working-class protagonist Jude Fawley's efforts rst to become a scholar, then his experiences of resisting the orthodoxies of his society and lastly defying Christianity as a ...
Gülşah GÖÇMEN
doaj  

Aspirations‐Capabilities of School‐to‐Work Transition in a Migratory Context: A Case of Thai Tertiary‐Level Migrants in Taiwan

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores aspirations‐capabilities of Thai migrants who transitioned from tertiary education to employment in Taiwan. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with 23 Thai migrants, this study unpacks three distinct mobility trajectories under a processual perspective.
Pakorn Phalapong
wiley   +1 more source

Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
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