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The Liminal Space of Medieval Dance Practices: The Case of St. Eluned’s Feast Day
Arts, 2022 This article scrutinizes the use of liminality as a term to understand medieval dance practices. With the case of the feast day of St. Eluned described in Gerald of Wales Itinerarium Cambriae, I first present common ways that historians and theologians ...
Laura Hellsten
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Gothic Matters: Introduction [PDF]
, 2016 Once considered escapist or closely linked to fantasy, the Gothic genre (or mode, as scholars increasingly call it) has recently begun to be explored for its material concerns and engagement with real-world matters.
Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
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Work Has Changed, Has HRM? Designing for the Distributed, Fragmented, and Fluid Era
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper addresses the growing misalignment between traditional human resource management (HRM) systems and the realities of distributed, fluid, and fragmented work. To address this issue, we introduce the FLUID‐HRM framework—a layered design architecture that reconfigures core HRM domains (resourcing, rewards, development, relations, work ...
Černe Matej, Lamovšek Amadeja
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An Anthropological Analysis of the Arbaeen Pilgrimage Using the Theory of Rites of Passage [PDF]
اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعیRites are a set of actions performed within a society for specific forms and purposes, claiming the influence of supernatural forces on people. Rites are divided into collective (at the societal level) and individual (at the personal level) categories ...
zahra maher
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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Being in the zone and vital subjectivity: On the liminal sources of sport and art [PDF]
, 2017 With the aim of re-contextualising the social dimensions of Being in the Zone whilst retaining its psychological resonance, this contribution thinks Bitz alongside van Gennep's notion of liminality and Turner's notion of the liminoid.
Stenner, Paul
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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Lifedeath: The Liminality of Role Enactment in the Theatrum Mundi
ReligionsFor millennia, since Homer to postmodern theatre, the world has been imagined as a stage and life as a play. The truth of this metaphor, however, rests on mere assertions. This essay assesses the validity of this metaphor by examining drama as enactment.
Simeon Theojaya
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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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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Human–wildlife interactions are becoming more common as we progress through the Anthropocene. People tend to feed wildlife more regularly as it is often popularised by social media and can counteract their disconnect from the natural world. These interactions impact wildlife behaviour, feeding ecology and zoonotic transmission dynamics. Due to
Jane Faull +9 more
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