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Spirit, mind and body: the archaeology of monastic healing [PDF]
, 2019 Archaeology and material culture are used in this chapter to consider how monastic experience responded to illness, ageing and disability. The approach taken is influenced by the material study of religion, which interrogates how bodies and things engage
Gilchrist, Roberta
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Why we should see international law as a structure: Unpicking international law’s ontology and agency [PDF]
, 2021 This article identifies how three dominant ideas of international law (as a process, an institution and a practice) see its agency, concluding that all three share a reluctance to see international law as doing anything more than enabling the operation ...
Sinclair, Adriana
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Aquatic Matter: Water in Victorian Fiction
Open Cultural Studies, 2019 This essay looks at water in Victorian fiction and argues that it is important not just as motif or symbol—which is how literary criticism has traditionally approached it—but as a metamorphic substance. I propose a material ecocritical framework in order
Kluwick Ursula
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Nature as a Network of Morphological Infocomputational Processes for Cognitive Agents [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents a view of nature as a network of infocomputational agents organized in a dynamical hierarchy of levels. It provides a framework for unification of currently disparate understandings of natural, formal, technical, behavioral and social
Dodig Crnkovic, Gordana
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Developing Environmental Agency and Engagement Through Young People’s Fiction. [PDF]
, 2010 This article explores the extent to which stories for young people encourage environmental engagement and a sense of agency. Our discussion is informed by the work of Paul Ricoeur (on hermeneutics and narrative), John Dewey (on primacy of experience ...
Bigger, Stephen, Webb, Jean
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Understanding the exercise of agency within structural inequality: the case of personal debt [PDF]
, 2009 This article contributes to debates about agency (meaning the behaviour of individuals) and structure, by drawing on empirical research into personal debt.
Bauman +32 more
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Spaces of work and everyday life: labour geographies and the agency of unorganised temporary migrant workers [PDF]
, 2009 In this study, I focus on the agency of unorganised temporary migrant workers' people who travel away to work for just a few weeks or months. Such workers have been relatively neglected in labour geography.
Rogaly, Ben
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Forging Insights: Indian Agency Blacksmiths of the American Frontier [PDF]
, 2020 Following the War of 1812, the United States government sought to more directly deal with the Native tribes in the American interior. The establishment of Indian agency blacksmith shops was one significant component of this endeavor.
Novey, Adam G
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Materials Research Express, 2022 Hot-wire laser welding is additive manufacturing (AM) technique that allows for the direct creation of complicated objects by melting layers of wire. This process is characterized by the use of hot-wire process, unification with the laser welding (LW ...
Nirut Naksuk +4 more
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