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Abstract This paper brings together two brilliant analysts of social encounters, Jane Austen and Erving Goffman. It proceeds by applying some of Goffman's terms for face‐to‐face interactions to several scenes from Austen's novels in which characters try to extract information from others while preventing others from extracting information from them. In
Richard Handler
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Intrinsic neural timescales exhibit different lengths in distinct meditation techniques
Meditation encompasses a range of practices employing diverse induction techniques, each characterized by a distinct attentional focus. In Mantra meditation, for instance, practitioners direct their attention narrowly to a given sentence that is ...
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La femme fait la maison: The Accumulation of Surplus Value through Family Planning in Burkina Faso1
Abstract Since the 1960s, demographers, international donors, and governments have calculated the political, economic, and social benefits of modern contraception usage in West Africa. We evidence how family planning technologies (FPTs) that are tethered to population development extract double value (productive and reproductive labour) from Burkinabè ...
T.D. Harper‐Shipman, Katian Napon
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A COMPARISON OF EXERCISE AND MEDITATION IN REDUCING PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO STRESS
Wesley E. Sime
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'KURZ, Gerhard, Meditation und Erinnerung in der Frühen Neuzeit' [PDF]
Patrice Veit
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Deadly Lifeworlds Meet Palliative Politics: Struggle in Circulation
Abstract This paper locates acute and ongoing crises of coloniality and ecology within struggles over circulation that are anchored in infrastructure. If infrastructure organises movement—including its constraint in carceral forms—then it is also a linchpin for materialising distinct regimes of motion (Nail 2020a; Marx in Motion: A New Materialist ...
Deborah Cowen
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Popular Techniques of Buddhist Meditation as Apparatus for Mental Health Development in Thailand [PDF]
Orawan Pilunowad
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