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Burying Futures: Artisanal Mining Deaths and the Politics of Negligence in Zimbabwe
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the gold‐mining town of Kwekwe, central Zimbabwe, injury and death are a constant presence. Collapsing shafts, sudden explosions, gang fights, and neglected health infrastructure characterize the everyday lives of the town's impoverished residents.
Melusi Nkomo
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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A Psychoanalytic Analysis of Melancholy in the Early Novels of Güzide Sabri
İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı DergisiMelancholy is an important topic in medical and psychological research, and the study of this mood, which leaves deep traces in a person's inner world, is crucial. In psychiatry, melancholy is considered a subtype of depressive disorders.
Merve Esra Özgürbüz
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Burton's Anatomy and the Intellectual Traditions of Melancholy
Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2012 This article discusses the ways in which Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) inherited and transformed the various European traditions of thinking about melancholy. It divides these traditions into four categories—medical, natural-philosophical,
Angus Gowland
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Canada's Ethics Commissioner and the Watchdog Model of Ethics Enforcement
Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract Despite notable progress, the OECD recently noted that conflict of interest regulation still suffers from poor implementation and how to ensure effective enforcement of ethics rules remains an important challenge. One popular but under‐examined approach is to rely on an ethics watchdog: an independent agency with few powers that can ...
Luc Juillet
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Death to be remembered. Melancholy topographies and images of oblivion in Edgar Allan Poe’s poems
ArReDia, 2015 This article aims at analyzing Edgar Allan Poe’s poetic language regarding the creation of images and metaphors to talk about death, in special, images of melancholy and oblivion.
Adolfo Frota
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The circular insanity of philosophy: an aesthetic vision
Lebenswelt: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience, 2023 A long tradition, whose echo is still perceptible in some contemporary reflections, combines philosophy and melancholy, often indentifying melancholy as the beginning of philosophy.
Stefano Oliva
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Skazane na melancholię. O emocjach we współczesnej chorwackiej poezji kobiecej
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, 2015 The aim of the study is to answer the question what the postmodern melancholy is and how it manifests itself through emotions in contemporary works of selected Croatian poets: Božica Zoko, Marijana Radmilović and Tea Gikić. The analysis of poems focused
Zuzanna Gawałkiewicz
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Exercising Agency for a Better Future: Adolescents in Korea's Kinship Care
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The literature on adolescents' perspectives on growing up in kinship care is limited. The study aims to explore the lived experiences of adolescents in grandparent kinship care by examining how they respond to adversity, build support and exercise agency. The study recruited 22 grandparent–adolescent pairs in a large Korean city.
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