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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study developed and validated the Critical Right Scale (CRS) to measure emerging critical right attitudes and revised the Critical Social Justice Attitudes Scale (CSJAS‐R), replicating its psychometric evaluation. A nationwide convenience sample of Finnish adults (n = 626) completed an online survey. Item screening used exploratory factor
Oskari Lahtinen
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Comparative Literature: East & WestIn recent years, the resurgence of mythical elements combined with metanarrative strategies in contemporary Chinese science fiction has emerged as a significant direction in literary narrative experimentation.
Aierfati Ainiwa
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The Mainstreaming of Environmental Criticism: Theory and Nature
Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023 Contemporary theory has been framed by structuralist, poststructuralist and postmodernist discussions about social, cultural and linguistic formation of meaning. Structuralists argue that meaning is an external feature. It depends on the linguistic
Barış Mete, Defne Erdem Mete
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Narrative Horizons: Deliberate Derangement in Oceanic Climate Fiction
Future Humanities, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 2026.ABSTRACT Although we live in the Anthropocene—the geological age of humankind, wherein humans have measurably impacted the biosphere—we struggle to narrate the Anthropocene. In particular, we struggle to give narrative shape to its foremost feature: anthropogenic climate change.
Mark Celeste
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Trauma and the (Im)Possibility of Representation: Patrick McGrath’s Trauma
Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2013 : The present paper explores the notion of trauma as the epitome of the postmodern crises of representation and communication. Through the example of Patrick McGrath’s novel Trauma (2008), the trauma phenomenon will be scrutinized as thematic and ...
David Kerler
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The social pathology of polycrisis
Global SustainabilityNon-technical summary The polycrisis, an inadvertent peril of our own making, poses an existential threat to the modern world. Given humanity's innate desire to live safely, and to prosper, what explains this self-inflicted danger?
Stephen J. Purdey
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Futures of Everyday Life: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Future Personas in Scenarios
FUTURES &FORESIGHT SCIENCE, Volume 8, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Scenario reports, holding a long‐standing tradition in foresight and futures studies, act as an essential document for organizations to prepare for possible, plausible, and alternative futures. Focusing on descriptions and representations of everyday life, we examined 29 future persona narratives from six publications—covering a wide field ...
Gerhard Schönhofer +3 more
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Postmodernism and Education in Nursing Science: The Case of Clinical Skills
Nursing Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 2, April 2026.ABSTRACT During the development of theories that took place in the human and social sciences during the second half of the 20th century, when the current of postmodernism was particularly prevalent among French thinkers (French Theory), the human body preoccupied philosophy and sociology as a social construction in relation to other parameters such as ...
Elissavet Nikolaou +3 more
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The metanarrative of rural environmentalism: Rhetorical activism in Bold Nebraska’s Harvest the Hope
Public relations inquiry, 2019 The ongoing, decade-long fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline in the state of Nebraska has incorporated traditional levers of public relations such as media relations and lobbying but has also borrowed from the long-standing tradition of rhetorical ...
D. Moscato
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Le terrain : la fin d’un grand récit ?
Bulletin de l’Association de Géographes Français, 2015 Fieldwork – i.e collecting data outside – has been promoted, thanks to Paul Vidal de La Blache, as the main method of geographers. It appears as a metanarrative (according to the definition given by Jean-François Lyotard) insofar as it enables geography ...
Yann Calbérac
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