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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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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 4, Page 478-494, October 2026.Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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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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Herring Today, Gone Tomorrow? Sweden's Conflict Over the 2024 Bothnian Herring Quota
Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT This article performs a narrative policy analysis of a Swedish conflict that erupted over the EU's commercial fishing quota for Bothnian herring in the north Baltic Sea. After scientists raised alarms and the European Commission recommended closing the fishery in 2024, diverse actors sought to influence decision‐making. Their accounts diverged,
Maris Boyd Gillette +1 more
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The Post-Communist Construction of Memories: Between a “Great Story” and Current-Politics Myth
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2010 This paper explores the shaping of social memories in post-communist societies, focusing in particular on the influence of the professedly rejected communist metanarrative on the methods and strategies of constructing national pasts in the new states of ...
Gordana Đerić
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The Postmodernism as a Mistrust of the Metanarrative [PDF]
, 2022 This thesis is concerned with the postmodern era, mainly from the viewpoint of postmodern philosophy. It includes the thoughts of Jean Francoise Lyotard, who is considered to be the founder of modern philosophy, about the mistrust of the contemporary ...
Kolář, Matěj
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, Volume 61, Issue 3, Page 481-489, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2017 The paper discusses the novel “Flying Mountain” (“Der fliegende Berg”) by Ch. Ransmayr, the famous German writer. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that the processes of genre and stylistic experimentation, which are characteristic ...
G.A. Frolov
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Thinking through payment in fieldwork
American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 236-248, August 2026.Abstract Ethnographic research has long illuminated diverse economic relations. Yet ethnographers have said little about an economic relation that they themselves often rely on: payment in fieldwork. Indeed, the particularities of monetary exchange between ethnographers and their interlocutors often remain hidden—or taboo.
Tijo Salverda +6 more
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Intertextuality and the metanarrative of new creation in Romans I: Sociological dimension [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2019 The application of the construct of new creation as the narrative substructure of Paul's letter to the church at Rome provides a coherent framework for drawing together the various motifs in the letter.
Dr P.R. Hesman +1 more
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