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An Emotional Economy of Mundane Objects [PDF]
, 2014 Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article illuminates the affective potentialities of objects. We examine the circulation of Kurdish music cassettes in Turkey during the restrictive and strife-laden period of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. We find
Ger, G., Kuruoglu, A.
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Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1750-1770, September 2025.Abstract We propose that a critical examination of infrastructure sabotage should consider its material and immaterial dimension, and its constructive and destructive effects. Combining these two antagonisms, we suggest a matrix of four quadrants that describes (1) deconstructive material effects, (2) constructive material effects, (3) destructive ...
Theo Aalders, Eric Mutisya Kioko
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The German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 2, Page 91-108, Spring 2025.Abstract This essay explores the disturbing presence of anti‐Black language and tropes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's recent, celebrated novel Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum. Drawing on Toni Morrison's classic analysis in Playing in the Dark, I argue Özdamar's anti‐Blackness is characterized by a double‐valence: on one hand, Özdamar's anti‐Blackness ...
Barbara N. Nagel
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A tale of two mayors: Courts and politics in Iran and Turkey [PDF]
, 2004 Countries such as Iran and Turkey do not fit comfortably into the democratic and authoritarian categories. In these countries, elections are held regularly, and the will of the people is accepted as one source of sovereignty.
Shambayati H.
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Sufi Warriorism in Muslim Southeast Asia
Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 502-516, December 2024.Abstract Sufism (tasawwuf) has been characterized in the extant literature as a pacifist strand in Islam that has shaped the landscapes of Muslim Southeast Asia (also known as the Malay World) since the last five hundred years. This article challenges such historiographical interpretation by examining the multifarious circumstances that motivated Sufis
Khairudin Aljunied
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Passeurs: Narratives of Border Crossing in the Western Alps [PDF]
, 2019 This article focuses on representations of passeurs: migrant smugglers across the French-Italian and Swiss-Italian borders. I analyze a heterogeneous corpus of novels, films, and essays published between 1990-2017 that refer to different waves of ...
Di Blasio, Federica
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A Migrant Archive: Chronicling Religious and Spiritual Experiences during the Pandemic 2020–23*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 333-342, September 2024.This article focuses on a digital platform which invited forced migrants to document their experiences during the Covid pandemic, resulting in an archive of digital materials, much of it relating to religion and spirituality: around 1000 contributions by around 800 asylum‐seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants. Using smartphones, they shared audio
Marie Gillespie
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Numbers in Context: Cardinals, Ordinals, and Nominals in American English
Cognitive Science, Volume 48, Issue 6, June 2024.Abstract There are three main types of number used in modern, industrialized societies. Cardinals count sets (e.g., people, objects) and quantify elements of conventional scales (e.g., money, distance), ordinals index positions in ordered sequences (e.g., years, pages), and nominals serve as unique identifiers (e.g., telephone numbers, player numbers).
Greg Woodin, Bodo Winter
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Journal of University of RaparinWhite colour is the source of all other colours, and it is one of the most effective colours on human life. It is widely used in human related stuffs such as houses, furniture, clothes, cars, cutleries, tools as well as in almost all healthcare-related stuffs such as hospital buildings, physicians and nurses’ dresses, bedcovers, curtains, medical tools,
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Spartan Daily, April 7, 2005 [PDF]
, 2003 Volume 124, Issue 43https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/10115/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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