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Hollow institutions: Merleau‐Ponty and the possibility of coordinated action

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article addresses the phenomenon of political powerlessness, understood—following Hannah Arendt—as the separation of “words and deeds,” a condition in which words become “empty” and actions lose their overall intelligibility, increasingly relying on coercion. I take up Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenology of institution to explore this condition.
Daniil Koloskov
wiley   +1 more source

Climate change, bodies and diplomacy: Performing watery futures in Tuvalu

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract By examining contemporary Tuvaluan climate diplomacy, this article advocates for a greater engagement with feminist geopolitics to interrogate the embodied practices of climate diplomacy. It focuses on how human bodies – the UN Secretary General, Tuvaluan children, and the Foreign Minister of Tuvalu – have been used in contemporary ...
Liam Saddington
wiley   +1 more source

Zone-wise occupancy schedules developed using Time Use Survey data for building energy performance simulations. [PDF]

open access: yesData Brief, 2023
Sood D   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Spelling is the most standardized level of language, and prescriptive spelling norms in former British colonies often advocate adherence to British spelling norms which differs from the local linguistic reality. Hence, recent research on the evolution of postcolonial Englishes and the Americanization of Englishes worldwide has questioned the ...
Temitayo Olatoye
wiley   +1 more source

Direction of Arrival Method for L-Shaped Array with RF Switch: An Embedded Implementation Perspective. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel), 2023
Troccoli T   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cultural conceptualisations and the cultural model of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract The article scrutinises the concepts of fertility and infertility as reflected in Nigerian English. For this, a mixed‐methods approach is suggested that uses the Corpus of Global Web‐based English as a resource to shed light on lexical frequency and collocations, as well as a newspaper corpus of online articles from The Guardian and Vanguard ...
Anna Finzel
wiley   +1 more source

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