Between empowerment and abuse: citizen participation beyond the post-democratic turn [PDF]
, 2020 In this special issue on “Democratization beyond the Post-Democratic Turn. Political Participation between Empowerment and Abuse”, we have explored changing understandings of participation in contemporary Western representative democracies through the ...
Butzlaff, Felix
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Transnational sense of place: cinematic scenes of Finnish war child memories
Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2011 In this article I discuss the role of popular geopolitics and people's performative repertoires in voicing the social silence. I have selected for close-reading some of the episodes of the film Mother of Mine, which tells the story of a Finnish ...
Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto-Arponen
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Blurring the boundaries: Prosumption, circularity and online sustainable consumption through Freecycle [PDF]
, 2015 © The Author(s) 2015. This article explores the digital exchange and moral ordering of sustainable and ethical consumption in online Freecycle groups.
Eden, Sally
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Religions, 2017 This article, part of a special issue on pedagogy and performance in Tibetan Buddhism, explores two closely-related yet apparently opposite Tibetan repertoires of virtuoso Buddhist mastery as sites of performative pedagogy. One of these modes of Buddhist
Annabella Pitkin
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Dancing the Pluriverse: Indigenous Performance as Ontological Praxis [PDF]
, 2016 This article discusses ways that Indigenous dance is an ontological praxis that is embodied and telluric, meaning “of the earth.” It looks at how dancing bodies perform in relationship to ecosystems and entities within them, producing ontological ...
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Heavy Hero or Digital Dummy? Multimodal Player–Avatar Relations in Final Fantasy 7 [PDF]
, 2004 This article analyses the player-avatar relation in Final Fantasy 7, drawing on multimodality theory to analyse textual structures both in the game and in the discourse of player-interviews and fan writing.
Burn, Andrew, Schott, Gareth
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BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2016 In this article we propose an institutional perspective on persona formation. Not unlike individual scientists, institutions such as funding bodies took an active interest in shaping the scientific persona.
Pieter Huistra, Kaat Wils
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Why Do They (Still) Sing Stories? Singing Narratives in Tanjung Bunga (Eastern Flores, Lamaholot, Indonesia) [PDF]
, 2016 In eastern Flores, on the Tanjung Bunga peninsula (among Western Lamaholot speakers), several times a year, ritual narratives (opak) are performed on a square dancing area, where all the clans of the same ceremonial land meet.
Rappoport, D. (Dana)
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Silent performances: Are “repertoires” really post-Kuhnian? [PDF]
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2017 Ankeny and Leonelli (2016) propose "repertoires" as a new way to understand the stability of certain research programs as well as scientific change in general. By bringing a more complete range of social, material, and epistemic elements into one framework, they position their work as a correction to the Kuhnian impulse in philosophy of science and ...
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Challenging the discursive positioning of young British Muslims through the multilingual performance of devotional song and poetry [PDF]
, 2017 This article presents data which challenge current hegemonic discourses in public and media spaces which reductively position young British Muslims as linguistically problematic.
Rosowsky, A.
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