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Derelict architecture: Aesthetics of an unaesthetic space [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The main focus of this article is the question of the aesthetics of an unaesthetic ruined space.The author also pays particular attention to the ambivalence that exists in contemporary derelict architecture, referred to as ‘modern ruins’, and tries to ...
Nieszczerzewska, Małgorzata
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Are We Conflating Innovation Resistance With Innovation (Non‐)Adoption? A Reflection and Potential Resolution

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Academic Summary In the realm of innovation studies, examining innovation responses—encompassing both adoption and resistance—has been a central focus for more than six decades. However, most innovation studies only focus on the behavioral dimension of these responses and simply equate resistance with non‐adoption.
Juliëtte van Acker   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism: The Case of Polish Far‐Right Activists in Britain

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this ...
Rafal Soborski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
wiley   +1 more source

Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
wiley   +1 more source

The contradictions of exile : escape, testimony, and ethics in Gao Xingjian’s One man’s Bible

open access: yes, 2018
The present essay proposes to focus more closely on One Man’s Bible as encapsulating some of the tensions and contradictions of exile as a theme in Gao’s work and ...
VEG, Sebastian
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The Japanese Military “Comfort Women” Issue From the Perspective of Memory Politics: A Comparative Study of South Korea and Taiwan

open access: yesPacific Focus, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares the political responses of the Republic of Korea and the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the issue of Japanese military “comfort women.” While existing research has primarily examined victims' human rights, Japan's postwar responsibility, and Korea–Japan diplomatic disputes, it has overlooked why two nations with comparable ...
Kyounghee Cho, Siyao Xing
wiley   +1 more source

Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away—(Re)conceptualizing nostalgic deprivation as a predictor for radical‐right support

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The return to “old glories” is one of the main promises of radical‐right parties, picking up on widespread longings for the collective past. Many people argue that radical‐right support is motivated by Relative Deprivation, that is, the perception of being worse off than others.
Carla Grosche, Tobias Rothmund
wiley   +1 more source

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