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Strategies of personification of the image of London: From binary conflicts to systems
Urbis et Orbis: Mikroistoriâ i Semiotika Goroda, 2023 The article is devoted to the city of London as one of the main topoi of British literature. London acquires the status of a central image in the Victorian novel where its anthropomorphism is created by binary conflicts of richness and poverty, splendor ...
Natalia Zelezinskaya
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A Dream, please! L’antropologia performativa del ventennio berlusconiano (1994-2014)
Antropologia e Teatro, 2015 The complex political, social and cultural effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall have shaped the modern public arena. Neoliberalism, the resulting economic crisis of 2008 and the simultaneous digital revolution saw the State succumbing to individualism ...
Claudio Bernardi
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A Broken Screw in the Soviet System. The Life and Fate of Leonid Nikolaev
Connexe, 2020 The tectonic change of 1917 not only disrupted the country but also placed, for a brief moment, a “little man” at the centre of “big story.” Nikolaev was a typical representative of ordinary people being pushed into a corner by circumstances and ...
Andrey Sorokin
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Visual Art, Corporeal Economies, and the “New Normal” of Surveillant Policing in the War on Terror
Surveillance & Society, 2019 This paper is about the racial and colonial inequalities of visibility within surveillance structures that seek to monitor and regulate bodies within the contemporary Canadian context.
Susan Cahill
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Akademisk Kvarter, 2019 The industrialization produces a veil in its aestheticization, and in this veil lies a criticism and heterotopia in its images of dreams. This is the dynamic duality in Walter Benjamin’s incomplete project, ‘Paris, Capital of the Ninetieth Century ...
Bent Fausing
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Central Asian States in the International Rankings of Democracy Development
RUDN Journal of Political Science, 2021 Since gaining independence, Central Asian states declared their commitment to democratization and development of a market economy, building their political systems based on the uncontested Western liberal-democratic model.
Elena G. Garbuzarova
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ITALIAN VECTOR OF US POLITICS DURING THE PRESIDENCY OF JOHN KENNEDY
Американська історія і політика, 2023 The article is devoted to the changes in the US foreign policy towards Italy during the presidency of John Kennedy (1961-1963). The study examines two main aspects of American-Italian relations of the specified period: the formation of Italian ...
Mykhailo Samofatov
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“Un Geste Suffit”? Unpacking the Inconvenient Truths about Al Gore’s Celebrity Activism
Persona Studies, 2018 The present work interrogates Al Gore’s persona as a climate change activist with reference to a process we describe by the neologism “personification”: the act of constructing/presenting a public persona in order to cultivate impressions that enable ...
David Marshall +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Study‐abroad programs are increasingly adopted and supported by institutions and governments as a strategic tool for deepening internationalisation and public diplomacy through people‐to‐people, institution‐to‐institution and country‐to‐country connections.
Ly Thi Tran, Thinh Huynh
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
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