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Performing history, negotiating patriarchy: Actressing as gendered labor and the fragmentation of womanhood in Chinese historical costume drama

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Gender inequality remains widespread in the film and television production industry, yet it is seldom examined in relation to backstage working environments. This article integrates on‐screen and off‐screen perspectives to investigate the working lives of Chinese actresses.
Yajie Li, Yuhao Ding
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Humour and Nostalgia in Dutch Cabaret

European Journal of Theatre and Performance, 2019
In this paper, I analyse the conservative implications of nostalgia in the famous Dutch cabaret song ‘Het Dorp’ as well as the humorous deconstruction of nostalgia’s conservative politics in two recent parodies of this song. Dutch cabaret is a popular form of theatre comedy which might involve joke-telling, sketches and songs, and in which social ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Assemblages of care: Moral economies, classed labor, and affective exhaustion among Karachi's working middle‐class women

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how working middle‐class women in Karachi navigate the intersecting burdens of care and self‐care within the affective, infrastructural, and ideological conditions of urban precarity. Drawing on twelve semi‐structured interviews conducted across homes, workplaces, and cafés in the city, seven of which anchor the primary ...
Muhammad Huzaifa
wiley   +1 more source

Humor and conflict in the Global South

The European Journal of Humour Research
This special issue focusses on humour studies scholarship from and about the Global South. It addresses a critical gap of underrepresentation, as identified in a previous ISHS conference and explored in subsequent panels.
Diego Hoefel, João Paulo Capelotti, Rujuta Date   +2 more
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Gendered affective infrastructure: Feminist epistemology and mutual support in a life‐history storytelling group of older Mizrahi women

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article conceptualizes life history groups as gendered affective infrastructure: relational, temporal, and interactional formations through which affect circulates, gendered pain is collectively held, and mortality is acknowledged. Rather than producing linear individual narratives, knowledge emerges through shared emotions, silences ...
Tal Shamur
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Does humour need to be justified?: An inquiry on humour as political phenomenon

, 2021
Bu çalışma mizah için meşrulaştırma sorusunu irdeler. Yaşamın vazgeçilmez unsurlarından biri olarak mizah barındırdığı güç unsuru açısından politik bir olgu olarak ele alınmıştır. Tezin savı politik bir olgu olarak mizahın ayrımcılık ve nefreti kışkırtmadığı ya da ayrımcı ve nefret dolu bir biçimde gerçekleştirilmediği sürece meşrulaştırılabilir ...
openaire   +1 more source

Should multinationals care about development? Rethinking global strategy in an unequal world

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary While multinational corporations (MNCs) can profoundly shape global development trajectories, global strategy research has largely treated development as peripheral to core strategic concerns. This Perspective paper examines the contested relationship between global strategy and development, arguing that MNCs are neither ...
Marcus M. Larsen, Rajneesh Narula, Thomas DeBerge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Operating in perpetual motion? Coping with the dark side of global boundary spanning

Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper explores how individuals experience and cope with the demands of global boundary spanning in multinational enterprises (MNEs). We foreground temporary colocation as a modality through which mobile global boundary spanners repeatedly traverse multiple boundaries, triggering intense demands with adverse consequences ...
Kieran M. Conroy, Anthony McDonnell, Stefan Jooss   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reframing Technology and Ethics in Corneal Xenotransplantation: A Scoping Review of Standards and Safety in Ophthalmology

Health Care Science, EarlyView.
Bringing attention to the moral dilemmas raised by xenotransplantation and the continuous creation of standardized frameworks for donor technology and biosafety risk management, with a focus on striking a balance between patient safety, medical innovation, and ethical obligation.
Sankhajyoti Saha, Moubani Dutta, Agnihiya Bosu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emancipation as a Matter of Style: Humour and Eschatology in Eagleton and ŽiŽek

, 2013
This article will focus upon the relationship between humour, politics and theology. More precisely, it will inquire whether there is some kind of cor- relation between style of humour and political standpoint in two contem- porary Marxist authors that ...
Sigurdson, Ola,
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