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Singing in a new world: Scotland - hopeless schizophrenic or cosmopolitan post nation? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Rival views of Scotland at the beginning of the twenty-first century see the nation as either, hopelessly schizophrenic, mired in its own bedevilled tartanry and forever salvaging the present through historic erasure or as a cosmopolitan postnation at ...
Farrell, M.
core  

Making care audible: Musical gifts and affective reciprocity in the clinic

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In clinical settings, music therapy is frequently received as a gift—a voluntary offering that invites but does not demand participation. Drawing on ethnographic research with music therapists and patients in Canadian and American hospitals, this article examines how clinical care is co‐constituted through practices of giving, receiving, and ...
Meredith Evans
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a Typology of Korean Women Leaders' Resistance to Their Token Status in the Workplace

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite remarkable economic development in South Korea (Korea), there are only a few women leaders, and they face challenges in the gendered workplace where organizational constraints and traditional values coexist. In a reanalysis of narratives of Korean women leaders (KWLs), using an ideal‐type analysis as a novel qualitative research method,
Yonjoo Cho   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Humour versus dignity in the public sphere

open access: yesThe European Journal of Humour Research
Dignity is an important—perhaps even essential—aspect of a functioning public sphere: one where citizens can meet each other as equals and respectful antagonists in the exchange of different perspectives and reasoned opinions.
Nicholas Holm
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and humour; Complexities of women's image politics in Shona humourous narratives

open access: yes, 2017
Humour represents an ideal site for understanding how everyday social dynamics influence ideology and the social structure (Sue & Golash-Boza, 2013:4). This research is an examination of how gender is expressed in Shona humour. Particular emphasis is paid to how women are presented in Shona humorous narratives.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Disquiet of Quiet Quitting: Definitional Clarity, Theoretical Pathways, and Future Research

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Quiet quitting (QQ) has emerged as a prominent topic in both popular press and academic research, reflecting shifts in employees' engagement, effort allocation, and responses to contemporary work pressures. This review synthesizes findings from 11 papers published in a recent Special Issue on The Disquiet of Quiet Quitting.
Solon Magrizos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

ESG Performance and Credit Risk: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturing Companies

open access: yesInternational Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on credit risk using a sample of manufacturing firms listed on China's Shanghai and Shenzhen A‐share markets from 2009 to 2021. Employing fixed effects, the generalised method of moments, and instrumental variable models, we find that ...
Yanan Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political Humour in Derry Girls [PDF]

open access: yes
This thesis investigates the role of political humour in Derry Girls, a sitcom created and written by Lisa McGee and set in Northern Ireland during the final years of the Troubles. While the series primarily follows the everyday lives of five teenagers, its humour repeatedly intersects with the political and cultural realities of 1990s Derry.
openaire  

Soft Power in Trade: Quantifying the Impact of Confucius Institutes on China's Exports

open access: yesInternational Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the role of Confucius Institutes (CIs) as a form of China's cultural diplomacy and their impact on international trade, particularly exports. Using a gravity model, we analyze data from 1990 to 2019 across countries, finding that the presence of CIs significantly boosts China's exports.
Renjing Chen, Wei Jin, Tangrui Yang
wiley   +1 more source

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