Forming a K-Pop Public: An Analysis of Weibo Yingxiaohaos in BOYNEXTDOOR Incident
Emerging MediaOn March 28, 2025, BOYNEXTDOOR released a statement cancelling their concert scheduled for the following day due to an earthquake in Thailand, triggered by the Myanmar earthquake.
Ling Lei
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Economies of signs in writing for academic publication: the case of English Medium “National” Journals [PDF]
, 2012 The centrality of publishing in academic journals to academic knowledge work globally is largely taken as a given. Publishing is a defining aspect of scholars’ labour in the academic world, tied to both current and possible future material conditions in ...
Lillis, Theresa
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Musical Influence on Apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement
, 2014 Black South Africans and African Americans not only share similar identities, but also share similar historical struggles. Apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement were two movements on two separate continents in which black South Africans and African ...
Power, Katherine D.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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A figurational approach to soft power and sport events. The case of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. [PDF]
Front Sports Act Living, 2023 Næss HE.
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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A “theoretical double”: violence, religion and social order in Schmitt and Girard [PDF]
, 2016 The contribution aims to compare Girard’s cultural anthropology with Schmitt’s political theory. Conceptual support for a parallel reading can be found in the key concepts and the social perspective shared by the two authors.
Salvatore, Andrea
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Sahara or Sahel? The fuzzy geography of terrorism in West Africa [PDF]
Since the mid-2000s, terrorism has pushed the peripheries of West Africa into the news and the public eye. While the political implications of this phenomenon have been extensively documented, most commentators have adopted a zonal approach to terrorism ...
RETAILLE Denis, WALTHER Olivier
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