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Streaming diplomacy and the evolution of Hindi cinema: from Bollywood to digital narratives
Frontiers in CommunicationHindi cinema and Hindi-language television have historically occupied a significant position within Indian media culture, shaping national imaginaries and circulating India’s cultural soft power through theatrical exhibition and broadcast television ...
Kanika K. Arya, Manish Verma
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VOICES OF WOMEN FROM THE FAVELAS
Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, 2021 This essay intends to make readers listen to the voices of women from the Maré favela complex located in Rio de Janeiro. We cross-referenced data from “Mapa social do corona”, a bulletin produced by Observatório de Favelas with reports on the everyday ...
Angélica Ferrarez
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(Post)Colonial Worlds. Considerations about Race, Gender and Sex, Subjectivity and Temporality
Scienza & Politica, 2013 Starting from a comparison with post-colonial studies, the essay focuses on the importance of activating a South/South dialogue in order to analyze both the genealogies and legacies of colonialism and the violent tensions that cross the contemporary ...
Karina Bidaseca
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You've Got to Be Real: Authenticity, Performativity and Micro-Celebrity in South Africa
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 For many young black South African women, the competitive arena of social media offers access to significant social and cultural capital, which can be invaluable in the unequal context in which they live.
Callan Dunn, Nicky Falkof
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
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Quantifying the Sites of Government, Commercial, and Personal Systems‐Perpetrated Financial Abuse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explores the institutional systems through which post‐separation financial abuse is perpetrated. While existing measures seek to quantify the harms experienced by women post‐separation, this study draws on financial, welfare and legal service casefiles to identify where such harms occur. Drawing on 76 de‐identified Victorian service
Kay Cook +3 more
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Vampires and School Girls: High School Jinks on the Hellmouth [PDF]
Slayage, 2001 Buffy The Vampire Slayer treads an entertaining if uneasy course between conservatism and contemporary feminist girl power. On the one hand the weekly successful tackling of monsters emerging from the hell mouth denotes a conservative underwriting of the
Gina Wisker
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Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and PoliticsEditorial: General Issue with a special focus on Post-Secular ...
Sarala Krishnamurthy +2 more
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Cross-dressing in the Iranian cinema: A poststructuralist approach [PDF]
زن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2017 "Cross-dressing" defined as the concept of wearing female dresses by men, and male dresses by women, entered the plots of movies from the early ages of the emergence of cinema, and has still survived.
Behrouz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari +1 more
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