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Discourse of Power and Criticism of Consumerism in D. Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas”

open access: yesPitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva, 2017
In the paper, the specific narrative structure of the novel “Cloud Atlas” has been analyzed. The array of philosophical questions that determine the post-postmodern literature has been outlined.
Dmytro Drozdovskyi
doaj  

The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law

open access: yesJCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islam di antara Modernisme dan Posmodernisme

open access: yesReligió: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama, 2016
Analyzing over modernism and postmodernism depict that both terms are conceived as a period or the phase of civilization that runs synchronically in one side and diachronic in other side.
Sutikno Sutikno
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Beyond 9/11: Poetics of Transcultural Agency in Contemporary Ethnic American Poetry

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2011
In a post-postmodern world void of exclusive identities, limited localities or hindering cultural borders, and in a period of rapid globalization, massive flows of transmigration, and increasing creation of multinationals, the future of mankind should be
Mavy Elhayawi
doaj   +1 more source

The Kichwa of Sarayaku Case at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights: Legal Pluralism, Identity and Citizenship in a Context of Extractivism

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the tension between a universal approach to law and the recognition of indigenous peoples' rights at the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights. The struggle for citizenship in a situation of extractivism and land dispossession demonstrates how identity is mobilized to obtain and attribute rights. The focus of this study is
Elisabeth Cunin
wiley   +1 more source

Posthumanism and Cybernetic Art: An Esthetic Exploration of Technology and Human Identity

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Posthumanism is a contemporary intellectual movement that redefines the relationship between humans, technology, biology, and culture. While questioning the traditional humanist perspective that places humans at the center of the universe, it also examines the transformative effects of technology on human identity.
Evren Kavukcu
wiley   +1 more source

Post-pedagogical Syndrome of the Digimodernism Age

open access: yesВысшее образование в России, 2019
The article discusses the influence of Metamodern culture and digitalization of education on the transformation of the pedagogical understanding of learning process. The author relies on the post-postmodern age interpretations presented in the works of S.
I. A. Kolesnikova
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“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
wiley   +1 more source

(De)Legitimizing Language Policing: Enregisterment and Linguistic Authority in Taiwan's Digital Public

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how ordinary Taiwanese netizens perform linguistic authority by policing others’ use of Mainland Chinese expressions in everyday online interactions not originally intended to be political and how such policing is subsequently supported, resisted, or (de)legitimized in the context of Taiwan–China relations. Three orders
Hsi‐Yao Su
wiley   +1 more source

New Realities of the Contemporary Novel [PDF]

open access: yesCultural Intertexts, 2015
The aim of the present paper is to introduce some of the latest developments in the contemporary novel. In order to attain our goal, we shall proceed to firstly survey the cultural background, namely the (post)postmodernist period, then some tendencies
Ofelia AL-GAREEB
doaj  

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