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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Rewording the World: Poststructuralism, Deconstruction and the ‘Real’ in Environmental Education
In this paper we question the desirability of the near-schism between (on the one hand) environmental philosophers, advocates and educators who appear to be antagonistic to, and/or dismissive of, poststructuralism and deconstruction and (on the other ...
Noel Gough, Leigh Price
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Seeing Through One: Kollmar-Paulenz’s Contributions to the Mongolian and Global Study of Religion(s)
The paper discusses the works by Professor Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz on Mongolian shamanism and Buddhism, embedded within the concept of a global history of religion.
Piotr Sobkowiak
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ABSTRACT This paper responds to two politically charged reactions to my scholarship on peace and global citizenship education (GCE): the censorship of a UNESCO Beijing conference presentation in Seoul (August 2025) and a confrontational exchange with a Chinese postgraduate student in New Zealand.
Kevin Kester
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Poststructuralism has influenced novelistic creations along the last forty years, in such a way that novels are changing their linear structure. I would like to describe the importance of some fundamental points of poststructuralism in the structure of ...
Álvaro Llosa Sanz
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Armanda Guiducci e la teoria critica del marxismo: donne, lavoro, corpi e nomadismo [PDF]
The becoming-woman, brought about by the post-structuralist hypothesis as it is configured in the debate of Italian feminism, and beyond, of the 1970s, is a political, philosophical, social issue of power and the unpolitical space of the feminine ...
Stefania Mazzone
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Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance
Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
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Fraying the Edges of Literacies: What Do Post‐Philosophies Produce for Early Childhood Literacies?
Paper skateboard park and worms' house; is it literacy? We invite a discussion on how post‐philosophies have, and could, open up possibilities for thinking about early literacies. By fraying the edges of certainty and legitimacy around what counts as literacy and who is viewed as literate (according to humanist logics), post‐philosophical concepts ...
Abigail Hackett, Candace R. Kuby
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The production of space and the exploitation of attention: a view from/of poststructuralism
The article analyzes the possibilities of applying the methodology of poststructuralism in modern sociology, in particular in relation to the problems of space production and the exploitation of attention. The heuristic potential of poststructuralism for
Alexander Golikov, Vladislav Tyaglo
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Against ‘No Debate!’ in the University
Abstract For many decades now there has been pressure on universities as institutions and on university academics to take a stance on culture war topics. One of the latest pressures relates to trans rights—to use institutional mechanisms to enforce the orthodoxy that trans people are what they identify as and should have access to any provisions ...
Holly Lawford‐Smith
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