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Craft in an age of creativity: disengagement as a new mode of craftsmanship among traditional potters in Japan

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Abstract Embedded within Japan's demographic and economic stagnation, traditional craftsmanship unexpectedly aligns with the discourse of creativity. This study delves into the intricacies of this convergence through ethnographic details, shedding light on how endeavours to preserve local crafts intertwine with the burgeoning discourse of creativity ...
Shilla Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Deceptive Sex: Rethinking Consent from the Gender Margins

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article argues that trans people who choose not to disclose, or who lie about, their gender history prior to sexual intimacy should not be prosecuted for sexual offences, at least not in the absence of a clear and express condition pertaining to cis status or biological sex.
Alex Sharpe
wiley   +1 more source

Lord Chesterfield and Elizabeth du Bouchet: New Light on an Eighteenth‐Century Liaison

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Almost no trace has survived of the life of Elizabeth du Bouchet after she moved from The Hague to London and gave birth to Philip Stanhope, the illegitimate son of Philip Dormer Stanhope, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, in 1732. Thirty‐three unpublished letters in the archive of the Chevening Estate, now at the Kent History and Library Centre ...
Richard Wendorf
wiley   +1 more source

A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
wiley   +1 more source

“Build the New City as Fast as Possible”: Speculation as Subsistence in Peri‐Urban Myanmar

open access: yesAntipode, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines an ambitious plan to construct a built‐from‐scratch new city outside Yangon, Myanmar and sheds light on the contradictory responses sparked by rapid urban expansion. Despite fears that this megaproject would threaten the region's way of life, hopes for the new city's construction remained high throughout the project's ...
Courtney T. Wittekind
wiley   +1 more source

Choroidal changes and association with Gaussian curvature in high myopic eyes with posterior staphyloma in ultra‐wide‐field optical coherence tomography angiography

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To evaluate choroidal changes in high myopic (HM) patients with posterior staphyloma (PS) and explore their association with Gaussian curvature (K) using ultra‐wide‐field optical coherence tomography angiography (UWF‐OCTA). Methods HM patients with wide macular PS (Type I PS) and without any PS (control) were recruited.
Qing Zhao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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