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Le mythe cosmogonique de Pangu

open access: yesCarnets, 2018
Noting the key role that desire holds in the human condition, Girard believes that, in human relationships, there is an imitative character of desire. It is therefore possible to draw a mimetic triangle, with subject, object, model on its vertices.
João Marcelo Mesquita Martins
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Germany as Scapegoat. CEPS Commentary, 10 December 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Germany has been an attractive target for external-deficit countries in Europe and beyond, but beating up on Germany alone appears to be the wrong way to get results.
Gros, Daniel.
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‘Literal torture’: Vulnerability, resilience and young people's experiences of pressure in physical education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper combines vulnerability and resilience theory to explore the pressure young people experience in Physical Education (PE) and sport at secondary school. The theoretical framework was used to understand both how young people experience PE in school and how vulnerability and resilience function interdependently in social contexts like ...
David Littlefair, Michael Jopling
wiley   +1 more source

Just war theory and scapegoat mechanism: An analysis of missio Dei and social order

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article examined Augustine’s just war theory through René Girard’s scapegoat mechanism, as posited in his theory of mimetic desire. Augustine, in his development of just war theory, adopted a realist approach to justify the ethical criteria for ...
Godfrey T. Baleng
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Love and “Suffering for”: A Shia Perspective on Rene Girard’s Theory on Violence and the Sacred [PDF]

open access: yesReligious Inquiries, 2017
When we know and recognize one another, our souls join with those of others. This is called ta’aruf in the parlance of the Qur’an. Ta’aruf increases love and unity, as it decreases violence and enmity. Knowing one another occurs in several ways.
Habibollah Babaei
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Le paradigme du bouc émissaire chez Maupassant : une démythification narrative

open access: yesCarnets, 2019
The way we look at the other determines our conception of the scapegoat. Whether it becomes the whipping boy or the pet peeve, it’s nothing but a solution to societal difficulties by which injustice and violence are the last springs.
Diane Aymard Obono  Oyono
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‘They just want the perfect kids on show’: The illegal exclusion of children with special educational needs and disabilities from primary schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Guidance from the Department for Education stipulates that permanent exclusions should only be used as a last resort and where there is potential for harm to come to anyone in the school setting. Suspensions are positioned as a tool to communicate to a pupil that their behaviour is in breach of the school's behaviour policy.
Megan Whitehouse
wiley   +1 more source

Liminaliteit en identiteit in de romans van Tommy Wieringa Joe Speedboot, Caesarion en Dit zijn de namen

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2019
Tommy Wieringa (1967) is one of the most prominent contemporary Dutch novelists. His three most famous novels – Joe Speedboat, Caesarion and Dit zijn de namen depict different aspects of liminal identity.
Sonya Dimitrova
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Navigating Workplace Bullying: A Critical Theory Exploration of Lecturers' Experiences in a Higher Education Context

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Workplace bullying (WB) remains a pervasive concern across all sectors, including higher education institutions (HEIs), where shifting power dynamics, performance pressures, and transformation mandates often create fertile ground for systemic abuse.
Helen Meyer
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

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