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A practical theology of liberation: Mimetic theory, liberation theology and practical theology
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 In this article, the authors bring two personal journeys together: one author’s liberationist journey, sparked by a search for justice and liberation in the slums of Guatemala City, and the other’s lifelong commitment to practical theology and spatial ...
Joel D. Aguilar Ramírez +1 more
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Nurses’ Perceptions of Horizontal Violence [PDF]
, 2016 In this article, I describe a study exploring horizontal violence and nurses’ perceptions of the phenomenon within the context of two 28-bed inpatient hospital units. The purpose of the study was to develop a clearer understanding of horizontal violence,
Taylor, Rosemary A.
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Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Holocaust Literature
Humanities, 2019 Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery„ has been notorious since its first publication in 1948, but rarely, if ever, has it been read in light of its immediate historical context.
Michael Robinson
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Cahiers du MIMMOC, 2018 This article analyses the nature of assistance networks for slave refugees absconding from Texas to the Mexican border between 1836 and 1861. It argues that, by contrast with the more densely organized Underground Railroad that connected the US South to ...
Thomas Mareite
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PrEP, Pharmakon, and Ambivalence in the Era of Nordic HIV Prevention
Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2023 Using Derrida's notion of pharmakon (again from Plato), I want to bring attention to how we can utilize the notion of pharmakon as an analytical device for thinking about the entanglements between pharmaceuticals, and historical HIV narratives, and the ...
Tony Sandset
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Anti-Semitism in Poland and Ukraine: The Belief in Jewish Control as a Mechanism of Scapegoating
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2010 <div>Systemic transition in post-communist Eastern Europe resulted in high inflation, rapid economic changes, and increased lack of control in everyday life.
Michal Bilewicz, Ireneusz Krzeminski
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Mimetic Mechanisms and Indigenous Vulnerability in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
Altre Modernità, 2022 This article investigates Alexis Wright’s novel Carpentaria (2006) through the lens of the mimetic theory developed by René Girard, which I combined with Jean Price-Mars’ definition of “collective bovarism” and Umberto Eco’s narrative semiotics.
Valérie Tosi
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Corporate Downsizing to Rebuild Team Spirit: How Costly Voting Can Foster Cooperation [PDF]
, 2007 We propose a new mechanism to achieve coordination through voting, for which we discuss a number of real-life applications. Among them, the mechanism provides for a new theory for downsizing in organizations.
Cabrales, Antonio +1 more
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Les conflits à l’heure de la COVID-19
Revue Internationale de Politique de Développement, 2020 This chapter discusses the potential impacts of the spread of COVID-19, and the restriction policies that it has triggered in many countries, on conflict incidence worldwide.
Nicolas Berman +3 more
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The time of the Roma in times of crisis: Where has European neoliberal capitalism failed? [PDF]
, 2016 This paper argues that the economic and financial crisis that has ensnared Europe from the late 2000s has been instrumental in reshaping employment and social relations in a detrimental way for the majority of the European people.
Bauman Z +30 more
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