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VISUAL NEGOTIATIONS OF GENTRIFICATION IN TORONTO: Contestation, Politicization and Resistance through Urban Signage

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The future orientation of culture and the memory of the past in the making of history

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2017
The article describes the semiotic approach developed by Boris Uspenskij to study the historical process. Uspenskij’s semiotics of history is integrally bound with the Tartu-Moscow School’s programme of cultural semiotics and is rooted in the fundamental
Elżbieta Hałas
doaj   +1 more source

Conceptualising Food as Death: A Radical Environmentalist Politics of Food [PDF]

open access: yes
Research into the politics of food cannot assume universal acceptance of what is meant by the term \'food\' which has multiple meanings and significantly different associations. A semiotic approach demonstrates the meaning and value of this point.
Julie van Kemenade
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Cognitive Semiotics and On-Line Reading of Religious Texts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
In this essay a hermeneutic model of the higher level understanding during on-line ritual reading by devotees of their respective sacred literatures is proposed, using the instruments provided by cognitive sciences.
Evola, Vito
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

QUANDO AS ROUPAS FALAM: DEBATE SOBRE A MODA COMO UMA FORMA DE LINGUAGEM

open access: yesPrâksis, 2017
Este artigo pretende debater sobre as relações possíveis entre a moda como manifestação cultural e consequentemente uma forma de linguagem, possibilitando ser analisada por meio da semiótica.
Carlos Augusto Reinke
doaj   +1 more source

Semiotics, Analogical Legal Reasoning, and the Cf. Citation: Getting Our Signals Uncrossed [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The Bluebook\u27s introductory citation signals are essential to effective legal discourse. The choice of signal can influence not only the interpretation of cited cases, but also the path of the law.
Robbins, Ira P.
core   +3 more sources

Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent research indicates that state reforms in East and Southeast Asia have been predominantly top‐down and authoritarian‐led. However, this significant observation implicitly relies on important assumptions about authoritarian decision‐making behavior and psychology that remains understudied.
Eugene Yu Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an understanding of corporate web identity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
No abstract ...
Elliott, C., Robinson, S.
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Disrupting Students' Learning Habitus: A Digitalized University Didactic Setting in Teacher Training

open access: yes
New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
Gudrun Marci‐Boehncke   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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