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Work included in a group exhibition at Charlie Smith Gallery, London curated by Juan Bolivar and John Stark. Exhibting artists include: Juan Bolivar, Dan Coombs, Graham Crowley, Karen David, Nathan Eastwood, Geraint Evans, John Greenwood, Sigrid Holmwood,
Bolivar, Juan, Stark, John
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Complex realism, applied social science and postdisciplinarity: a critical assessment of the work of David Byrne [PDF]
In this review essay I offer a critical assessment of the work of David Byrne, an applied social scientist who is one of the leading advocates of the use of complexity theory in the social sciences and who has drawn on the principles of critical realism ...
Holland, D
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A new book by Manuel DeLanda and Graham Harman, The Rise of Realism, is reviewed. The Rise of Realism is an introductory text that aims to clarify the difficulties that surround the philosophical concepts of realism and materialism (as well as their ...
Umbrello, Steven
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Developing agency in a writing centre context : a Social Realist interpretation
The aim of this article is to explore how aspects of a Social Realist theoretical framework could be understood in relation to my professional development as a writing centre consultant and manager.
Slemming, Fatima
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An Analysis of Semantic Waves: Maton’s Legitimation Code Theory for Cumulative Knowledge-Building
This paper aims to state that knowledge blindness in educational research has severe obstacles to understanding knowledge development. Karl Maton offers sociological concepts of Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) - 'semantic gravity' and 'semantic density' –
Yolanda Ramadhan
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Mozart plays the intermediary between three picture books by Maurice Sendak: Outside Over There, Dear Mili, and We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy, in which Mozart is explicitly depicted. This article focuses on the last two works of this trilogy,
Gaëlle Levesque
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Human security and the rise of the social [PDF]
As the concept of human security has become part of the mainstream discourse of international politics it should be no surprise that both realist and critical approaches to international theory have found the agenda wanting.
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‘‘The provocation is titillating.’’ Sven Wernström in Iceland
The article discusses the reception and impact of Sven Wernström’s views and works in Iceland. In particular, it retraces the controversy which surrounded the 1978 translation of his book Kamrat Jesus (1971) and recounts the heated debate over the book ...
Olga Holownia
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On how to achieve reference to covert social constructions [PDF]
What does it mean to say that some features, such as gender, race and sexual orientation, are socially constructed? Many scholars claim that social constructionism about a kind is a version of realism about that kind, according to which the corresponding
Diaz-Leon, Esa
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What's the matter with realism? [PDF]
International relations, as an academic discipline, is not known for its strength in the area of theory. It has no immediate equivalent to the rich contrasts of perspective generated in sociology by the legacy of Max Weber, Marx and Durkheim—a lack so ...
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