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Witnessing Deconstruction in Education: Why Quasi-Transcendentalism Matters

, 2009
Deconstruction is often depicted as a method of critical analysis aimed at exposing unquestioned metaphysical assumptions and internal contradictions in philosophical and literary language.
Biesta, Gert,, GERT BIESTA, Biesta, G J J, BIESTA, Gert   +3 more
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The reckoning: ethnographic explorations of the ending of a friendship Règlement de comptes : explorations ethnographiques de la fin d'une amitié

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article examines the ending of a friendship in ethnographic fieldwork. I argue that friendship is a necessarily ambiguous concept and relation, made most distinctive as a ‘friendship’ at its end. Reflecting on a friendship that was ended between this author and an old friend in fieldwork in Halleigh, North Manchester, England, I discuss the ...
Katherine Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Conventions as mediation for creative interaction between contemporary theatre art and applied practices of theatre

Education in the North
This essay explores the potential mutual influences between educational/applied theatre and contemporary theatre in terms of convention, questioning the current disconnection between them in reality.
Shiu Hei Larry Ng
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling ‘letting go’ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference

Meditative experience has long been associated with conceptual attenuation, reduced reactivity to phenomena, increased present moment perception and more pleasant experience.
Shawn Prest
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Reimagining Book History Creatively for Twenty‐First‐Century Publishing Students

History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Teaching book history to twenty‐first‐century publishing students often proves a delightful challenge as some grapple with appreciating how this history is relevant to not only their pursuit of a career in the publishing industry but also the publishing industry generally.
Jocelyn Hargrave
wiley   +1 more source

THE ANALOG CITY: Maintaining Everyday Life Through Repair and Jugaad

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban scholarship consistently discusses improvisation and heterogeneity as central to urban life in the global South. In this article, I bring together scholarship on urban improvisation and the digital world of smart cities to understand the city as analog.
Julia Corwin
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Biyi Bandele’s Half of a Yellow Sun and the Postcolonial Discourse on Nigeria’s Civil War Experience

CINEJ Cinema Journal
Nollywood films have been responding to critical sociological, historical and national issues militating against sustainable national cohesion and unity.
Shouket Ahmad Tilwani, Azeez Akinwumi Sesan   +1 more
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TWO CONCEPTS OF POLARIZATION: Urban–National Tension and its Effects on the Liberal Trajectory of Cities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how urban–national polarization shapes how progressive cities exercise local autonomy. It introduces a new framework for assessing polarization within specific policy domains, distinguishing between ideological and pragmatic polarization.
Harel Nachmany, Tal Alster, Nufar Avni
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New Historicism: Text and Context

Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2015
During most of the twentieth century history was seen as a phenomenon outside of literature that guaranteed the veracity of literary interpretation. History was unique and it functioned as a basis for reading literary works.
Violeta M. Vesić
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