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Grotesques and arabesques figurative language in the French decorative art of XVII-XVIII centuries

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2016
The article analyzes the imagery of grotesque and arabesque, which were an important primary source of ornamental language of French decorative arts in the XVII-XVIII centuries. Grotesque reproduced murals (fresco) of ancient buildings (caves) discovered
D G Tkach
doaj  

Indigenous Relational Thought and Climate Crisis Response: Rethinking Human‐Environment Relations Beyond Technocratic Governance

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change is frequently framed as a technical problem of emissions, risk, finance, adaptation planning, and institutional coordination. This critical integrative review, supported by scoping‐informed searching and transparent eligibility and synthesis procedures, examines how selected Indigenous relational literatures can deepen climate ...
Jacob Kwakye, Basin Nawai Sumaila
wiley   +1 more source

A corona-carnival? A carnivalesque interpretation of (im)mobilities under COVID-19 lockdowns. [PDF]

Politics (Oxf), 2023
Casas-Cortés M, Cobarrubias S.
europepmc   +1 more source

How Firms Construct Climate Identities in New Zealand: Resolving the Tensions Between Economic Imperatives and Climate Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on legitimacy theory, the aim of this study is to answer the research question: ‘How does corporate climate identity construction enable firms to make legitimacy claims while managing tensions between the economic imperatives and climate goals?’ The research design relies on a discourse analysis of 252 corporate reports published ...
Hang Pham
wiley   +1 more source

Aftermath of the Forest Carbon Credit Crisis as Experienced by Restoration and Conservation Organisations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2023, The Guardian reported on several scientific studies denouncing the role of certain forest carbon credits in mitigating climate change. Subsequently, credit prices on the voluntary carbon market (VCM) plummeted—providing a quantitative indication of its impact.
Benjamin S. Thompson, Sara Löfqvist, Felicia H. M. Liu, Jack L. Harris   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The classical and the grotesque in the work of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift [PDF]

This thesis takes Mikhail Bakhtin's definitions of the classical and the grotesque, uses various other theorists to problematise and extend these concepts through an engagement with gender categories, and applies them to the work of Alexander Pope and ...
Lawlor, Clark
core  

Smuggling Sovereignty: Trade, Transgression, and State Authority

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Global supply chains are saturated with transgressions—corruption, smuggling, document forgery, and other practices that blur the line between legality and illegality. States do not merely endure these practices; they actively shape the conditions for them, producing the very illegal systems they then claim to police.
Dejana Kostić
wiley   +1 more source

Framing novelty in crowdfunding: Which words win support, where, and at what stakes

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We examine how promotional language (“hype”) in reward‐based crowdfunding is associated with campaign success, and whether those associations vary across sector contexts and with campaign execution burden. Using dictionary‐based text measures from 635 U.S. Kickstarter campaigns across five sectors, we distinguish three novelty‐
Agnieszka Kwapisz
wiley   +1 more source

Dancing to multiple tunes: Establishing legitimacy with first‐time and repeat backers in crowdfunding campaigns

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Using 14,108 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns, we examine three strategies to gather support from first‐time versus repeat backers: narrative distinctiveness aligning with backers' expectations of novelty, endorsement from Kickstarter staff, and campaign leadership's reciprocity of funding other campaigns.
Stephanie Hepp, Alexander Vossen, Lien Denoo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal grammars of novelty: How carbon removal entrepreneurs frame new technologies

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This paper assesses the ways in which carbon dioxide removal ventures frame their work. Drawing on George Herbert Mead's philosophy of the present, it conceptualizes temporal grammars of novelty as a framing strategy that involves connecting two points in time, namely present and future, to elaborate novelty.
Ioana Sendroiu
wiley   +1 more source