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Race in the Metabolic Rift: The Metaphor and Materiality of Whiteness

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1846-1871, September 2025.
Abstract If metabolic rifts are ruptures, chasms, or divisions, what happens inside them? Shifting attention from multi‐scalar socio‐ecological and corporeal metabolisms towards the internal dynamics of rupture, this paper returns to the origins of metabolic thought to see what happens at the bottom of these clefts within nature.
Archie Davies
wiley   +1 more source

Myth and Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 1964
The word myth appears frequently in contemporary theological and exegetical writing. Unfortunately, it is used with a variety of meanings by different authors, and this gives rise to the layman's general misunderstanding of what is really a technical ...
Forsman, Rodger
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"Hispania, la leyenda": The Myth of Viriatus’ Struggle Transfigured for Television

open access: yesCommunication & Society (Formerly Comunicación y Sociedad), 2013
“Hispania, la leyenda” is the first Spanish attempt to represent on screen the Roman occupation of the Iberian Peninsula and the resistance led by Viriatus.
Elena Cueto-Asín, David R. George Jr,
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Stavropol Kalmyks in the Swedish Campaign and on Russia’s Western Borders, 1790–1792

open access: yesOriental Studies
Introduction. In 1790–1792, Stavropol Kalmyk Host participated in the Russo-Swedish War and patrolled the Belarusian border. The reasons behind the long deployment remain somewhat debatable. Materials and methods.
Ramil N. Rakhimov
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Sacred to the Memory: Relicization and the Cataloging of Franklin Expedition Objects in Museums

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 48, Issue 2, Fall 2025.
ABSTRACT Between 1818 and 1845, the British Navy sent expeditions to Inuit Nunangat (Canadian Arctic) in search of a passage from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. In 1845, the Franklin Expedition, consisting of 129 officers, crew, and marines, ended in disaster with all 129 lives lost.
Ashley Smith
wiley   +1 more source

The significance of myth for curriculum development [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
This dissertation explores the question of whether myth represents a kind of knowledge and a way of knowing useful to children at particular stages of development.
Stohler, Sara McClendon   +1 more
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Napoleonic Neglect: The Case for Excavating French Theatre of the First Empire

open access: yes, 2014
The team all gave papers at a curated panel of the International Federation for theatre research world congress which was held at Warwick, July 2014. Professor Jan Clarke chaired the session which was entitled: Napoleonic Neglect: The Case for Excavating
Katherine Astbury
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 591-605, July 2025.
Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
wiley   +1 more source

Between Memory and History: Political Uses of the Napoleonic Past in France, 1815-1840 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This dissertation examines the political uses of historical memory in France between 1815 and 1848 through the lens of the Napoleonic myth. Reflections on the recent Napoleonic past permeated opposition discourse throughout the Restoration despite the ...
Naujoks, Natasha S.
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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
wiley   +1 more source

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