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Behind the Appearances: Spaces and Places in Gerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982)
CrossroadsGerald Murnane’s The Plains (1982) depicts a world in which the landscape governs both the characters’ and the readers’ perceptions. Analyzing the novel’s duplicities and peculiarities, as well as the author’s individual approach to fiction writing, the
Mateusz Naporowski
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Alongside the rise of the evidence‐based conservation movement over the past 20 years, environmental education (EE) has emerged as a worthwhile strategy to achieve conservation goals. EE can help develop the societal attitudes, knowledge, skills, behaviours and norms that address conservation and environmental challenges and build deeper ...
Nicole M. Ardoin +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Stimuli that resemble humans, but are not perfectly human-like, are disliked compared to distinctly human and nonhuman stimuli. Accounts of this Uncanny Valley effect often focus on how changes in human resemblance can evoke different emotional responses.
Anne E. Ferrey +2 more
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Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
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Transitioning to Higher Education: A Case Study of an Individual With Autism
Psychology in the Schools, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Necessary arrangements should be made to enable university students with autism (the term “autism” is used to refer to the entire autism spectrum in this study) to improve their transition to university. The need for support may be higher in countries like Türkiye, where the number of university students with autism is relatively low, as ...
Mahmut Serkan Yazıcı +2 more
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Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2014 Does a fantastic form in exist in experimental theatre? This essay starts from the Freudian concept of Das Unheimliche to analyze the latest considerations suggested by literary critics. The argument derives from a multidisciplinary perspective including
Monica Cristini
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, 2009 Queer’s not just a queer word but belongs, if it belongs, to a queer time.i would like to think of that sentence as a tiny installation, a snow-flake of sound, around which one might take one or more queerturns, or sketch a few queer footnotes. There is, perhaps, a queertheory of the First sentence.
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Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Discourses of energy and energy transition have become increasingly prevalent in informal and formal learning spaces. Energy transitions differ across regions, contexts, and technologies. The contextual nature of energy is an opportunity for a sociotechnical approach to its study.
Desen S. Özkan +2 more
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A Short Essay on Monsters, Birds, and Sounds of the Uncanny
Semiotic Review, 2016 The crux of this essay is that birdsong—something generally thought of a pleasing and enjoyable—can function, in certain contexts, as an indexical sign of the presence of evil in the world. I narratively contrast notions of the unknown as eerie with the
Yasmine Musharbash
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