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Tropes

The Cambridge History of Medieval Music, 2018
A. Haug
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Representations of gender and race in Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther: disrupting Hollywood tropes

, 2021
Dozens of superhero films have been produced to date, yet their narratives tend to marginalize characters of color and offer stereotypical representations of masculinity and femininity. Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther places people of color at the center of
Claudia Bucciferro
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Drugs and drug wars as populist tropes in Asia: Illustrative examples and implications for drug policy.

The International journal on drug policy, 2020
BACKGROUND The Philippines may be the face of today's 'drug wars', but its experience is by no means exceptional - as the contemporary examples of Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka show.
G. Lasco
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Celebrity Humanitarianism: Using Tropes of Engagement to Understand North/South Relations

Perspectives on Politics, 2020
Celebrity humanitarianism has been transformed in its scope, scale, and organization in the last thirty years. Its flourishing has generated considerable academic interest from a wide variety of disciplines that share two characteristics.
L. Richey, D. Brockington
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Futurelessness, migration, or a lucky break: narrative tropes of the ‘blocked future’ among Serbian high school students

Journal of Youth Studies, 2020
This article uses ethnographic discourse analysis to understand how Serbian high school students at ‘Belgrade Professional’ (BP) respond to coursework and discussions about their individual futures.
Tanja Anđić
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The ‘African gangs’ narrative: associating Blackness with criminality and other anti-Black racist tropes in Australia

African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, 2018
This article explores and theorizes anti-Black racist discourses that shape the ways in which the Australian media and other mainstream Australian institutions talk about and view Black Africans.
Mandisi Majavu
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‘Data found us’: A critique of some new materialist tropes in educational research

Research in education (Manchester), 2018
New materialist and posthuman research methodologies are quickly gaining traction in educational research. According to its proponents, new materialism takes us to radically new places of praxis as it reconfigures central notions such as data, researcher
E. B. Petersen
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The Ludic Bestiary: Misogynistic Tropes of Female Monstrosity in Dungeons & Dragons

Games Cult., 2019
This article introduces the concept of the ludic bestiary, a game mechanic that the authors argue produces abject bodies. Using the “hag” in Dungeons & Dragons as a case study, the authors demonstrate how the game’s bestiary, the Monster Manual ...
Sarah Stang, Aaron Trammell
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THE TROPING HYPOTHESIS

The Musical Quarterly, 1966
The most valuable thing Jacques Handschin taught us was to mistrust our own systems. By instinct he dug out the exceptions, the anomalies, the cases that just did not fit. By instinct he provided each explanation with its antinomy, each potential system with an antidote.
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Of turning and tropes

Figures of Entanglement, 2016
The “turn” (linguistic turn, critical turn, new material turn, etc.) is a prominent concept in the production of rhetoric’s intellectual history. This essay argues that academic turns are commonly figured through tropes of classical physics that portray ...
D. Keeling
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