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Dancing Ambiguity: Nora and the Politics of Cultural Nationalisation in Southern Thailand

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Nora, a traditional dance‐drama from southern Thailand, through its designation as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (2021) and the Thai government's recognition of its performers as National Artists (2018, 2021). It situates these actions within Thailand's cultural nationalisation.
Goeun Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Sedimentation fields as a method of saltmarsh restoration: Continuity of human influence on natural processes. [PDF]

Camb Prism Coast Futur
Dale J, Farrell M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

Girls and Women in Mines: an Invisible Path of Forced Labour in Italy. [PDF]

Med Lav
Salerno S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Speaking for Dionysus: Empathy and choral advocacy in Aristotle and Nietzsche

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay argues for an abiding connection between empathy and advocacy by revealing their unrecognized parallels in Aristotle and Nietzsche. The argument makes three new claims. First, I identify an ancient form of sharing emotions, unnamed in but fundamental to Aristotle's Rhetoric, that I call “empathy by analogy.” Next, I show that the ...
Ellwood Wiggins
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Popular health guides and their reception in Finland, 1890s-1970s. [PDF]

Med Hist
Virtanen I, Kananoja K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Waiting objects: letters as containers of time and care. [PDF]

Med Humanit
Catty J, Salisbury L.
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Consent and the Formation of Preferences

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Under ideal conditions, explicit consent and related actions usually change the moral facts in a distinctive way: they make something permissible that was previously impermissible. But they don't do this if the consent is coerced. And it seems they also don't do it if the preferences on which the consent is based were formed in particular ways:
Richard Pettigrew
wiley   +1 more source

Sediment addition to address tidal marsh elevation deficits caused by farm impoundments: a Delaware Bay, New Jersey, United States case study

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction Dredge material use is emerging as an important technique for restoring marshes threatened by historic mismanagement and sea‐level rise, yet optimal methods to maximize ecological benefit remain under development. The Delaware Estuary is in urgent need of restoration, as historic agricultural conversion caused substantial and ...
Stephanie Feigin, Joseph A. M. Smith, Steve Hafner, Theo Diehl, Aleksandr Modjeski, Tim Dillingham, Shane Godshall, Joanna Burger, Larry Niles   +8 more
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