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Digital play and the actualisation of the consumer imagination [PDF]
, 2007 In this article, the authors consider emerging consumer practices in digital virtual spaces. Building on constructions of consumer behavior as both a sense-making activity and a resource for the construction of daydreams, as well as anthropological ...
Denegri-Knott, Janice, Molesworth, Mike
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Norman and Nietzsche: The Political Project of Lindsay's The Magic Pudding
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Australian artist and writer Norman Lindsay (1879–1969) wrote 11 novels and two children's books, one of which—The Magic Pudding first published in 1918—remains a national classic. This article argues that readers and critics have long misunderstood Lindsay's intention in writing this lengthy cartoon‐story about the adventures of Bunyip Bluegum in ...
John Uhr
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Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 47 (09) 1994 [PDF]
, 1994 published or submitted for ...
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Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60‐plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately‐owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology.
Kelsey D. Grubbs
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WhateverUsing Seanan McGuire’s October “Toby” Daye urban fantasy series as a case study, this essay examines the kinship legacies crafted by the supernatural women of the medieval Arthurian romance tradition as they are perpetuated and reclaimed by female ...
Eyan Birt
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VertigO, 2018 With the proliferation of urban agriculture operations the city is more gardened and more fertile. These operations usually take up ground spaces spared by artificialization. Some, more strangely, seize new ground in the basement or on the roofs.
Olivier Bories +2 more
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CANNIBAL CITIES: MONSTROUS URBAN BODIES IN CONTEMPORARY FANTASY
REDISCO – Revista Eletrônica de Estudos do Discurso e do Corpo, 1970 This paper discusses the literalization of the metaphor of the body politic in contemporary urban fantasy. The body politic is one of the master tropes through which urban experience has been traditionally represented in literature, political discourse, and social studies.
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Area, EarlyView.Short Abstract This paper explores the ethical and creative value of composite fiction as a method for engaging with vulnerable participants in health geography research. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Port Talbot, South Wales, it examines how composite fiction can allow for co‐creation, to challenge authorial authority, support the ethical ...
Rosie Knowles
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Revue des études slaves, 2015 This essay discusses the poetics of ‘aggressive localism’ and ‘local globalism’ in literary works by Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk, Czech author Jáchym Topol, and Slovak author Jana Beňová. All three of them reflect on the revolutions of 1989 in East and
Alfrun Kliems
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Städtische Lebenswelten in Bewegung: In Afrika und darüber hinaus [PDF]
, 2010 Although throughout the history of anthropology the ethnography of urban societies was never an important topic, investigations on cities in Africa contributed to the early theoretical development of urban studies in social sciences.
Hahn, Hans Peter
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