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Gothic London: On the Capital of Urban Fantasy in Neil Gaiman, China Miéville and Peter Ackroyd
Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2017 There are good reasons to call London the capital of urban fantasy. Like no other city it embodies an intertwinedness of enlightenment and modernity with notions of the occult, the mythical and the magical. The idea of an urban underworld that somehow is
Arno Meteling
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Creatio Fantastica, 2017 The article Society, Individual, and Alienness in the Context of Modernity and Liquid Modernity. The analysis of Guillermo del Toro’s „The Shape of Water” Inspired by Zygmunt Bauman’s Thought analyses Guillermo del Toro’s eponymous movie, addressing ...
Wiktor Magdziarz
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette +5 more
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Remades and their Sociospace in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy
Between, 2022 The aim of the present paper is to consider Remades (posthuman figures who populate China Miéville’s “Bas-Lag trilogy”) as simulacra of their social milieu, highlighting the interconnection of power and economic systems which shapes the “remaking ...
Camilla Del Grazia
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular economy (CE) and social entrepreneurship (SE) are increasingly recognised as critical pathways for sustainable development, yet CE research often underplays social inclusion, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs).
Maria L. Granados, Adeyemi Adelekan
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate environmental communication has become an essential aspect of modern business practices, as stakeholders increasingly demand transparency and accountability regarding sustainability efforts. Within this context, we examine whether firms use environmental communication on X/Twitter to offset weaker relative environmental performance ...
Ivan Russo +3 more
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„Późne lato” Johna Crowleya jako postmodernistyczna wizja procesualnej koncepcji tożsamości
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 The article John Crowley’s “Engine Summer”: A Postmodern Vision of the Processual Construction of Identity analyses the eponymous novel as pivoted around the narrative’s role in constructing both individual and collective identity. Drawing from Mieke Bal’
Małgorzata Gancarczyk
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Classroom boundaries and teacher agency: Challenges of implementing Ireland's new primary curriculum
The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article reports on a doctoral study examining teacher agency in one Irish primary school at a timely moment ahead of the implementation of the new Primary Curriculum Framework in September 2025. The framework embeds teacher agency as a central professional principle, yet findings from this study reveal a more cautious and bounded reality.
Máiréad Nally +2 more
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Trials and Tribulations in London Below
Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2017 Neil Gaiman is a highly acclaimed British author of novels, short fiction, film scripts, graphic novels, and radio plays. His first novel, Neverwhere, was his attempt to fill in the blanks left by the television series with the same name, by writing down
Irina Rață
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Countryside Fantasy in the Context of Urban-Rural Divided post-Mao China [PDF]
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, 2017 This paper focuses on an urban-rural experimental reality television show, The Exchange Programme. Within the context of the contradictions and struggles between capitalism and socialism currently faced by the Chinese government, I argue the programme’s ...
Cheng Han
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