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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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O ideal de Baudelaire por Walter Benjamin Baudelaire's ideal by Walter Benjamin

Trans/Form/Ação, 2008
O artigo examina a interpretação feita por Walter Benjamin dos poemas de Charles Baudelaire marcados pela noção de ideal, a qual se opõe ao spleen. Benjamin encontra aí o esforço de rememoração de uma experiência plena, a qual constituiria, por sua vez ...
Luciano Ferreira Gatti
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
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Walter Benjamin e a experiência infantil: contribuições para a educação infantil

Pro-Posições, 2015
Resumo Este estudo tem como eixo norteador a teoria crítica da cultura e da modernidade de Walter Benjamin. Partindo da polissemia do conceito de experiência no texto benjaminiano, o autor busca elementos conceituais que auxiliem na elaboração da noção ...
Sandro Vinicius Sales dos Santos
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
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Running towards: Labour market incentives for runaway slaves in the British Cape Colony, 1830–1838

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent scholarship on slave escapes has increasingly emphasised economic motivation, but few studies have empirically investigated how market incentives influenced the decision‐making of enslaved individuals during transitions from coerced to wage labour.
Karl Bergemann, Gabriel Brown, Johan Fourie   +2 more
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A violência de Sócrates

Reflexão, 2015
Walter Benjamin discorda daqueles que acreditam que a morte de Sócrates tem o mesmo estatuto do ato trágico. Este artigo faz uma análise do ensaio de juventude “Sócrates” (1916) a partir da concepção benjaminiana de linguagem, na qual o silêncio é o ...
Wilson Antonio Frezzatti Jr.
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A cidade marginal e seus invisíveis

Acervo
Este artigo tem por objetivo realizar uma leitura da sociedade moscovita pós-revolucionária, analisando, a partir dos relatos contidos no Diário de Moscou, escritos por Walter Benjamin no período entre 6 de dezembro de 1926 e o fim de janeiro de 1927, as
Alessandro Gomes Enoque, Luiz Alex Silva Saraiva   +1 more
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Nimbus. Nota sulla questione dell’«aura» in Ludwig Klages

Rivista di Estetica, 2013
In this paper the author reconstructs the Klagesian positions that, according to him, have possibly inspired Walter Benjamin in his reflection on “aura”.
Giampiero Moretti
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Status of ash (Fraxinus spp.) in mixed hardwood post‐outbreak forests near the epicentre of the emerald ash borer invasion

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
The persistence and health of ash populations were characterized in post‐outbreak forests near the epicentre of the emerald ash borer (EAB) invasion in North America. Regenerating ash remained abundant, but densities of understory ash were higher in wetlands (hydric), while ash remained at the seedling stage in riparian (mesic) and upland (xeric ...
Aaron Tayal, Kayla I. Perry
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