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Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror

, 2012
Blending concepts from \u27dramatism\u27 such as \u27victimage ritual\u27 with Foucault\u27s approach to modern power and knowledge regimes, this book presents a novel and illuminating perspective on political power and domination resulting from the ...
Blain, Michael
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Emotional nourishment begets academic coping during the primary to secondary school transition

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The transition from primary to secondary school is widely viewed as the most demanding in a child's educational journey. Despite a wealth of research on this transition, little is known about the children's ‘lived experience’ of it across different contexts.
Peter Wood, Dave Putwain, Pedro Freitas Fernandes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le passage de la frontière

Ateliers d'Anthropologie, 2012
For three ethnic groups that practiced capture war (Aztecs, Iroquois and Tupinamba), the ritual that started with capture and continued beyond the execution served to assimilate the prisoner with his conqueror, the Other with the Self.
Claude François Baudez
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Between Religion and Honor: Charles Colcock Jones and a Discussion of Antebellum Southern Values

, 2005
The ethic of honor among Southern white men encouraged violence, excess, and public displays of manhood. Conversely, evangelical religion compelled Christians toward abstinence and self-control, ideas usually incompatible with the expectations of honor ...
Howard, Jonathan
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‘Sometimes, I would look at my books and cry because I felt like I was left behind’: Understanding the learning of Indigenous girls during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the districts of Chongwe and Solwezi in Zambia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Grounded in principles of epistemic justice, this article examines the educational impacts of Zambia's COVID‐19 school closures on Indigenous girls in two districts and highlights community‐led pathways for resilience. National responses prioritised broadcast and digital delivery but presupposed access to electricity, digital devices and ...
Marcellus Forh Mbah, Leigh Jarvis, Ane Turner Johnson, Chidi Ezegwu, Priscillah Nsama, Austine Nakanga   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Leader and the Mass: The Political Body and the Power of Rhetorics

Between, 2014
We can structure the relationship between the mass and the leader as a seduction, as an erotic ritual. This erotic ritual functions through a scheme (boy meets girl) that we can consider as  a starting point to define the nature of the mass when is ...
Lorenzo Gramatica
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The seduction of football: Youth and sport for development and peace in post-conflict Liberia [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.This thesis considers Liberian youth and the concept of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP).
Collison, Holly Lindsay
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

«Gli spiriti non conoscono le lanterne solari!». Cosmologie energetiche, conflitti generazionali e rinegoziazioni in Acholiland

Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo
Based on conversations with elders from Gulu city, Northern Uganda, this study explores the discursive field of material and symbolic transformations in the relationship with energy of the urban acholi community.
Amarilli Varesio
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First World War Memorials, Commemoration and Community in North East England, 1918-1939 [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis examines how local variations in economic, political, social, cultural and religious circumstances influenced First World War remembrance in the North East between the wars. It is divided into two parts.
COSS, DENISE
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