Institutional responsibility and third space professionals: a call for structural change to embrace ambiguity by Evonne Irwin

“… Third space professionals have occupied ambiguous spaces in higher education hierarchies for decades. While this positioning can be fruitful and lead to creative solutions and responses for our institutions in challenging times, third space professionals, by and large, remain structurally marginalised, with limited or unclear access to rewards, recognition and career progression. …”
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Power Abuse in Child Sexual Abuse in Indonesia by Kanya Eka Santi

“…Framed within Michel Foucault’s theory, the power dynamics in these cases encompass hierarchies, normalization of violence, and discursive control. …”
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The benefits of being between (many) fields: Mapping the high-dimensional space of AI research by Glen Berman, Kate Williams, Eliel Cohen

“…Through interviews (n = 90) with academics affiliated with AI-branded research organisations in the US, UK, and Australia, the article develops an empirical account of the construction of AI research as a high-dimensional field – a field that moves between multiple disciplinary and sectoral boundaries across national and international hierarchies. The article draws on the sociology of expertise and studies of research infrastructures to develop the conceptual frame of dimensionality to explain the vertical and horizontal dynamics informing the AI field's development. …”
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« Conquérir la galère. » Espace public et discipline de l’intime chez des femmes sans papiers en Île-de-France by Joanne Le Bars

“…Illegalisation shapes and reshapes racial, gender and class hierarchies. The confrontation with a devalued objective and subjective position requires them to maintain a respectable femininity in the public arena. …”
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La valeur du corps saint d’après les Vitae des mulieres religiosas des Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini delle Stelle

“…This is the case with a Cistercian lay brother such as Arnulf of Villers, while the choir monks or preacher do not share this spiritual model, which shifts the issue of the price assessement of the holy body from gender to religious status and thereby allows to consider in a new light medieval social hierarchies set by the Church as well as the role played by the body.…”
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Feminist Research into Gendered Violence by Elisabet Le Roux, Selina Palm

“…The article concludes by emphasizing the extraordinary disruptive power of the PhotoVOICE 2.0 method in subverting existing hierarchies of knowledge and control and highlighting its continued evolution in new settings. …”
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Penser au singulier [1984] by Éric de Dampierre

“…— ou du monde — confirme ces êtres dans leur hiérarchie, qui est leur lien ; que tout ce qui n’est pas constitué tel est désordre du monde et, littéralement, vain ; que l’action de l’homme peut seule instituer l’identité, composer avec les différences et, de surcroît, donner aux conséquences un sens.…”
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Thrown to the (Were)Wolves: Sisterhood, Vengeance, and Liberal Feminism in Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Lisa Sterle’s <i>Squad</i> by Jessica Caravaggio

“…The book critiques individualistic Western/liberal feminism—an ideology also critiqued by contemporary feminist writers—that encourages women and girls to gain power for themselves and then use it to perpetuate hierarchies of domination. Through an analysis of the figure of the werewolf and fantasies of revenge, this article suggests that both <i>Squad</i>’s narrative and its comic images guide readers toward an understanding of how liberal feminist ideology impedes collective empowerment. …”
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The Possibility and Utility of Religious Science in Nasr’s Discourse of Traditionalism by Mohammadreza Khakigharamaleki

“…To him, the characteristics of divine sciences are: disassociation between metaphysical dimension and the physical dimension, longitudinal outlook towards the hierarchies of universe, symbolism, traditional scientific language, and avoiding utilitarian outlook. …”
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Institutionalization at Universities: Case Study of the Focal Institution and the Spawning Institutions by İnci Öztürk, Ali Balcı

“…According to research results, faculty members create hierarchies based on academic titles. Conflicts among faculty members in spawning faculties are resolved within the department by “arbitration.” …”
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David Lynch’s Los Angeles: Control and Liberation through the Cinematic Image by Jakob Jurisch

“…Lynch’s cinematic outings, such as the neo-noir Lost Highway (1997), the acclaimed Hollywood fantasy Mulholland Drive (2001), and the experimental nightmare Inland Empire (2006), are all set in the heart of the film industry, in Los Angeles, and reveal his most ambitious vision yet: to examine the hierarchies of images in American pop-culture, providing a space in which dreams and nightmares routinely, yet subtly, intersect. …”
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Beyond the Male Stereotype: Complicating Female Geek and Nerd Figures in Contemporary US Comedy Series by Ankita Dolai

“…The “nerd” or “geek” in US-American film and television has been a popular mainstay to represent distinct social hierarchies. This article aims to highlight the emergence of engaging and relatable female nerds and geeks that subvert the stereotypes associated with such figures in comedy TV series and sitcoms. …”
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Les marmites du Bayt al-mâl d’Alger. Charité, pouvoir et droits d’appartenance à l’époque ottomane by Isabelle Grangaud

“…Indeed, these practices were the place and object of rallies, submissions and reciprocal obligations; they organised powers, affiliations, hierarchies and thresholds of insertion within these social bodies. …”
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Joan W. Scott : écrire l’histoire, de Foucault à la psychanalyse by Thamy Ayouch

“…This “Foucault turn” launched a history of difference, that aims to analyse the elements that form the basis of distinctions, hierarchies and conflicts and to question, more than only to describe, the foundations of nature, culture, religion, race or ethnicity. …”
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Symmetry breaking organizes the brain’s resting state manifold by Jan Fousek, Giovanni Rabuffo, Kashyap Gudibanda, Hiba Sheheitli, Spase Petkoski, Viktor Jirsa

“…When aggregated across cortical hierarchies, these match the profiles from empirical data. …”
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Engaging the Mechanisms of Faith? by Selina Palm, Carola Eyber

“…Its findings show many ways in which religion’s spiritual capital can either help place children at society’s centre or can support harmful hierarchies of power that enable violence against children and seek to resist positive change. …”
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Muerte, muertos y “llanto” palero by Ana Stela de Almeida Cunha

“…The paper offers a detailed description of the funeral ceremonies of palo monte and also highlights religious plurality, the delicate hierarchies that this implies, the transition from one practice to another—reflecting the lives of deceased paleros—as well as the dynamics of creativity at work. …”
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Hybrydowość kulturowa w przestrzeniach wielokulturowych by Börries Kuzmany

“…This paper argues that despite manifold social, linguistic, religious and national borders and hierarchies being omnipresent, these fractures also interconnected the hybrid cultural space of Galicia. …”
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Querelle de minarets en Égypte. Le débat public sur l’appel à la prière by Iman Farag

“…Its announcement however, produced a rich and problematic debate, in which antagonistic opinions shared the same references but were organized in different hierarchies. This article examines the debate from several angles: in form and in content, indissociably, the problem of debate structure is presented as a transformative variable: the respective roles of media choice and the increasing participation of anonymous contributors, represent a challenge for the analyst, and finally, the limits of free speech, which more often depend upon the inconstant vigilance of the morality police than upon defined limits. …”
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Diaspora and postmodern fecundity by Bishnupriya Ghosh, Bhaskar Sarkar

“…Simultaneously, the antifoundational dismantling of epistemological hierarchies release long-repressed energies that create new flows and open up fresh possibilities. …”
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