Prosumer Neo-Tribes: An Ethnography of Recreational Cycling Communities by Kübra Aşan, Medet Yolal

“…AbstractIn postmodern community studies, a neo-tribal theoretical framework has been proposed to elucidate recreational and touristic communities, positing that neo-tribes coalesce around shared consumer experiences. …”
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Imitatio Christi and the holy folly of divine violence: the church as ultimate criminal by J. A. Meylahn

“…If the Christ event is read as an exemplary narrative of the post-metaphysics in the linguistic turn in the work of Derrida, this opens up new possibilities for both theology as well as the role of the church within the context of a postmodern world, and these possibilities will be explored. …”
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Practice of Physical Activity through Active Video Games in Addressing Obesity in Pediatric Ages by Brian Johan Bustos Viviescas, Carlos Enrique García Yerena, Carlos Alberto Romero Cuestas

“…These proposals constitute postmodern alternatives that motivate a change in sedentary behaviors to consolidate healthy lifestyle habits. …”
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Dini ve Manevi Eğitimin Öyküsel Pedagojisi by Clive Erricker

“…Öyküsel pedagojiler yapısalcı ve postmodern teorilere dayandığı için, eğitimin özünde modernist müfredat modelleriyle gerilim içindedir. …”
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The Inevitability of Absurdity, or Collective Trance in Boogie-woogie Rhythm: Tom Stoppard’s Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on the Stage of the Old Theatre of Vilnius by Natalia Maliutina

“…The audience’s attention is focused on finding and establishing connections between different elements of the performance, which resembles postmodern bricolage. The symbolic imagery of the production evokes a number of contexts among which the most expressive are mystery-metaphysical and grotesque-visional ones. …”
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“¿Qué es eso del amor?” La transformación del concepto del amor en el contexto de la pandemia en Medellín by Germán Darío Hernández Zuluaga, Miguel Paradela López, José Miguel Blanco Sánchez

“…The main purpose of this research article was to recognize the conceptions of love and its transformations in the postmodern pandemic scenario in the city of Medellín, Colombia. …”
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L’usure iconique. Circulation et valeur des images dans le cinéma américain contemporain by Mathias Kusnierz

“…Postmodern Hollywood cinema has been characterized as a highly reflexive art, in which images refer to other images or to themselves—not to the world. …”
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Science, Linguistique, Littérature : trois disciplines, deux discours, une culture by Sandrine SORLIN

“…The simultaneous birth of chaos theory in science and postmodern aestheticism in literature in the 70s for instance can only be accounted for if we think of them as belonging to the same culture, which, at some point, brought about a change in paradigm that informed all disciplines. …”
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Market as Religion: The Dynamics of Business Network in Megachurches by Roberto Bazanini, Celso Machado

“…Contemporaneously, in market view, the market of symbolic goods of religion is characterized by the pluralism of options that the postmodern individual has to join religious institutions. …”
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Music’s Vibratory Enchantments and Epistemic Injustices. Reflecting on Thirty Years of Feminist Thought in Music Theory by Judy Lochhead

“…Since the 1990s various postmodern and post-structuralist perspectives have brought about changes of content – what music is considered – and methodology, including a consideration of music’s “magical” powers. …”
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“Nothing could stop it, nothing”: The Burden of Postsouthern History in Barry Hannah’s “Uncle High Lonesome” by Clare Chadd

“…In proposing that Hannah’s story is tenaciously southern even while it highlights the ways in which the South is mediated and performed, this paper argues that the story offers a creative response to the notion that the regional and the postmodern exist in simple opposition.…”
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Inside Paul Auster’s Crypt: Autobiography and Spectrality in Ghosts by Giorgos GIANNAKOPOULOS

“…Reflecting and complicating his own autobiographical writing, Auster’s early novel assumes the form of a postmodern detective story playing on the motif of criticism that views the criminal as author and the detective as reader while rendering both roles unstable and interchangeable. …”
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The Question of Metropolitan Form: Introduction by David Prosperi, Anne Vernez Moudon, François Claessens

“…Many of the papers in this issue begin with the straw-man notion of a formless agglomeration of activities and spaces, the – for lack of a better phrase – postmodern urban experience.[1] There is a persistent theme in the related literatures of architecture, urban design and urban and regional planning that the physical form of the contemporary metropolis is un-describable. …”
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Die ontwikkeling van 'n strategiese gemeentelike ekklesiologie - op pad na 'n missionerende bedieningspraxis by G. Smit

“… This article focuses on developing a theory of ministry praxis that moves from uniform  practices to the reflecting of diversity in a time of paradigm shift to the postmodern paradigm. Attention is paid to the ministry practices of the reformed tradition. …”
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Eliot’s Modernist Manifesto by Viorica Patea

“…Although no longer an orthodoxy in our postmodern era, Eliot’s essay continues to influence current critical debates. …”
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Writing Against Culture with Online Poker by Jukka Jouhki

“…It suggests a highly competitive recreational venture, a postmodern Darwinist challenge. …”
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Le spectacle de plein air dans les sites paysagers remarquables des montagnes chinoises : le cas du Renard du Mont Tianmen à Zhangjiajie, entre réinvention d’une tradition et mise... by Wei Xiang, Philippe Bachimon, Pierre Dérioz

“…A kitsch ‘mass’ show, it constitutes both a commercial reality of a new China and the postmodern modality of a cultural approach inherited from an official socialist discourse that is today legitimizing its actions by attaching itself to tradition.…”
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Outdoor Theatrical Shows in the Remarkable Landscapes of the Chinese Mountains, Between Reinvention of a Tradition and Development of Tourism: the Example of the ‘Tianmen Fox Fairy... by Wei Xiang, Philippe Bachimon, Pierre Dérioz

“…A kitsch ‘mass’ show, it constitutes both a commercial reality of a new China and the postmodern modality of a cultural approach inherited from an official socialist discourse that is today legitimizing its actions by attaching itself to tradition.…”
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Unwanted, rejected, unaccepted: around the problem of “invisible” Romani and Dom children in Georgia by Urszula Markowska-Manista

“…With regard to social representations, Roma and Dom children can be included in the category of “street children”, children “out of place”, “invisible” children, and children remaining “at the crossroads” of tradition and postmodernity. A portrayal of the situation of Roma and Dom minorities in Georgia reveals the reality of children in big city environments as well as the dimensions of their social exclusion and poverty. …”
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The crisis of the concept of society: historiosophical and sociological search by Irena Eglė Laumenskaitė

“…The problem consists of a simultaneous adequate response to the challenge of postmodernity. The postmodernity itself breaks the correspondence of "social physics" (organizational structures) with "social metaphysics" (system of values) as it produces a pluralistic (not hierarchical) "metaphysics" while keeping a hierarchy in "physics," where the subordination of the individual to the social structures is even stronger than in the era of modernity. …”
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