The Heritage-scape: Origins, Theoretical Interventions, and Critical Reception of a Model for Understanding UNESCO’s World Heritage Program by Michael A. Di Giovine

“…Including personal background stories that paint a picture of the intellectual origins and inspirations for the term, the article discusses the theory behind the heritage-scape, the concept’s contribution to the literature, and its reception by tourism and heritage theorists. As a theoretical buzzword meant to describe a particular, utopian model of the geopolitical order, it has nevertheless taken on a life of its own, and the article addresses some of the misconceptions, as well as clarifications made by the author, during the course of the last decade. …”
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From Epiphylogenesis to General Organology by Robert Alexander Gorny, Andrej Radman

“…In line with feminist and decolonial theorists like Claire Colebrook and Kathryn Yusoff, it foregrounds that there has never been such a thing as ‘the human’. …”
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Between Destructiveness and Vitalism: Simmel’s Sociology of Crowds by Christian Borch

“…The aim of the article is (1) to demonstrate the importance Simmel ascribed to the crowd topic, (2) to illustrate how his early view on crowds was inspired by the work of the major crowd theorists of his time, and (3) to reconstruct a vitalist image of crowds from Simmel’s later thought. …”
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“Just Fabric”: The Becoming Black of the (Post)Human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) by Agnibha Banerjee

“…Drawing on Mbembe and other theorists, I demonstrate how the historical objectification and exploitation of black bodies expand to encompass the entire planet, with androids, genetically modified humans, and the earth itself functioning as sites of mining and extraction.…”
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Zu einigen Paradigmen musiktheoretischen Denkens der 1920er Jahre by Felix Wörner

“…As the article shows, this concerns parameters such as harmony, melody, and analysis as well as basic categories such as musical 'space'. In this context, theorists assign a prominent position to the category of (musical) listening.…”
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Researching in prison education-spaces: Thinking-with Posthuman, Post Qualitative, Feminist Materialism ‘beings’ to disentangle methodology. by Lucy Harding

“…In being-with these concepts, I trace the influences of philosophers and theorists in these practices, including the work of Deleuze & Guattari, Braidotti, Barad, Haraway, Manning, St. …”
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Azerbaijan-Türkiye Relations in the Context of Security Community: One Nation, Two States by Zehra Karayel

“…This paper will evaluate the recent developments between the two countries using the case analysis method in light of the criteria these security community theorists developed and determine its place in security community classification. …”
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Partycypacyjny wymiar antypolityki – od modelu do badań empirycznych by Jacek Ziółkowski

“…The text also aims to present and popularise research on anti-politics among Polish researchers and highlight the potential role of political theorists in these studies. …”
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How to Analyze and Enhance Participation in Electronic Networks of Practice by Charkhsaz Fatemeh, Isaai Mohammad Taghi, Dayani Malihe

“…The study’s insights are vital for practitioners and theorists by offering a perspective on fostering knowledge sharing.…”
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Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Position, implementation and significance by Arsić Katarina

“…At the end, taking into account the current political and social circumstances in international relations and the opinions of international law theorists, we will try to answer the question why this treaty is still important, because nuclear weapons are the tool may be played by nuclear powers, especially in terms of their potential use in the case of self-defence.…”
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An Investigation into the Critical Attitudes of Iranian EFL Students toward English Language Learning in Iran: An Introspective Longitudinal Study by Mojtaba Maghsoudi, Abolfazl Khodamoradi, Seyed Hassan Talebi

“…In the mid-twentieth century, critical pedagogy was at the forefront of educational theorists’ focus, and curriculum designers sought to combine critical pedagogy practices with university curricula. …”
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Negotiating Gendered Leadership Positions within African Initiated Christian Churches in Amsterdam by Justice R.K.O. Kyei, Elizabeth N.M.K. Yalley, Emmanuel K.E. Antwi

“… Our research contributes to the discussion of feminist theorists on how the dominance of women in religious communities is not reflected in leadership positions of women. …”
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NEWCOMBO PROBLEMA IR AMERIKIETIŠKAS KLAUSIMAS by Zenonas Norkus

“…So the actor's rationality or its absence is the common cause of actor's "bad news, small benefit" choices and of Predictor's predictions who is discriminating against the bright actors (including all causal decision theorists, of course) by providing for them no opportunity to avoid undesirable state. …”
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NEWCOMBO PROBLEMA IR AMERIKIETIŠKAS KLAUSIMAS by Zenonas Norkus

“…So the actor's rationality or its absence is the common cause of actor's "bad news, small benefit" choices and of Predictor's predictions who is discriminating against the bright actors (including all causal decision theorists, of course) by providing for them no opportunity to avoid undesirable state. …”
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Developing ‘Happiness Engineering’ Subject for the Schools in India: Designing the Pedagogical Framework for a Sustainable Happiness Curriculum by Ashraf Alam, Atasi Mohanty

“…Experiences of 129 experts from India that included senior secondary school teachers, school counsellors, pedagogical scientists, learning theorists, health experts, people from NGOs, and professors of education, were used to modify and contextualize the prepared curriculum framework for the ‘Happiness Engineering’ subject to effectively cater the needs of Indian senior secondary school students. …”
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Cinematic Mythmaking in Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return and The Banishment by Louis Samuel Mealing

“…Since his debut feature The Return (2003), Andrey Zvyagintsev's films have drawn focus from film critics and theorists seeking to investigate a contextual analysis or the director's religious allusions. …”
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Ethnomethodology and the study of online communities

“…We will discuss how computer-mediated interaction, or telelogic communication, as it has been characterized by a number of theorists (<a href="#oga">Ogan, 1993</a>; <a href="#bal">Ball-Rokeach &amp</a>; <a href="#rea">Reardon, 1988</a>), can be analyzed to contribute to phenomenological or ethnographic understandings of what it means to be a member of a cyber-community. …”
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Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

“… The essay investigates if and how Greco-Roman theorists attempted to motivate altruistic behaviour and devise a social-welfare ethics. …”
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Decolonisation, Globalisation and South Africa 1 by Liepollo Pheko

“…It explores the logic of racialised colonialism and its impact on South Africa and draws on the works of decolonial theorists of the twentieth-century anti-imperialist era.…”
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Fashion meets journalism: Mapping and evaluating Australian fashion media by Wylie Shannon

“…What little work has been done, however, has allowed theorists to explore how magazines promote feminism and form culture, which acts as a step in concreting fashion’s importance theoretically. …”
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