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The Wider Subjectivities of Men in Reserved Occupations in Wartime Glasgow and Clydeside
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Alison Chand
Published: 01 August 2016
... World War. Arguably, however, men were often aware of these integral aspects of their subjectivities on an ‘imagined’ level, and many aspects of them were superseded by a pre-occupation with everyday living, also continuous and fundamentally unchanged by wartime.
In arguing for the continuity...
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The Oklahoma Nature Theater Is Recruiting
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Hélène Cixous
Published: 07 July 2011
... and indifference to ‘the rest’ of the world, the American viewpoint, and introduces the concepts of Saddamisation and ground zero. Finally, it describes everyday American culture as a ‘culture of fear’ and the Bushian spirit as a man hunter. The chapter also presents Cixous' reflections on America. America Kafka...
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Published: 01 February 2018
... Boevoe bratstvo environmentalism Greenpeace Immortal Regiment movement import substitution information warfare Night Wolves World Wildlife Foundation Blakkisrud Helge multi ethnic nation multinational empire Russia as ethnicisation of everyday patriotic practices ‘little motherland’ malaia...
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Published: 14 November 2007
...This chapter describes how music use often bridges the private and public spaces of young people's everyday lives, and how different technologies are often linked with different uses. It specifically covers the different uses of music media: private and public; intensive and casual; and alternative...
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Published: 08 September 2009
... everyday audiences Gauntlett David guilt Hill Annette Livingstone Sonia ethnography Hills Matt Philo Greg Pegg Simon Spaced Stevenson Jessica Galaxy Quest King Stephen Misery Ruddock Andy Shatner William Doane Mary Jancovich Mark Lyons James Metz Christian Elsaesser Thomas intimacy...
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Being-in-the-world
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Emma Simone
Published: 01 May 2017
... of the ‘everyday’, it is important to acknowledge what might initially appear to be a significant disanalogy in terms of their respective textual approaches to Being-in-the-world. While Heidegger’s understanding of average everydayness is principally concerned with the ways in which the individual’s practical...
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Jawanmardi: A Sufi Code of Honour
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Lloyd Ridgeon
Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 23 March 2011
...How did medieval Sufis express their system of everyday morality? Sufism attracts much attention in the West, yet its ethical dimension is often overlooked. Jawanmardi – a key element of Persian Sufism – was the ethic that encouraged the Sufi to put others before himself...
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Contemporary Serial Killers
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Bernice M. Murphy
Published: 31 August 2019
... Killer film Highmore Freddie Lowe Alice Pesce Nicolas Prevenge film Satrapi Marjane Voices The film Dyer Richard Good Me Bad Me Land Kind Worth Killing The Swanson Land Ali Skuse C J Swanson Peter Sweetpea Skuse crime procedurals male Gothic (ir)rational monsters everyday horrors true...
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‘Things That Should Be Short’: Perec, Sei Shōnagon, Twitter and the Uses of Banality
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Anthony McCosker and Rowan Wilken
Published: 01 April 2017
... . Perec identified in her work two specific elements that became crucial in his own writing: (1) an attentiveness to the inner workings of the everyday; and, (2) an appreciation of the uses and value of list-making. ‘Sei Shonagon does not sort; she lists and begins again. One theme sets off one list...
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The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog: Perec, Description and the Scene of Everyday Computer Use
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Rowan Wilken
Published: 01 April 2017
...This chapter takes up Georges Perec’s call to ‘question the habitual’ and applies it to the scene of everyday computer use. My questioning of habituated computer use is framed within a consideration, first, of human-computer interaction (HCI) research on skilled typing and, second, in relation...
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The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia
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Catherine Baker
Published: 30 April 2020
... Josip Broz World War II coloniality commemoration methodology policing digital media martyrdom activism film Islamism Paris War Vietnam slavery Croatia dress everyday fashion gender militarised masculinities nationalism In 2018, the record-breaking Croatian football team that reached...
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Everyday Writing in an Extraordinary City
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Ghenwa Hayek
Published: 01 June 2018
... noting that the disciplinary study of everyday life emerged from a postwar moment, and there is a recent move to think about the ordinary and what it might mean in societies that have experienced or undergone violence. 23 In postwar France, “a period during which the return … to everydayness...
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Published: 14 September 2023
...This Afterword reflects on the idea of virtue as “everyday dramaturgy,” the applied craft of living among others. The starting point of the discussion is a reconsidering of a deceptively simple question: what is virtue? In the course of reflecting on this question, two assertions...
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Published: 12 January 2024
.... Traditional conceptions of Judaism and common Judaism interpret Judean religion as almost wholly a matter of religious intellectualism and side line or ignore the religion of everyday social exchange and civic religion. But a critical reading of the literary sources, epigraphy, archaeology, and the cognitive...
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Everyday Style: Money/L’argent (Bresson 1983), The Seventh Continent/Der siebente Kontinent (Haneke 1989)
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Alison Taylor
Published: 30 October 2017
...Where chapter two deals with ordinary moments in extraordinary films, chapter three explores another aspect of the spectrum of the everyday in cinema: the concept of the everyday as a film style, and its relationship to the everyday as subject matter. This chapter examines the way the everyday...
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Return to the Everyday: I Stand Alone/Seul Contre Tous (Noé 1998), Michael (Schleinzer 2011)
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Alison Taylor
Published: 30 October 2017
...In contrast to the films examined in earlier chapters, which tend to culminate in events of violence, and end abruptly thereafter, chapter five turns to films which draw attention to the endurance of the everyday, and the persistence of violence within it. Gaspar Noé’s I Stand Alone ...
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No More Red Lines: Networking around the State in Jordan
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Deborah L. Wheeler
Published: 22 November 2017
... use play in promoting new levels of social and political awareness, and collective demands for change. These questions are considered in light of ethnographic insights and Internet user testimonials, which reveal subtle forms of empowerment and enhanced voice among citizens in the practice of everyday...
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Published online: 18 January 2018
Published in print: 15 November 2017
...Bringing three key issues - Ozu, everyday life and the modern Japanese history - into a unified discussion, The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro re-examines the renowned film director Ozu Yasujiro and his films from a socio-historical point of view to present a more contextualised contour...
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Published: 16 February 2021
..., which investigates where we can find the essence of cinematic illusion when we look into everyday life and what happens when we use everyday situations, objects, spaces and actions as cinematographic mechanisms. This question leads to multiple observations of everyday life and experimentation therein...
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Liminal Spaces and Spiritual Practice in Naomi Mitchison, Keri Hulme and Lorna Goodison
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Elizabeth Anderson
Published: 10 January 2023
... Jane Ellen Alexandria Hurston Zora Neale Silko Leslie Marmon Naomi Mitchison Keri Hulme Lorna Goodison ritual everyday spirituality material religion Jane Harrison spatiality has become increasingly important to modernist studies (as to literary studies more broadly), but space...