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Published: 27 June 2024
... of the contentious politics in the first decades of this century, as technological change continues to trigger cultural, economic, and legal disruption. A remarkable feature of the Brexit database is that much of its content has disappeared from the internet. This is consistent with the modus operandi...
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Consciousness and Disruption in Critical Postcolonial Feminism
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Zainab Batul Naqvi
Published: 25 January 2023
... and wider social context of legal responses in this area are considered. The second entails the challenging or disruption of dominant narratives and discourses to build alternative accounts of polygamy and complicate the current legal approaches to polygamy, which are rooted in colonialist orientalism...
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Disruption and resilience: new realities?
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David Dawson and Greg Marsden
Published: 16 October 2019
..., particularly in areas with lower congestion and fewer alternatives. By necessity travellers and businesses will develop their own adaptive strategies to both reduce exposure and create alternatives to disruptive events. Policies which promote greater localism, multi-modalism, flexibility in activity locations...
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(Re)Assembling Comparison
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Steven Lewis and Rebecca Spratt
Published: 30 January 2024
... through the lens of a different other. Rather than reducing uncertainty, PMAT instead sees comparison as an inherently disruptive activity, providing different opportunities for sensing things differently, and thus makes possible new ways of thinking, relating and doing. This is not to say that nothing...
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Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn
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Jean-Paul D. Addie and others
Published: 28 March 2024
..., infrastructural imaginaries, and temporalities of maintenance and repair. The chapter argues that centring time with the contemporary global ‘infrastructure turn’ enriches, extends, and challenges current work by posing critical questions in novel registers: disrupting neat teleological narratives; probing...
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Culturally mapping legacies of collaborative heritage projects
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Karen Smyth and others
Published: 05 April 2017
... Young Greg Clifford James Pearsall Derek intangible cultural heritage UNESCO cultural mapping toolkit DIY mapping toolkit heritage DIY mapping toolkit mind maps storytelling stories as maps emergent practice disruption serendipity anthologies miscellanies coproduction heritage...
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Published: 12 July 2021
... abandonment of activities and roles. This could be linked to a sense of finitude and could involve fundamental re-thinking about one’s self, or a sense of biographical disruption. This was often so even when disablement (and greater disablement) occurred gradually and at a stage in life when the participants...
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Impact and Refusal
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Teresa Piacentini
Published: 31 May 2024
... possibilities and rewards as mechanisms of disruption and interruption, as well as of reimagining the doing and delivery of impact. It argues that we need careful engagement with the knotty ethical and political questions of impact in our pedagogic practice and the relationalities it centres and sidelines...
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Conclusion: Gender, Place and Affect
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Ruth Simpson and Alex Simpson
Published: 30 July 2024
...This concluding chapter draws the different strands from our 14 chapters together to throw further light on our organizing themes of attachment, disruption and belonging and how these key affective-geographical formations are imbued with gendered dynamics. It explores how chapters speak...
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Published online: 21 September 2023
Published in print: 16 January 2023
...The smart city discourse tends to ignore the cultural and spatial characteristics that define African cities. This book explores the notion of technology disruption through discussion of a series of urban practices in Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar and South Africa that use digital platforms...
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Mobility after an Immobility Turn
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David Cairns and Mara Clemente
Published: 14 March 2023
...The final chapter of this book returns to debates about the meaning of mobility and the ramifications of temporary suspensions of the freedom to move during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This disruption created imaginative challenges, making people think more critically about non...
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Introduction: Polygamy, Law and Women’s Lives
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Zainab Batul Naqvi
Published: 25 January 2023
.... The critical postcolonial feminist conceptual framework is set out along with the key tools of contextualising and disruption that are employed throughout the book to shed light on polygamy in English law and society. The critical race feminist-inspired methodology underpinning the book, which emphasises...
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The Dynamics of Forgiveness
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Aaron Pycroft and Clemens Bartollas
Published: 19 April 2022
... Stories Disruption Identity Memory Guilt Religion The starting point for redemption is forgiveness, which is the space of possibility where we actualize new possibilities for people through meeting them as they are in themselves. We take forgiveness as our starting point of action (arche ...
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Constructive ambiguity, market imaginaries and the penal voluntary sector in England and Wales
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Mary Corcoran and others
Published: 03 July 2020
...This chapter draws on research findings relating to voluntary sector adaptation to mixed markets in penal services, which coincided with the disruptions of austerity and dislocation in the wider social economy. Based on interviews with senior personnel in the voluntary sector, we demonstrate...
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Truncated opportunities: eliciting unheard voices on social evils
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Alice Mowlam and Chris Creegan
Published: 11 June 2009
... to have heard about the initiative and those least likely to take part without a specific attempt to reach them. Views about ‘social evil’ are discussed. The dominant themes raised in the discussion groups were: excessive use of drugs and alcohol; family disruption; decline of community; fear of crime...