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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Uselessness"”.
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Poverty, Social Isolation, Uselessness, and Loneliness: The Fears and Anxieties of 19th-Century British Governesses
… Britain: poverty and social isolation, uselessness/redundancy, and a life of loneliness. Through looking at <em>Emma, Jane Eyre, </em>and <em>The Turn of the Screw, </em>novels which span the century (their publication dates ranging from 1814-1898), and comparing them to the historical …
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Patriot, Pet, and Pest: America Debates the Dog's Worth During World War I
… war effort or seemed to subvert it through their uselessness as companion animals and their predation as feral ones. Ultimately, even worsening conditions on the homefront could not cause the American public as a whole to consider surrendering its affection for these animals, including the …
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Quelles sont les ressources que les chômeurs mobilisent pour défendre ce qu’ils identifient comme étant leurs intérêts ?
… way of life of unemployed persons (feeling of uselessness, financial difficulties, boredom, social isolation, etc.) generate, according to the individuals social contexts and trajectories of life, either a brake or fuel towards the constitution of a protest movement. Our study, also shows, by …
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Parameters of Spooning: In the Site of Possibility
… pushing this form further and further into ‘uselessness.’ These spoons—in ceramic, wood, metal, bronze, and woven natural materials—investigate failure as a queer possibility for transformation and growth. Through the queering of the spoon, I reimagine their purpose and transcend traditional …
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The dimensions and correlates of respondent burden in personal interviews
… respondent burden were identified: 1. Perceived Uselessness, which loaded on variables relating to the interest, importance, and general benefits of survey participation, and views about the ability of survey participants to affect government decisions. This factor is the most important, …
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The Experience of Illuminating Organisational Culture from a Systems Psychodynamic Perspective
… as the organisation unconsciously processing the uselessness and guilt which arises for their surgeon members around death in surgery so they can continue to operate. This research has innovatively applied IPA to researcher narrative as a means to access and interpret researcher …
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Demanding energy in everyday life: Insights from wood heating into theories of social practice
… in human action, questions of inconvenience, uselessness, and ineffectiveness are less frequently touched upon. Highlighting the material and temporal aspects of practice extends questions of practicality and 'doability', which are often stressed in practice theory, to include evaluative, …
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Time, Self, and the Other in a Rural Chinese Township
… between moment and purposiveness, utility and uselessness, transience and eternity, waste and acquisition, work and play, while proposing rhythm as the ground for reconciliation between them. Last but not least, it sheds light on a locally prominent model of pleasurable living that has so far …
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Al vorde del olvido
Esta investigación desarrolla una genealogía poética, crítica y sensorial del sueño, entendiendo el soñar como una experiencia encarnada, colectiva y artística. Desde una mirada transdisciplinar, recorre su historia cultural y sus vínculos con el arte, la música, el cuerpo y el conocimiento no …